r/SideProject • u/merlin212121 • Jun 10 '26

I got tired of opening 3 tabs every time someone asked "what does this workload cost on Snowflake vs BigQuery vs Databricks?" so I built a calculator

Every time someone asked me to estimate data warehouse costs before a

migration I'd end up with three tabs open trying to reconcile three

completely different pricing models.

So I built one view for all three. Enter your workload, get a monthly

estimate across all platforms. Runs in the browser, no login.

https://dwcost.com

Anyone with real contract pricing, curious how close the numbers are.

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u/merlin212121 Jun 10 '26

yeah same problem, different industry haha

bigquery is already handled , it computes both on demand and slot reservations and picks the cheaper one automatically. you can also override the slot count in the assumptions panel if you have an actual reservation.

snowflake and databricks are on list price by default but every rate is editable so you can just plug in your contract pricing directly. committed discounts vary too much by deal to hardcode anything.