Snowflake
snowflake.com · Compute, Storage · 4 records · JSON
- Snowflake ComputetrialemailcardDvolume-quota
- Snowflake 30-day trial ($400 credits) StoragetrialcardcardRretention-clamped
- Snowflake trial account (internal stage) Storagetrialemailno cardRdisagrees
- snowflake trial ($400 / 30 days) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
Snowflake Compute
trialemailcardDvolume-quota
| Free tier | Start your 30-day Snowflake trial with USD 400 in free credits. The documentation states: 'To sign up for a trial account, all you need is a valid email address; no payment information or other qualifying information is required.' AI features are disabled on a self-service trial account until a credit card is added. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; trial-credit |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | not applicable |
| Egress | not stated |
| Identity | email a valid email address only, with no payment information required at signup; AI features, external network access, hybrid tables and Openflow stay capped until a credit card is added |
| Limits |
at USD 2 a credit on AWS US East Standard and 1 credit an hour for an X-Small Gen1 warehouse, the USD 400 buys 200 warehouse-hours, which is 8.3 days of continuous running |
| Binding | volume-quota the 30-day clock ends the USD 400 before any usage ceiling is reached |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | USD 400 of Snowflake credit is a genuine warehouse for a month and is the standard route to loading a large public dataset once; nothing about it composes, because both the credit and the access end on the same day. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The balance is a warehouse budget, not a host. A 30-day trial cannot run even an X-Small warehouse continuously: 720 hours at 1 credit an hour is 720 credits, and USD 400 buys 200. Auto-suspend is the only sane setting. |
| Evidence rung | documented |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | signup.snowflake.com/ | quoted: 'Start your 30-day trial with $400 in free credits' |
| 2026-10-23 | docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/warehouses-overview | quoted X-Small row: '1 | 0.0003' credits per second, and 'The numbers in the preceding table refer to the first generation (Gen1)' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/ | the price table is client-side; the linked consumption table gives AWS US East Standard $2.00, Enterprise $3.00 per credit, effective 2026-10-15 |
More fields (3)
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Snowflake 30-day trial ($400 credits) Storage
trialcardcardRretention-clamped
| Free tier | $400 in free credits on a 30-day trial ('Start your 30-day Snowflake trial today. Get $400 in credits'). No byte quota — storage is billed from the credit balance. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | retention: 'Snowflake trial account credits may be used within 30 days'; 'If you don't upgrade before the trial period ends, the account is suspended and any unused free usage balance expires' and 'you may lose access to your data'. (30 days) |
| Egress | Data leaves via query results, not object GETs; no egress-free download path. |
| Identity | card derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: $400 in free credits on a 30-day trial ('Start your 30-day Snowflake trial today. Get $400 in credits'). No byte quota — s |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: internal stage file size limits apply. request-rate: warehouse credits burn while running. retention: 'Snowflake trial account credits may be used within 30 days'; 'If you don't upgrade before the trial period ends, the account is suspended and any unused free usage balance expires' and 'you may lose access to your data'. |
| Binding | retention-clamped a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | Snowflake SQL API / Snowpark; internal stages + GET/PUT for file transfer. No rclone backend; files sit inside stages or named internal stages, not a general object store. |
| Composes with | New email = new trial, explicitly ('you can sign up ... all you need is a valid email address; no payment information'). So $400 x N throwaway trials — but each dies at 30 days. |
| Reliability | Hard 30-day cliff with documented data loss on non-conversion. Not storage — a compute trial that happens to include stage space. |
| Notes | $400 in free credits on a 30-day trial ('Start your 30-day Snowflake trial today. Get $400 in credits'). No byte quota — storage is billed from the credit balance. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.snowflake.com/en/snowflake-trial/ | '$400 in free credits ... built for a 30-day experience'; 'credits may be used within 30 days' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account | 'the account is suspended and any unused free usage balance expires' |
| 2026-10-21 | withheld | probe: GET docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account -> 200; GET www.snowflake.com/en/snowflake-trial/ -> 200 |
More fields (1)
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"why": "$400 in free credits on a 30-day trial ('Start your 30-day Snowflake trial today. Get $400 in credits'). No byte quota — storage is billed from the credit balance.",
"retry_when": null,
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
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Snowflake trial account (internal stage) Storage
