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Credit consumption doubles with each warehouse size step, and billing is per second with a sixty-second minimum per resume. The auto-suspend timer matters more than it looks: a warehouse that resumes twenty times a day with a five-minute timer burns credits idling for over an hour and a half, which on a Large warehouse is thirteen wasted credits daily.
Credit consumption
credits per hour doubles per size step from 1 at X-Small; daily = credits per hour x active hours + idle credits before suspend; cost = credits x price
Not necessarily. It costs twice per hour but may finish in less than half the time, making it cheaper as well as faster. Test rather than assuming.
Sixty seconds for interactive workloads, since the warehouse cache is lost on suspend but idle credits are expensive. For batch-only warehouses, suspend immediately.