Our Shift to Usage-Based Pricing

Post by BXlnt2EachOther » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

philjohn wrote: post #33

fphhotchips wrote: post #30

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Snowflake employee here, not speaking on behalf of the company. Short version is that you would think so, but it doesn't work that way for at least two reasons. 1. If we weren't investing in product optimization, but our competitors were, we'd quickly be outpaced. 2. When we invest in optimizing queries for our customers, the ROI on the Snowflake investment goes up. This results in actually getting even more money th…

Was a heavy Snowflake user at my last company - and this is what we saw. Plenty of profiling tools to show why a query was taking a certain amount of time allowed us to optimise things, and also, the product seemed to get quicker over time. Also love that, unlike BigQuery, you charge by compressed data size, not uncompressed data size.