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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated July 31st, 2026 # Reviews of Snowflake Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews AF Amanda F Licensed Real Estate BrokerReal Estate, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “With Snowflake, I have been able to make informed business decisions by collecting, modeling and visualizing data across a wide array of sources.“ December 21, 2025 CC Connor C Data AnalystNon-Profit Organization Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Some may to many tables did not import correctly and it was hard to find the right data“ March 16, 2026 CC Connor C Data AnalystNon-Profit Organization Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Snowflake was super helpful automatically designing our necessary tables based on the data we uploaded.“ March 16, 2026 Rosario T Sr. People OpsBanking, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It does not provide a clear guide or manual on how to use it for our new hires to read and learn how to navigate it.“ October 31, 2025 AF Amanda F Licensed Real Estate BrokerReal Estate, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It has been effective and super easy to model, visualize and share data among teams in my organization at the point of making business decisions.“ December 21, 2025 IW Isla W Marketing AnalystInternet, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “It's not a huge deal, but it's a bit annoying.“ June 27, 2026 JS Juan S Senior ConsultantChemicals, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “We centralized data control, made ELT easier, and provided stakeholders with trusted dashboards.“ August 19, 2025 WT Wei Chun T Data EngineerInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Bill is costly if warehouse cost is not monitored and alerts are not set.“ November 25, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 97 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Brian M. Data Analyst Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Snowflake is a winner!" January 12, 2026 5.0 I thought it was great. I would definitely recommend to all who are considering it an option. From ease of use to results. Pros I really appreciate the ease of use. In the beginning of my data analyst role, Snowflake was straight forward in understanding Cons The only real issue I had was the data return limits but am not entirely sure if that was a Snowflake issue or company threshold. Review Source PC Pratik C. Data Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Amazing but costly" June 23, 2025 5.0 Pros Snowflake is the data warehousing solution that tops them all. Has an intuitive UX. Amazing access control and wide variety of integrations. Cons Although Snowflake does its job very well, it can get expensive. Especially if you are trying to move data from another warehouse. Alternatives considered [BigQuery](https://www.capterra.com/p/268689/Google-Cloud-BigQuery/) Reason for choosing Snowflake Snowflake is easier to use with larger teams. Review Source IW Isla W. Marketing Analyst Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Fast Queries and Scalable Storage, Minor Access Control Hiccups" June 27, 2026 5.0 Pros The ease of scaling compute independently of storage is fantastic. We've been able to handle much larger datasets than before without massive upfront infrastructure costs. Plus, querying large amounts of data is genuinely fast. Our marketing analytics workflows are so much smoother now. Cons Setting up role-based access controls took a bit to figure out, and the documentation could be clearer on some of the finer points. Sometimes it feels like you need to be a security expert just to grant basic permissions. It's not a huge deal, but it's a bit annoying. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "How snowflake is different from other data warehouses present in the market." April 11, 2022 3.0 Used for monitoring large amount and data and also use for analysis purposes for taking business decisions for the companies. Pros The best thing is snowflake is a cloud based Warehouse system.and it’s completely based on shares nothing architecture so its gives faster performance during analysis.one more thing i like about this warehouse that the amount of time that you use the main warehouse here for that specific period of time you have to pay other than the warehouse is off for normal queries.particularly in dml statement mainly its uses the warehouse.so its manage automatically weather to use warehouse or not so it is very much good for saving money That’s why now big giants company are shifting towards snowflake for cost effective purposes and the smarter and faster performance it gives.and it also provides a feature call time travel where you can back up your all deleted data in a period of 90 days. Cons There are two things I don’t like about the snowflake is it’s doesn’t support unstructured data loading it’s only support the structure and semi structure data. And other one is it’s only support the bulk loading files so it’s difficult for a small size files loading or adding some few columns on it. Switched from [Vantage](https://www.capterra.com/p/133231/Teradata-Database/) Need more faster and cost effective warehouse for managing data and analysing the data that’s why sifted from teradata to snowflake. Review Source PS Purvesh S. Full Stack Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Robust Data Warehouse of this Era" January 12, 2026 4.0 Data warehousing is the main benefit that I experience when using Snowflake - I am able to analyze structured and unstructured data in one place. Pros How it is super easy to store, query and analyze massive data without managing hardware is what I like most about Snowflake. Data sharing and collaboration is another thing that I rank high about Snowflake. Cons Even though the learning curve was a bit steep, I am now used to it and currently there hasn’t been any new feature to customize. Review Source AF Amanda F. Licensed Real Estate Broker Real Estate Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Know More ‘bout Snowflake Prior to Implementation " December 21, 2025 5.0 It has been effective and super easy to model, visualize and share data among teams in my organization at the point of making business decisions. Pros It is my second year using Snowflake in the real-estate agency. With Snowflake, I have been able to make informed business decisions by collecting, modeling and visualizing data across a wide array of sources. Cons It has a quite learning curve, but the vendor offered free support - the best thing is how the vendor sends free ebooks for customization whenever they incorporate new features Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sr. People Ops Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great data warehouse platform for multi" October 31, 2025 4.0 Pros Snowflake is easy to use and implement. It allows the rest of the company to manage their databases and tables to run reports and dashboards on their processes. Since we integrated it with Sigma Computing, we are able to pull data connections and run analysis pretty easy. Cons It does not provide a clear guide or manual on how to use it for our new hires to read and learn how to navigate it. