Snowflake vs Astronomer Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
| Snowflake | Astronomer | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | Custom | Custom |
| Number of plans | 4 | 5 |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | ||
| Pricing model | usage-based | usage-based |
Standard
Enterprise
PopularBusiness Critical
Virtual Private Snowflake
Developer
- AI-powered Dag authoring & debugging
- Flexible, scale-to-zero compute
- Hibernating deployments
- API access
- Deployment rollbacks
Team
- End-to-end observability & data quality
- Network isolation with Dedicated clusters
- High availability deployments
- Audit logging (7-day retention)
- 24x5 support availability
Business
- SSO enforcement
- CI/CD enforcement
- Audit logging (90-day retention)
- 24x7 support availability (1 hour SLA)
Enterprise
- Remote execution agents
- Cross-region Disaster Recovery (add-on)
- Custom RBAC
- SCIM provisioning
- IP access list
- Organization dashboards
Astro Private Cloud
- Manage deployments across multiple clusters and regions
- Air-gapped deployment support
- Enterprise SSO integration
- Deployment isolation
- Dynamic resources management
- In-place Airflow upgrades
- Houston API access
- Professional services installation assistance
- 24/7 committer-led support
Snowflake vs Astronomer FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Neither has a free plan. But Snowflake and Astronomer offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a usage-based model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Snowflake: Snowflake is the premium play in cloud data warehousing — they're not trying to win on price against BigQuery or Redshift, they're selling on performance, cross-cloud flexibility, and the Data Cloud ecosystem. They target mid-market to enterprise teams that have outgrown cheaper options and need serious scale. Astronomer: Astronomer is positioning as the managed Airflow premium — not the cheapest way to run pipelines, but cheaper than building and maintaining your own Airflow infrastructure at scale. They're going after data engineering teams already bought into Airflow who want to offload ops, competing with MWAA and Cloud Composer on convenience and Airflow fidelity.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Snowflake and Astronomer and let you know when something moves.