Snowflake Cortex AI costs are driven by credit consumption and your chosen service edition. For customers on AWS US East, credits are priced at $2 for Standard, $3 for Enterprise, and $4 for Business Critical tiers. Usage is paid on a consumption basis, meaning costs scale directly with your AI workload volume.
Storage costs represent a separate line item, priced at $23 per TB per month for on-demand users. Large-scale deployments often move to pre-paid capacity models, which may provide discounts on list prices for both storage and compute.
Verified pricing (official source)
| Plan / rate |
Verified price |
Unit |
Notes |
| Snowflake — Standard |
$2 |
usage based |
Price is per credit. Specifically for AWS platform in US East (Northern Virginia) region. |
| Snowflake — Enterprise |
$3 |
usage based |
Price is per credit. Specifically for AWS platform in US East (Northern Virginia) region. |
| Snowflake — Business Critical |
$4 |
usage based |
Price is per credit. Specifically for AWS platform in US East (Northern Virginia) region. |
| Snowflake — On-Demand Storage |
$23 |
other |
Price is per TB per month. Specifically for AWS platform in US East (Northern Virginia) region. Capacity stora |
| Snowflake — Virtual Private Snowflake |
Custom — contact sales |
usage based |
Contact Sales for pricing. |
Every price above was retrieved from the official vendor page. Plans without a published number are shown exactly as the vendor states them — never estimated.
Which Snowflake edition fits your AI strategy?
Your choice of edition dictates your baseline credit cost. The Enterprise edition, priced at $3 per credit, is the most common selection for high-growth organizations. If your AI applications process sensitive data in regulated industries, the Business Critical edition at $4 per credit provides the necessary compliance features. Virtual Private Snowflake options exist for total environment isolation but require a custom quote.
How should you budget for storage and capacity?
On-demand storage is billed at $23 per TB per month. For organizations with predictable data volumes, pre-paid capacity storage can reduce these costs. It is important to note that while credit prices for standard tiers are fixed per region, specific storage discounts and high-tier editions like Virtual Private Snowflake must be negotiated directly with sales.
Measuring the value of Cortex AI requires tracking credit spend against the manual hours saved by your data science and engineering teams. By establishing a baseline of pre-AI task duration, you can calculate the net return on every credit consumed. NetLift simplifies this by connecting your Snowflake usage data to business value metrics, ensuring AI adoption delivers a positive financial impact.
Sources
All pricing on this page comes from official vendor pages: