Snowflake
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Records 4
- trialSnowflake
Computefree tieridentity emailcardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- trialSnowflake 30-day trial ($400 credits)
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- trialSnowflake trial account (internal stage)USD 40/TB-month
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotasnowflake trial ($400 / 30 days)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
Snowflake
Compute- Free allowance
- Start your 30-day Snowflake trial with USD 400 in free credits.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaUSD 400 of usage over 30 days
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Egress | Per-byte egress fee for transfers into a different region or cloud platform, with transfers inside the same region free and no ingress fee; the per-byte rate depends on the hosting region and is on the separate pricing guide, not read. |
| Interface | cli Snowflake CLI, an open-source command line client for SQL execution and for Snowpark, Streamlit and Native App objects, over a configured connection; SnowSQL is the legacy command line client; documented at docs.snowflake.com |
| Tooling | Snowflake CLI (open source, the preferred client) and SnowSQL (legacy client) |
| 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. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 7
| 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 |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cost-understanding-data-tra | egress is charged per byte across regions |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/index | a CLI exists |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/index | Snowflake CLI is the preferred command line client |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli/index | the page names Snowflake CLI and SnowSQL |
More fields 3
| facets | {"class": "analytics-trial-credit","free_tier_kind": "trial-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null}} |
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| credit price usd | {"aws_us_east_standard": 2.0,"aws_us_east_enterprise": 3.0} |
| xs credits per hour gen1 | 1 |
Unknown values 3
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- Free allowance
- $400 in free credits on a 30-day trial ('Start your 30-day Snowflake trial today.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedretention: 'Snowflake trial account credits may be used within 30 days
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| 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 |
| 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'. |
| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Data leaves via query results, not object GETs; no egress-free download path. |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| Parsed numbers |
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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 | source not published | probe: GET docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account -> 200; GET www.snowflake.com/en/snowflake-trial/ -> 200 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","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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Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/snowflake-trialsays fails-quota, storage/snowflake-trial-account says trial-only
- Free allowance
- No byte quota — a $400 credit balance and a 30-day clock, whichever ends first.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 40/TB-month
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| 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). |
| Identity | email email |
| Egress | Not free. Snowflake bills egress/transfer separately and the trial credit is consumed by it. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| 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. |
| 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
| dead end | {"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"} |
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| price verbatim | $40/TB/month storage after the trial (Standard). |
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/snowflake-trialsays fails-quota, storage/snowflake-trial-account says trial-only
- Free allowance
- Thirty days then suspension.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| 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 |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-trial-account | the text of Free tier, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"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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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field