In one line: a dashboard tells you where the money went — we get it back and prove it, without your data ever leaving Snowflake.
Side by side
| Capability | Snowflake Cost Analyzer | Snowsight / ACCOUNT_USAGE |
|---|---|---|
| Cost & usage visibility | ✓ Purpose-built dashboards | ✓ Raw views & charts |
| Waste ranked in dollars | ✓ Findings ranked $/mo | — Manual analysis |
| Confidence / effort / risk on each item | ✓ | — |
| One-click fix (allowlisted SQL) | ✓ | — Write your own |
| Realized before/after savings proof | ✓ | — |
| AI / Cortex spend detectors | ✓ | — Raw usage only |
| Anomaly banner & weekly digest | ✓ | — |
| Runs inside your account (no egress) | ✓ Native App | ✓ Native to Snowflake |
What the built-in tools do well
Snowsight is free, always current, and needs no install — for ad-hoc questions and raw exploration it's the right first stop, and everything we surface ultimately traces back to the same ACCOUNT_USAGE metadata.
Where we go further
From "here's the data" to "here's the dollar-ranked list"
The built-in views give you the raw material; turning it into a prioritized, quantified list of what to fix is manual work that rarely gets done consistently. Our Savings Center does it on every scan — see the full detector catalog.
From "write the fix" to "apply it in one click"
Lowering an auto-suspend timeout or adding a resource monitor is a SQL statement you'd otherwise write, test, and track. We generate an allowlisted statement, show it to you, and apply it — then measure the result.
From "trust me" to "here's the proof"
Realized-savings compares spend before and after a change, so the impact is measured, not asserted — the number your finance team actually wants.
Keep Snowsight. Add the layer that acts.
Install free from the Marketplace and run a scan — your headline savings number comes from your own account.