Ideas that move data teams forward
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Your AI Agents Are Paying for Missing Context
Yaniv Leven
Horizon Context is now in public preview. Here’s what it costs (as far as the docs say), and how tags, lineage and ownership turn it into a cost tool
Picture a finance team with seven tables that have revenue in the name. Three are sandbox copies, two are staging, and...
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Snowflake On-Demand vs Capacity: Credits, Rollover and Renewal (2026)
Akash Joshi
Snowflake capacity pricing means you buy a set dollar amount of usage up front and spend it down at order-form rates. On-demand pricing means list price, invoiced monthly in arrears. Beyond your capacity balance, Snowflake’s usage view describes the excess as...
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Snowflake Pricing Examples: Three Worked Monthly Bills (2026)
Akash Joshi
A Snowflake bill is credits times a price per credit, plus storage by the terabyte, data transfer and, for AI, a separate AI Credit. These three illustrative Snowflake pricing examples build one month line by line, without data transfer or unlisted lines: a small team...
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Correct Isn’t the Same as Cheap
Yaniv Leven
AI agents can now write your SQL and pipelines. The checks around them need to cover spend, not just accuracy.
A growing share of the SQL running in our warehouses wasn’t typed by a person. It came from a copilot in the IDE, an agent building a dbt model, or a...
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Snowflake Cloud Services Credits: How the 10% Rule Works (2026)
Akash Joshi
Snowflake cloud services credits are billed only on days when cloud services use passes 10% of that day’s virtual warehouse credits. Even then, you pay only for the excess. Snowflake works this out for each UTC day, and serverless usage does not count toward the...