trialemailno cardRdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/snowflake-trialsays fails-quota, storage/snowflake-trial-account says trial-only
| Free tier | No byte quota — a $400 credit balance and a 30-day clock, whichever ends first. 'The trial continues for 30 days (from the sign-up date) or until you've depleted your free usage balance.' Storage accrues cost against that balance at standard rates (~$40/TB/month per the documented Standard rate). So the nominal free storage is whatever the credit buys after compute: at $40/TB/mo, $400 buys 10 TB-months, i.e. 10 TB for one month or 1 TB for ten. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | $40/TB/month storage after the trial (Standard). Above the wave-6 floor by ~8x. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | Not free. Snowflake bills egress/transfer separately and the trial credit is consumed by it. |
| Identity | email email |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | s3, rest rest + s3 |
| Tooling | Excellent: PUT to an internal stage, full SQL, Snowflake SDKs, and external stages pointing at your own S3/Azure/GCS. Programmatically the best of the warehouse entrants. |
| Composes with | One trial per email; trials cannot be chained legitimately because the account is suspended at day 30 — 'At the end of the trial, the account is suspended. You can still log into a suspended account, but you cannot use any features, such as … loading data.' |
| Reliability | Suspension at day 30 makes this a 30-day buffer, not storage. Any chunked-object scheme built on it would need a full re-upload cycle monthly. |
| Notes | No byte quota — a $400 credit balance and a 30-day clock, whichever ends first. 'The trial continues for 30 days (from the sign-up date) or until you've depleted your free usage balance.' Storage accrues cost against that balance at standard rates (~$40/TB/month per the documented Standard rate). So the nominal free storage is whatever the credit buys after compute: at $40/TB/mo, $400 buys 10 TB-months, i.e. 10 TB for one month or 1 TB for ten. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account | opened: 'The trial continues for 30 days (from the sign-up date) or until you've depleted your free usage balance, whichever occurs first'; 'At the end of the trial, the account is suspended … you cannot use any features, such as running a virtual warehouse, loading data, or performing queries'; 'To reactivate a suspended trial account, add a credit card.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.snowflake.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Test-Driving-Sn | surfaced: '200 free credits, a $400 value' — the credit figure, confirming the balance framing. |
| 2026-10-21 | news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978000 | surfaced: '$40/TB/month in storage' on standard plan, which is the rate the credit is spent against. |
More fields (2)
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"failure_class": "not-storage",
"why": "No byte quota — a $400 credit balance and a 30-day clock, whichever ends first. 'The trial continues for 30 days (from the sign-up date) or until you've depleted your free usage balance.' Storage accrues cost against that balance at standard rates (~$40/TB/month per the documented Standard rate). So the nominal free storage is whatever the credit buys after compute: at $40/TB/mo, $400 buys 10 TB-months, i.e. 10 TB for one month or 1 TB for ten.",
"retry_when": "never; it is not storage",
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
},
"price_verbatim": "$40/TB/month storage after the trial (Standard). Above the wave-6 floor by ~8x."
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snowflake trial ($400 / 30 days) Storage
fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/snowflake-trialsays fails-quota, storage/snowflake-trial-account says trial-only
| Free tier | Thirty days then suspension. Storage is billed from the credit balance, so $400 buys a few TB-months at most and then the account is suspended rather than downgraded. Trial, not free tier. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not recorded |
| Retention | not recorded |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Composes with | not recorded |
| Reliability | Thirty days then suspension. Storage is billed from the credit balance, so $400 buys a few TB-months at most and then the account is suspended rather than downgraded. Trial, not free tier. |
| Notes | Thirty days then suspension. Storage is billed from the credit balance, so $400 buys a few TB-months at most and then the account is suspended rather than downgraded. Trial, not free tier. |
| Evidence rung | reported |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (1)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account | Thirty days then suspension. Storage is billed from the credit balance, so $400 buys a few TB-months at most and then the account is suspended rather than downgraded. Trial, not free tier. |
More fields (1)
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"failure_class": "quota",
"why": "Thirty days then suspension. Storage is billed from the credit balance, so $400 buys a few TB-months at most and then the account is suspended rather than downgraded. Trial, not free tier.",
"retry_when": null,
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
}
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