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Data Warehouse Cost Calculator

Work out data warehouse cost instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Data Warehouse Cost Calculator

Modern warehouses separate storage from compute, and compute dominates the bill by a wide margin: sixty terabytes of storage costs under 1,400 a month while 260 compute hours costs over 4,000. That separation is what makes auto-suspend so valuable — idle warehouses cost only storage, so the optimisation target is query efficiency and suspend timers rather than data volume.

Formula

Warehouse cost

compute = hours x hourly rate; storage = TB x per-TB-month rate; total = compute + storage

Worked example

With the default values below, Data Warehouse Cost Calculator returns Monthly warehouse cost of $5,540.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Data storedminimum 0.001 TB
60 TB
Compute hours per monthminimum 0 h
260 h
Compute hourly rateminimum 0
16
Storage price per TB-monthminimum 0
23

Results

Monthly warehouse cost
$5,540.00
Compute
$4,160.00
Storage
$1,380.00
Share of cost from compute
75.1%

Step by step

  1. 1Values used
  2. 2Warehouse cost
  3. 3Monthly warehouse cost= 5,540.00
  4. 4Compute= 4,160.00
  5. 5Storage= 1,380.00
  6. 6Share of cost from compute= 75.1

Assumptions and limits

  • The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
  • In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
  • Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is storage so cheap relative to compute?

It sits in object storage at commodity rates. Compute is priced on provisioned clusters or slots, which are far more expensive per unit of time.

What is the biggest lever on warehouse cost?

Auto-suspend with a short timer, plus partitioning and clustering so queries scan less data and finish faster. Both reduce compute hours directly.

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