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Snowflake Rule

Suspended warehouses use no credits; multi-cluster = size rate x running clusters

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Kind
Counting
Statement
Service Consumption Table (effective 2026-09-25): "When a Virtual Warehouse or Compute Node is suspended, it does not use any Platform Credits." Footnote 2: the rate for a multi-cluster Virtual Warehouse is the rate for the size of the Virtual Warehouse multiplied by the number of running clusters. Documentation example: a 3X-Large multi-cluster warehouse running 1 cluster for one hour then 2 clusters for the next hour bills 192 credits (64 + 128). Multi-cluster warehouses are an Enterprise Edition feature (documentation).
Applies when
Counting credits for idle or multi-cluster warehouses.
Applies to
Virtual Warehouse Services.
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