Comparison
Datadog vs Snowflake
Scored side by side on cloud-infrastructure, using the same criteria we apply across the category.
Datadog
Unified observability across infrastructure, applications, logs and security.
4.4(6,300)$15 per host / month
Snowflake
Cloud data warehouse with separated storage and compute and per-second billing.
4.5(6,100)$2 per credit, consumption-based
Scored side by side
Cost predictability
Datadog
2.8
Snowflake
3.3
Value for money
Datadog
3.3
Snowflake
3.7
Datadog verdict
The most capable observability platform, and the one most likely to surprise you on invoice. Set volume controls on day one.
- Correlating metrics, traces and logs shortens incidents
- Very broad product coverage
- Fast agent-based setup
Snowflake verdict
The lowest-operations warehouse available. Budget for a FinOps owner from the start.
- Almost no operational overhead
- Zero-copy cloning transforms development workflows
- Best-in-class cross-organisation data sharing