Pricing Plan

Snowflake Marketplace Product Pricing Plans

Overview

Snowflake Marketplace offers two primary pricing models: Usage-Based and Subscription-Based. You can implement one or both models for your product listing.

Usage-Based Pricing

Usage-based pricing charges consumers monthly based on their actual consumption of your data product. This model offers several charging options:

1. Billable Events

Note: Custom Event Billing is only available for application listings.

Custom Event Billing allows you to charge for specific application usage patterns, such as:

• Per row modified
• Per procedure call
• Per row accessed
• Per unique row updated monthly (monthly active rows)
• Custom-defined events in your application

2. Per-Query Charges

• Fixed price per query accessing paid data
• Applies in addition to any monthly fees (if applicable)

3. Monthly Fee

• Fixed calendar month fee
• Triggered by:
  • First query execution against a Snowflake Native App
  • First access to paid listing data share
  • First run of a Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services
• Not prorated; full month charged regardless of activation date
• No charge if no usage occurs during the month

Usage-Based Pricing Requirements

For plans with dynamic charges (per-query or Custom Event Billing), you must specify:

1. Maximum Monthly Charge Cap

   • Defines the upper limit for total monthly costs
   • Includes all usage-based charges
   • Usage becomes free once cap is reached

2. Free Query Allowance

   • First query always incurs charges
   • Specify number of free queries after the first query
   • Regular pricing resumes after free queries are used

Subscription-Based Pricing

Subscription-based pricing requires upfront payment for a specified term. Two billing options are available:

1. Recurring Billing

   • Automatic renewal at term end
   • Continuous access to data product

2. Non-Recurring Billing

   • Fixed-term access
   • Manual renewal required

Installment Plan Options

To provide payment flexibility, you can offer installment plans that:

• Split total cost into multiple payments
• Allow customized payment schedules
  • Variable payment amounts
  • Front-loaded or back-loaded payments
  • Optional zero-payment periods

How the committed amount is derived

When a private offer is accepted, Suger records a committed amount on the resulting entitlement and uses it in your notifications. Where that number comes from depends on the offer’s payment type:

For an upfront or installment offer the contract value is what the buyer actually committed to. It is negotiated per deal and often bears no relation to the plan’s per-cycle base fee — an installment schedule, for instance, sums to the contract value rather than to any multiple of the base fee. Deriving the commit from the base fee in those cases produced a wrong figure on the entitlement, so the contract value wins whenever it is present and greater than zero.

If a Snowflake entitlement’s commit looks wrong, check the offer’s contract value first — that is the number it is reading.