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Program Manager, Customer Experience Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Snowflake Gets it Done" September 25, 2025 5.0 I leverage snowflake tables in almost every aspect of my job day to day. It's unlocked unprecedented visibility into our operation, helping us execute much more effectively Pros integrates incredibly easily into our BI tools, allows for easy setup of new tables, can be pickedup without much advance training. Helps us build all of our data dashboards and manage our analysis Cons It's so easily integrated into other tools, it can be tough to know what native functionality Snowflake offers as well (i.e. LLM connectivity) Review Source CC Connor C. Data Analyst Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great system, tough to interact with" March 16, 2026 4.0 Overall, the system has a good structure, but we have had a few experiences that have made our time with snowflake harder Pros Snowflake was super helpful automatically designing our necessary tables based on the data we uploaded. Having so many connections has been incredibly helpful to utilize our data wherever we need. Cons The most difficult part was trying to find the data in the new system. Some may to many tables did not import correctly and it was hard to find the right data Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Associate Accounting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Powerful tool for data analysis " September 13, 2025 4.0 Pros The ability to query data in real time and the multitude of dimensions that can be analyzed using the system Cons The complexity of the UI when you first begin using it. There’s a very high volume of layered clicks. Review Source IC Isabella C. RevOps Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Versatile tool" April 16, 2025 5.0 Definitely a great tool for any enterprise company. It really upgrades your data analytics capabilities. Pros It is very versatile and can connect to pretty much any application. It is also very powerful for data science needs. Cons Snowflake requires a knowledgeable IT team to setup and maintain. End users must rely on the IT team and communicate requirements to the IT team for specific projects. Review Source DM David M. Escalations Specialist Consumer Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Snowflake is lovely for manipulation and analysis of data!" November 1, 2024 5.0 Excellent software for any data warehouse needs. Works really quickly with the implementation of SQL, no complaints at all. Pros Great data warehouse system with a robust SQL application. Easy to use for any data solutions needed! Cons I feel like sometimes the links I save don't get me exactly to the query that I want to use, but I can easily search it in the application. Review Source MG Mithun G. PM Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Modern warehouse on cloud technology" July 31, 2022 5.0 Overall if I ignore the cost factor, I am very much satisfied with Snowflake and with the features and capabilities it exposes. For a fast growing DataWarehouse, Snowflake is a very good choice as it is secure, robust and scalable. Pros Snowflake is very easy to use and can easily connect to different cloud platforms like AWS, GCP and Azure. The fact that it can be hosted on any of these platforms makes it portable and easy to use. The access and security is very flexible and scalable. The fact that storage and compute are separate makes it ideal for use with big data warehouses where usage can be monitored easily and can be charged back ti the appropriate business unit. More and more features are getting added to it which makes it a flexible, scalable data warehouse in cloud. Cons The warehouse currently does not support procedural languages and some of the datatypes do not align with some other popular databases which makes it difficult for migration to Snowflake. The cost is little bit on the higher side. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Ingelligence Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good environment to run SQL" August 5, 2024 5.0 It was easy to run SQL on the database. Just find the table on the left, enter the command on the right, and press the Run button. Pros Easy and intuitive interface. All you need to do is type SQL. Python is also available. Cons There was nothing particularly bad about it. Review Source Kristin G. Business Systems Manager Farming Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Superior Cloud Warehousing Capability" October 25, 2022 5.0 Snowflake allows us easier access to our data and integration partners are abundant Pros Snowflake is an industry leader and has ample connectors to all data sources. They integrate flawlessly with our BI platform and allow for management by a 3rd party. Compute power is FAST and easily scalable. Cons Snowflake, like most, has its own dialect for SQL - not necessarily a bad thing but something to adjust to. There is no data cap, so data usage can get expensive. Alternatives considered [Amazon Redshift](https://www.capterra.com/p/227349/Amazon-Redshift/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Performance/Optimization Lead - Global Data Management Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Did a proof of concept for my company comparing Snowflake to other databases that we use." December 26, 2017 5.0 Pros The three features of many great features that stand out are: -The REAL separation of compute and storage gives the ultimate flexibility. You can match workloads to the proper level of compute without having one workload collide with another. You can optimize what you spend by only using what you need with the ability to change the size of your compute