Pay per minute.
Not per commit.
Databasin is an AI-native data platform that replaces the warehouse-plus-ETL-plus-BI-plus-AI stack with one post-pay, per-minute meter. Open Apache Iceberg by default. HIPAA in the base SKU. Your cloud or ours.
Everything you bought Snowflake for.
Plus the things you had to buy around it.
Snowflake is a warehouse. Databasin is the platform. The stack you assembled to make Snowflake useful — the ETL tool, the BI seat, the notebook license, the AI add-on — is already inside Databasin, metered by the minute.
Stopped clusters cost $0. No "credits that aren't dollars." No annual true-up conversations. Turn it off, it's off.
Open Apache Iceberg tables. Open Parquet files. Query from Trino, Spark, DuckDB, or bring your own. Leaving is not a migration project — your data is already portable.
Databasin One is an agentic analyst built in — Claude + GPT, with full catalog awareness. Not a credit-priced add-on. Ask a question, ship the chart.
Co-created at Washington University School of Medicine. BAA available. Not a "Business Critical" tier upgrade. Compliance is not a premium line item.
SaaS, or self-installed into your own Azure tenant with your keys and VNets. Same platform, same features. Zero vendor logical access, if you want it.
Pipelines, lakehouse compute, AI tokens, storage, and dashboards on one bill. Not three vendors and a procurement deck.
Published list prices.
Apples to apples.
Snowflake Enterprise, on-demand. Databasin consumption rates. Every line is a real SKU you can verify at the source.
| Capability | Databasin | Snowflake (Enterprise) |
|---|---|---|
| Query compute — small | $2.00/hr · XSmall, per node | $3.00/hr · XS warehouse (1 credit/hr) |
| Query compute — medium | $4.00/hr · per node | $12.00/hr · M warehouse (4 credits/hr) |
| Data pipelines (ETL/ELT) | ✓$5.00/hr · included in the platform | —Not included · add Fivetran, Matillion, or Airbyte |
| AI / natural-language analyst | ✓$15 / 1M tokens · Databasin One, built in | —Cortex AI · credit-metered add-on SKU |
| BI / dashboards | ✓Included · Reportbasin + Databasin One | —Not included · add Tableau, Power BI, Sigma |
| Storage | $24 / TB / mo · snapshot-metered | ~$23 / TB / mo compressed · proprietary format |
| Table format | ✓Apache Iceberg + Parquet · open, any engine reads it | Proprietary FDN · Iceberg support exists but as a managed overlay |
| Billing model | ✓Pay-per-minute, post-pay, no commit | Credits, typically pre-purchased with annual commit |
| HIPAA / BAA | ✓Base plan · BAA available | Business Critical tier (higher credit price) |
| Deployment | ✓SaaS or self-install in your own Azure tenant | SaaS only · multi-tenant account on Snowflake's infra |
| Seat / user fees | ✓None | None on warehouse · but you still pay per seat on Tableau/PBI |
Snowflake pricing reflects published on-demand Enterprise rates in AWS/Azure US regions as of early 2026 at $3.00 / credit. Actual Snowflake cost varies by region, edition (Standard / Enterprise / Business Critical), and committed-use discounts. Verify at snowflake.com/pricing.
All the analytics workload.
Half the monthly bill.
4-node medium cluster, 8 hours/day, 20 business days/month. Pipelines running 60 min/day. 500 GB stored. Two BI seats for business users.
Storage: $12 · AI (Databasin One): $45
BI & dashboards: $0 (included)
Tableau (2 seats): ~$1,750 · Storage: $12
Cortex AI: add-on, credit-priced
Four reasons Finance and Engineering
land on the same answer.
Snowflake is still a warehouse. Databasin is a lakehouse, a pipeline engine, an agentic analyst, and a BI surface — with one governance layer over all of it.
Open storage, actually.
Every table is written as Apache Iceberg on Parquet, in your lake. Trino, Spark, DuckDB, or any engine you bring can read it — no copies, no rewrites, no format conversion.
Flexible where it runs.
Take our SaaS, or self-install Databasin into your own Azure tenant — your keys, your VNets, zero vendor logical access to your data. Same product in both modes.
Secure by default, not by tier.
Built inside an academic medical center. HIPAA-ready and BAA-available on the standard plan. Row-level security, column masking, and audit in the base product.
Intelligent, not bolted on.
Databasin One is an agentic analyst built into the platform — Claude + GPT with full catalog awareness. It picks the tables, writes the SQL, renders the chart, and explains its work.
The line items Snowflake
hopes you don't total up.
Snowflake's sticker rate is the warehouse credit. The bill you actually sign is the warehouse plus the ETL tool plus the BI seats plus the AI add-on plus the annual commit minimum. Databasin replaces that stack with one platform, one meter, one invoice.
Try the disruptor.
$50 in credits. No card required. No annual commit. No per-seat anything. Load real data, run a real query, and ask Databasin One to build you a real dashboard — before lunch.