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Snowflake Rule

Per-second billing after a start/resume minimum (1 minute; 60 minutes Interactive; 5 minutes Compute Nodes)

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Kind
Floor / minimum
Statement
Service Consumption Table (effective 2026-09-25): when a Virtual Warehouse or a Postgres Compute Node is started or resumed, a minimum of one minute of Platform Credits is consumed; an Interactive Warehouse, sixty minutes; a Compute Node (except Postgres Compute), five minutes. Thereafter Virtual Warehouses and Compute Nodes are charged per second, rounded up to the nearest whole second. Snowflake Openflow Compute: per second with a 60-second minimum. Documentation adds that resizing a warehouse to a larger size also bills one minute of the added resources.
Applies when
Every warehouse or compute node start, resume or resize.
Applies to
Virtual Warehouses, Interactive Warehouses, SPCS Compute Nodes, Postgres Compute, Openflow.
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