Per-second billing after a start/resume minimum (1 minute; 60 minutes Interactive; 5 minutes Compute Nodes)
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- 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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