Overview of Managing Cost¶

Snowflake provides industry-leading features that allow you to successfully understand, control, and optimize your costs, so you can get the most value for your Snowflake spend.

In this Topic:

Cost Management Framework

All Snowflake costs are based on usage of compute, data storage, and data transfer:

To learn more, start by understanding your Snowflake cost.

Cost Management Framework¶

There are 3 pillars to successful Snowflake cost management:

Visibility - Understanding and monitoring spend.
Control - Putting guardrails in place to limit spend.
Optimization - Identifying and reducing inefficient spend.

Visibility¶

Snowflake offers a number of ways to understand, attribute, and monitor spend.

Use Case	Description	Features	Snowflake Edition
Understand	Get overall reporting on spending and drill down to usage and cost data for specific resources.	Usage page (Snowsight) Billing page (Classic web interface)	All
	Get granular, analytics-ready usage data to build custom reports or dashboards.	Account Usage Organization Usage Information Schema	All
Attribute	Architect an overall account structure for cost governance.	Organizations	All
	Create a chargeback model to attribute spending to a specific business unit or division.	Object Tagging	Enterprise Edition
Monitor	Set warehouse spending limits and get alerted when you are about to go over.	Resource Monitors	All

Control¶

Snowflake warehouses have auto-suspend and auto-resume enabled by default so you only pay for what you use. There are additional features that allow you even greater control of your warehouse costs.