Snowflake
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Current state
As of Aug 17, 2026Snowflake uses a consumption-based pricing model with no flat subscription fees listed. Four platform editions are offered: Standard, Enterprise (marked 'Most Popular'), Business Critical, and Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS). Storage is billed separately via on-demand (pay month-to-month) or pre-paid capacity options, with on-demand storage priced at list rates unless capacity discounts apply. No specific dollar prices are listed on this page; details are deferred to the Snowflake Service Consumption Table and a downloadable Pricing Guide.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | — | All core platform functionality with fully managed elastic compute · Security with automatic encryption of all data · Snowpark · Data sharing · Optimized storage with compression and Time Travel |
| Enterprise | — | All Standard Edition features · Ability to use multi-cluster compute · Granular governance and privacy controls · Extended Time Travel windows |
| Business Critical | — | All Enterprise Edition features · Tri-Secret Secure · Access to private connectivity · Failover and failback for backup and disaster recovery |
| Virtual Private Snowflake | — | Includes all features of Business Critical Edition · Completely separate Snowflake environment, isolated from all other Snowflake accounts |
Changes
No qualifying changes since Aug 17, 2026. The page itself has changed 8 times — none matched. Last checked 1 d ago.
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Current state
As of Sep 6, 2026Snowflake's release notes page lists upcoming server release 10.32 (Preview, with PERIOD data type) and recent server releases 10.29, 10.27, and 10.26, alongside a stream of feature updates dated through Sep 04, 2026 covering AI, Cortex, Openflow, and app runtime capabilities. No explicit deprecations or sunset dates are listed on this page.
Latest entries
- Prompt injection guardrails now available in AWS_EU, AWS_JP, and AWS_APJchange
- SAS to Snowflake migration (Preview)addition
- Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updateschange
- External lineage (General availability)addition
- Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)addition
- Data lineage for Cortex Agentsaddition
- Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)addition
- Snowflake App Runtime (General availability)addition
- App.yml for Snowflake App Runtime (Preview)addition
- CoCo Desktop v1.21.2change
- Second generation Openflow (Preview)addition
- Snowflake-provided tags (Public Preview)addition
Changes
- ChangeAPI changelog
Snowflake added new preview release notes for version 10.32 with behavior changes and new PERIOD data type, plus multiple recent feature updates and driver version releases (Aug 28 - Sep 4, 2026).
UPCOMING (OR IN PROGRESS) SERVER RELEASES¶ RECENT SERVER RELEASES¶UPCOMING (OR IN PROGRESS) SERVER RELEASES¶ * 10.32 Release Notes (with behavior changes) (Preview) * Behavior change bundles * SQL updates * PERIOD data type (Preview) * Release notes change log RECENT SERVER RELEASES¶Confidence95% - ChangeAPI changelog
Snowflake removed three feature release entries from the August and July 2026 release notes: Native Apps relative paths for Cortex Agent skills, CoCo Desktop v1.20.2, AI code suggestions in Workspaces, and Native Apps VPS support on AWS.
* Aug 12, 2026: Snowflake Native Apps: Relative paths for Cortex Agent skills * Aug 12, 2026: New POSTGRES_COMPUTE_USAGE_HISTORY view* Aug 12, 2026: New POSTGRES_COMPUTE_USAGE_HISTORY viewConfidence85% - ChangeAPI changelog
Snowflake added three new feature updates (CoCo in VS Code, increased dbt file limit, Data Clean Rooms updates, stable egress IPs on Azure, Snowflake ML Python v1.53.0) and removed four older July 27 feature entries from the recent updates section.
* Jul 27, 2026: AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (Preview) * Jul 27, 2026: AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now available in GCP Middle East Central2 (Dammam) * July 27, 2026: Custom incremental dynamic tables (General availability) * Jul 27, 2026: New agent_type column in QUERY_HISTORY views* Aug 27, 2026: CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability) * Aug 27, 2026: Increased file limit for deployed dbt project objects * Aug 27, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates * Aug 26, 2026: Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability) * Aug 26, 2026: Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability) * Aug 26, 2026: Organization user types (General availability) * Aug 25, 2026: Multi-value tags (General availability) * Aug 25, 2026: Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (Preview) * August 25, 2026: Stable egress IP addresses on Azure (Preview) * Aug 24, 2026: CoCo Desktop v1.21.1 * Aug 24, 2026: Improved data freshness for ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views * Snowflake CLI (v3.25.0) * Snowflake ML Python (v1.53.0)Confidence85% - ChangeAPI changelog
Removed preview release notes for version 10.30 (including PERIOD data type GA); added three new feature updates (Multi-value tags GA, CoCo Desktop v1.21.1, Request Access in Workspaces Preview).
