What is Snowflake?
Fully managed cloud data platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Snowflake pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $2.00 per credit for compute + $23.00 per TB/month for storage. Consumption-based model with free tier.
Standard
Entry-level offering with core functionality
- Core platform functionality
- Fully managed elastic compute
- Automatic encryption of all data
- Snowpark
- Data sharing
- Optimized storage with compression
- Time Travel
Enterprise
Most popular offering for high-growth, large-scale customers
- All Standard Edition features
- Multi-cluster compute
- Granular governance and privacy controls
- Extended Time Travel windows
Business Critical
For highly regulated industries with sensitive data requirements
- All Enterprise Edition features
- Tri-Secret Secure
- Private connectivity access
- Failover and failback for disaster recovery
Virtual Private Snowflake
Contact salesCompletely separate Snowflake environment isolated from other accounts
- All Business Critical Edition features
- Isolated environment
Add-ons
- On-Demand Storage$23 per TB
What Snowflake does
The capabilities that matter for data warehouse software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Managed cloud
- Architecture
- -
- Compute model
- Clusters
- SQL dialect
- -
- Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
- -
- Table-format support
- -
- Concurrency scaling
- -
- Streaming ingest
- -
- Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
- First-class
- ML / in-DB functions
- ✓
- Data sharing / marketplace
- ✓
- Licence class
- Proprietary
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Snowflake alternatives
Other data warehouse software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- SingleStoreThe Real-Time AI Database for Enterprise. Answers Included.medium · 64%
- Apache IcebergThe open table format for analytic datasets.low · 34%
- Delta LakeBuild Lakehouses with Delta Lakelow · 41%
- DuckDBRun analytics where your data liveslow · 36%
- DremioThe Agentic Lakehouse for AI and Analyticsmedium · 63%
- DatabricksA unified platform for data, analytics and AIlow · 29%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Snowflake, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 85 | 22.00 | 1870.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 12.00 | 549.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"managed","data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"proprietary","semi_structured":"first_class"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |