Snowflake

snowflake.com · Bozeman, United States of America

Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform provider that offers a fully managed data warehouse, data lake, and data sharing environment delivered as a service. Its platform enables enterprises to store, integrate, analyze, and securely share large volumes of structured and semi-structured data across multiple public clouds. Snowflake generates revenue through subscription fees based on storage, compute usage, and related data services for customers across industries.

  • Data Warehousing & Lakes
  • Business Intelligence & Dashboards
  • Data Integration & ETL
Revenue
$2.8B
Employees
6,500
Founded
2012
Headquarters
Bozeman, United States of America

What 338 Arbolus experts think of Snowflake

The majority of NPS scores are in the 8–10 range, with over 70% classified as Promoters. Renewal intent is strong among large enterprise users and high spenders, with some moderate caution around future cost scaling at extreme volumes. The largest share of users are in the 'MoreThan1Year' implementation stage, indicating platform maturity and deep integration. Key expert themes highlight reliability, strong governance, fast time-to-value, and the importance of disciplined cost management. Overall Customer Sentiment: Positive

Who reviewed Snowflake

Total customers 338 298 current · 40 former
Reviews growth +140 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 62% (210)
  • Director 27% (91)
  • Manager 11% (37)
Executive C-Suite NPS 10 Not renewing
People Leader C-Suite NPS 9 Undecided
Data Leader C-Suite NPS 9 Will renew

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Sentiment

53 Net Promoter Score, from 336 scored reviews
  • Promoters 205
  • Passives 107
  • Detractors 24

Cumulative NPS by month

+1 over 6 months
  • May 8
  • Jun 9
  • Jul 9
  • Aug 9
  • Sep 9
  • Oct 9

Net Promoter Score across 12 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 40 across 12 companies.

Praised

  • Separation of Compute and Storage
  • Operational Simplicity and Scalability
  • Strong Governance and Data Sharing
  • Autonomous Optimization and Open Architecture

Criticised

  • Consumption Costs and Governance
  • Integration Limitation for ML Workloads
  • Cost Management Complexity
  • Cloud-Native Vendor Lock-in

What customers say

Separation of Compute and Storage
“The main pros are its decoupled storage and compute architecture, multi-cloud flexibility, and brilliant concurrency handling for complex SQL workloads.”
Operational Simplicity and Scalability
“I’d recommend Snowflake because it gives me a simple, scalable, and low‑overhead data platform that consistently delivers performance without operational complexity.”
Strong Governance and Data Sharing
“We rely on the platform mainly for elastic compute that scales independently, near zero infrastructure management, strong concurrency, and easy data sharing across the organisation and with external partners.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 80%
  • Will renew 204
  • Undecided 42
  • Not renewing 10

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 80% 161 answers
  • Director 77% 62 answers
  • Manager 83% 24 answers
  • Not specified 78% 9 answers
  • 8.8/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 7.6/10 Average score from undecided customers
  • 7.4/10 Average score from customers not renewing

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