multiple times a day and the ability to stop and resume compute nodes easily. -No other database I have ever used can handle concurrency like Snowflake. Additional clusters are automatically spun up if a query is queued -There is no tuning that needs to be done as this is a data warehouse as a service. No other database comes close to the Snowflake performance without additional tuning. I can put in some time and tune my Oracle, Teradata or HANA database to get similar or slightly better performance but the level of DBA needed to do this is costly. This is especially helpful when the query patterns to be run against the database are unknown. Cons One of the positives above can also be a negative. Snowflake is a service and not software that you can run in your own data center or your own cloud VPC. This CON can be overcome with end to end encryption where you own the key and other Snowflake features. Review Source LD Likhitha D. Data analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A cloud based Data platform" May 28, 2024 4.0 Pros Ease to access because of its cloud based platform Roles can be easily assigned Cons UI when we scroll to the bottom of the results and go to a different worksheet and come back the page displays the top of the results which is very annoying Review Source MK Mahesh K. Lead Analyst Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Data warehousing and computation as a cloud service" May 9, 2021 5.0 This really speeds up your sql computation, since we can use different computation warehouse on a same datasource, which distributes the load, it is a great experience with Snowflake Pros This is a cloud database and warehousing service, the syntax of snowflake is like psql, they have a good community support and good documentations for all the queries, they are faster than traditional databases, and the are charged separately for compute power and the storage space , which makes it usable in a flexible cost effective manor, good support team, always respond and try to resolve the issues if any was reported, and also helped us identify any cost saving scope Cons The System esoterically shows outage, these type of outages are informed to use by the support team, and they resolve it quickly, a minute potion of the syntax of sql is slightly different from psql, which makes it hard to migrate the application from different psql service providers Review Source Subramanian S. Senior Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "High Performance Cloud Data DWH" December 7, 2022 5.0 Earlier we used to have datawarehouse refreshed once a day.Now we are refreshing once every hour.Auto scale up facilities. Pros High PerformanceSecuredEncryption and Data Masking FeaturesMany new SQL Functions Cons Client Tool to Query Data needs to be improved Review Source WCT Wei Chun T. Data Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A Must-use Data Warehouse for Enterprises" November 25, 2023 4.0 Pros It is feature packed and easy to use. Terraform package is well managed hence giving team access to IaC. Granular RBAC provides a lot of opportunity for customisation and security governance. Cons Bill is costly if warehouse cost is not monitored and alerts are not set. Alternatives considered [Databricks](https://www.capterra.com/p/148499/Databricks/) Review Source Uddipan M. Senior data Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Snowflake - The next generation cloud data warehouse" August 9, 2021 5.0 It's really great, Snowflake offered a lot of flexibility which parallel cloud-based warehouses could not offer the same. Snowflake can scale both vertically and horizontally to cater all needs. Pros Snowflake is very easy to use and scale. It provides helpful features like merge, JSON flattening which are very handy options. Snowflake cloud SQL editor is very fast and helps easy developments. Cons It can be a costly solution if optimizations are not planned accordingly. Review Source JM Jasmine M. Operations Analyst Investment Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Snowflake review" July 29, 2024 5.0 Pros I really liked the easy use of snowflake as a SQL coder. It made my work very easy and I liked that there were tutorials and suggested corrections. Cons I did not like having to switch between different user roles in order to access certain files, but I think this was because of my company. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer BI Developer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Snowflake is an affordable solution that enables analysts and non-technical folk to build DWs." March 12, 2018 4.0 We have a lean team of data engineers and as a result cannot automate as many data sources as we'd like. In the interim, our analysts utilize Snowflake to incorporate data into our multifaceted reports. Pros We use Snowflake to capture some of our larger third party data exports that won't fit into Google Sheets. The process of uploading data is straightforward and keeps our business reporting streamlined despite lean engineering resources on our end. There is a SQL interface to make modifications to data before final exports and data viz. Cons The UI is clunky and not the most intuitive. The error messages could be more detailed and expanded. The support for Mac seems to be more limited. Encountered issues with data produced via Mac and support took months to fully resolve. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer SEO Manager Chemicals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Snowflake is an excellent choice for centralizing data and acting as a database "hub"" June 22, 2022 4.0 Pros Snowflake is incredibly flexible and versatile. There are numerous ways to get data into Snowflake, even if there is not already an API built out for the source. The tool has many pre-built integrations as well. Cons Though it is very flexible, one thing that Snowflake does not handle is unstructured data. This can be a problem if your sources heavily rely on this type of data. They say they are going to support it in the future, but as of right now, they do not. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Cofounder & CTO Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best warehouse in the market " April 5, 2018 5.0 Pros It's fast. It's simple. It's scalable. And best of all, we saved forty percent from switching off of redshift. Cons You can't connect easily from a sql editor outside of their browser or the command line. That makes it less convenient. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.