# Snowflake

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/snowflake
- **Category:** Data Warehouse Software
- **Homepage:** https://www.snowflake.com
- **Also known as:** snowflake
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01T16:08:50.997Z

## Vioscale score

**68.6 / 100**, confidence 49% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 8 | 640 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 30 | 1500 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 45.8 | 12 | 549.8 | ✓ |
| integrations | 0 | 16 | 0 | - |
| security_posture | 85 | 22 | 1870 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-01, [verify at source](https://www.snowflake.com). Independently observed._

from $2/mo · Usage-based · Free tier

> From $2.00 per credit for compute + $23.00 per TB/month for storage. Consumption-based model with free tier.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Standard | $2.00 per credit | - | - |
| Enterprise | $3.00 per credit | - | - |
| Business Critical | $4.00 per credit | - | - |
| Virtual Private Snowflake | Contact sales | - | - |

### 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 sales)

Completely separate Snowflake environment isolated from other accounts

- All Business Critical Edition features
- Isolated environment

### Add-ons

- **On-Demand Storage** ($23 per TB)

## About

Fully managed cloud data platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Data Warehouse Software. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Deployment** | |
| Deployment | Managed cloud |
| **Architecture** | |
| Architecture | - |
| Compute model | Clusters |
| **Query** | |
| SQL dialect | - |
| **Interoperability** | |
| Table-format support | - |
| **Scale** | |
| Concurrency scaling | - |
| **Ingestion** | |
| Streaming ingest | - |
| **Data model** | |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | First-class |
| **Analytics** | |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ |
| **Sharing** | |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ |
| **Query** | |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | - |
| **Licensing** | |
| Licence class | Proprietary |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com) | 2026-08-01 | 48% (low) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://www.snowflake.com) | 2026-08-01 | 80% (high) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://www.snowflake.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 2 | [link](https://www.snowflake.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.snowflake.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| security.fedramp | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |
| security.iso27001 | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |
| security.pci | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://www.snowflake.com/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/snowflake). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*