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The AI compute cost gap is widening: 92 percent of enterprises lack mature cost tracking for AI infrastructure even as 45 percent plan to switch or add providers within a year, risking runaway spend.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is GA on AWS in six regions, with query-level billing and a 1.2x Snowflake benchmark edge over Gen2.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query-based adaptive warehouse compute. Use its 2 knobs to cap bursts, monitor credits, and avoid blind migrations.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query billed warehouse compute with 2 tuning knobs. Use it when tuning costs more than control.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query-billed warehouse compute. Its default XLARGE cap and multiplier 2 force FinOps teams to retest sizing.
Snowflake Gen2 standard warehouses run on faster hardware and finish most queries quicker, but they bill at a higher credit rate and you often have to switch with a SQL clause. Whether they save money depends entirely on whether the speedup beats the rate.
Snowflake warehouse sizing sets your credit burn: each size up doubles credits per hour, so a 4XL costs 128 credits per hour against an XS at 1. Right-size by workload, not by habit.