Compare Snowflake, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift Serverless costs

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Your workload

Data stored (TB)· example

Data queried per month (TB per month)· example

Active compute hours per day (hours)· example

Active days per month (days)· example

Expected workload growth (% per month)

≈ 80% per year, compoundedApplied to data stored and query volume; compute stays as you entered it.

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Advanced assumptions

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Compression ratio for Snowflake and Redshift storage (times)· default

Snowflake X-Small warehouses while active (warehouses)· default

Redshift Serverless capacity while active (RPUs)· default

BigQuery free query allowance left for this workload (TiB per month)· default

BigQuery free storage allowance left for this workload (GiB)· default

What's included / excluded

Estimated cost of one analytical workload on each warehouse, with the sizing assumptions shown. Performance, throughput and latency are not assumed to be equal.

Included

Query compute you size for each platform
Stored data measured the way each platform bills it
Monthly free allowances you confirm

Not included

Data transfer and egress
Capacity, reserved or committed pricing
Serverless features and cloud-services charges
Replication, snapshots and backups
Taxes, negotiated discounts and credits
Performance, throughput or latency equivalence

Prices modeled: Snowflake · Standard X-Small · AWS US East (N. Virginia); BigQuery · on demand · Iowa (us-central1); Amazon Redshift Serverless · on demand · AWS US East (N. Virginia).

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Estimates are based on publicly available vendor pricing and the assumptions shown. Actual invoices may differ because of negotiated discounts, taxes, regional pricing, commitments, overages or product configuration.