UPCOMING (OR IN PROGRESS) SERVER RELEASES¶ * 10.30 Release Notes (Preview) * SQL updates * PERIOD data type (General availability) * Release notes change logUPCOMING (OR IN PROGRESS) SERVER RELEASES¶ RECENT SERVER RELEASES¶ + * Aug 25, 2026: Multi-value tags (General availability) + * Aug 24, 2026: CoCo Desktop v1.21.1 + * Aug 10, 2026: Request Access in Workspaces (Preview)Confidence85% - ChangeAPI changelog
Snowflake removed deprecated feature 'Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (Public Preview)' from July 24, 2026, and rebranded 'Snowflake Intelligence' to 'Snowflake CoWork' for user skills feature.
* August 18, 2026: User skills in Snowflake Intelligence (Preview) ... * July 24, 2026: Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (Public Preview)* August 18, 2026: User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)Confidence75% - ChangeAPI changelog
Removed 6 feature updates and 3 SDK version entries scheduled for July 23, 2026, including SERVICE_AGENT user type GA, SHOW CORTEX BASE MODELS command GA, dbt Projects support, Data Clean Rooms updates, and driver/SDK versions.
* July 24, 2026: Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (Public Preview) * July 23, 2026: SQL environment variable and private Git package support for dbt Projects on Snowflake * Jul 23, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates * Jul 23, 2026: SERVICE_AGENT user type (General availability) * July 23, 2026: SHOW CORTEX BASE MODELS command (General availability) * ODBC Driver (v3.19.0) * PHP PDO Driver (v4.1.0) * Snowpipe Streaming SDK (v1.7.0)* July 24, 2026: Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (Public Preview)Confidence95% - ChangeAPI changelog
Removed four feature entries including CoCo Desktop v1.20.0, External OAuth for MCP servers, dynamic table refresh functionality, and Snowflake ML Python v1.48.0 from the July 2026 release notes.
Confidence85% - ChangeAPI changelog
Added 5 new feature updates (CoCo automations, Snowflake ML Python v1.52.0, Organization Command Center, Trust Center violation findings, and removed 3 July 21 entries); no deprecations, breaking changes, or rate limit modifications detected.
* Jul 22, 2026: Refresh multiple dynamic tables in one ALTER statement * Snowflake ML Python (v1.48.0) * Jul 21, 2026: CoCo Desktop - General availability * Jul 21, 2026: Consuming Delta Shares in Horizon Catalog (General availability) * July 21, 2026: Tag-based data protection policies (Public Preview)* Aug 21, 2026: CoCo automations in CLI and Snowsight (Preview) * Aug 20, 2026: AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability) * Snowflake ML Python (v1.52.0) * Aug 19, 2026: Organization Command Center 3rd party access configuration (Preview) * Aug 14, 2026: Trust Center violation findings remediation (General availability) * Jul 22, 2026: Refresh multiple dynamic tables in one ALTER statement * Snowflake ML Python (v1.48.0)Confidence85% - ChangeAPI changelog
Snowflake removed four feature updates from July 20, 2026 (OIDC federated authentication, Microsoft network rules, dynamic table DML, and pass-through policies), reorganized server releases with 10.30 now upcoming and 10.25 removed from recent list, and added three new feature updates.
Confidence85% - ChangeAPI changelog
New major-version driver releases appeared: ODBC Driver v4.0.0-rc1 (up from v3.19.0) and Python Connector v5.0.0rc1, signaling upcoming breaking API changes.
ODBC Driver (v3.19.0)ODBC Driver (v4.0.0-rc1) * Python Connector (v5.0.0rc1)Confidence60%
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