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How to Reduce the Snowflake Cost of Your dbt Models (and Find the Ones That Cost the Most)
Akash Joshi
TL;DR
You cannot reduce what you cannot attribute. dbt already writes the model name into every query it sends to Snowflake, so you can price each model with one join.
Most dbt spend comes from a small number of models. Rank them first, then change only those.
The...
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How to Trace a Snowflake Cost Spike Back to the Query and the Person Who Ran It
Akash Joshi
TL;DR
A spike investigation has four questions: when did it start, which service moved, which queries sat inside that window, and who or what issued them.
Snowflake can answer all four from ACCOUNT_USAGE, but each view has a different delay (45 minutes to 8 hours) and...
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Snowflake Auto-Clustering Costs Out of Control? How to Find the Tables Driving Them and What to Do
Akash Joshi
TL;DR
Automatic Clustering bills as its own service. It does not show up under a warehouse, so you will not find it by looking at warehouse credits.
Since 1 September 2026, newly clustered tables use Optima Clustering, which is billed by data ingested rather than...
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Seemore Data Named a Finalist in the Future of AI 2026 Startup Competition
Nurit Gal
We’re thrilled to announce that Seemore Data has made it to the finals of the Future of AI 2026 Startup Competition, joining a select group of innovative startups chosen from hundreds of applicants.
On October 21, our CEO, Yaniv Leven, will represent Seemore Data...
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Your Snowflake Cost Dashboard Might Be Lying to You
Yaniv Leven
Why bytes scanned is the wrong yardstick for spend, and what to measure instead
In August, a story made the rounds in Snowflake circles with a great headline: a 149 GB query that Snowflake reported as having scanned negative 1.5 GB. The cause was a quiet technical one...
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How to Reduce the Snowflake Cost of Your dbt Models (and Find the Ones That Cost the Most)
Akash Joshi
10 min read
How to Trace a Snowflake Cost Spike Back to the Query and the Person Who Ran It
Akash Joshi
