Published May 19, 2026
| Starting Price | Marketplace access is not separately priced; buyers pay for listings and Snowflake compute/storage | Receiver pricing is provider-set (subscriptions or pay-as-you-go) plus AWS service costs; senders may incur data grant fees | Pricing varies by vendor and is often tied to Databricks consumption and partner pricing |
| Best For | Organizations standardized on Snowflake that require query-in-place governed sharing and distribution of native apps | AWS-centric organizations seeking data products integrated with the AWS ecosystem | Teams using Databricks and lakehouse architectures focused on Spark/ML workflows |
| Key Strength | Integration with Snowflake Secure Data Sharing and in-platform governance | Broad AWS ecosystem, procurement integration, and catalog visibility | Alignment with Spark-based workflows and Databricks-native tooling |
| Key Weakness | Primary value is for Snowflake customers; compute costs can be difficult to predict; provider continuity risk exists | Potential for increased AWS lock-in; sender-side storage or data grant fees may apply | Marketplace maturity and pricing models vary; platform engineering requirements can be higher |
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Where Snowflake Marketplace provides a measurable operational benefit:
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Market-share and adoption estimates published by third parties are model-based and should be treated as indicative rather than definitive.