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Firebolt vs Snowflake comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Firebolt
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Snowflake
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
106
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (1st), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (3rd), AI Software Development (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Firebolt is 2.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snowflake is 15.4%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.4%
Firebolt2.2%
Other82.4%
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

Iqbal Hossain Raju - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Can quickly query it to generate quick results
We have used Snowflake before. We support both. Firebolt has better performance, executing queries much quicker than Snowflake. However, Snowflake has more functionality. Depending on the client's needs, we can recommend the best option. Firebolt is a relatively new technology. Snowflake has many functionalities. Firebolt does not support unloading data to S3. There is no built-in way to do this in Firebolt. Alternatively, the data can be retrieved using API calls and loaded to S3 manually. Data can be unloaded to S3 directly using Snowflake. Firebolt significantly improves our performance over Snowflake because it takes less time to execute queries. This is especially important for our company because we use some KPIs that require fast loading times.
SunilPatil1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asset Builder at Genpact - Headstrong
Have prioritized security while managing multi-agent data migration and cloud adoption
We utilize Time Travel with Snowflake because this is a very useful feature. Everyone finds it crucial because in conventional data platforms, it's very difficult to handle these kinds of things. This feature is essential, though I don't have the use cases currently; it is just there for implementation. Regarding Snowflake's automated scaling and suspension features, this auto-scaling is very significant. We had a comparison with Databricks and Snowflake a few months back, and this auto-scaling takes an edge within Snowflake; that's what our observation reflects.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"The reduced infrastructure management is the big difference compared to on-prem warehousing with Snowflake Data Cloud."
"It is quite easy to manage."
"Snowflake has improved our organization by powering company-wide dashboards that functions use to understand and manage their business."
"It is very fast and the performance is great."
"Snowflake is a data lake on the cloud where all processing happens in memory, resulting in very fast query responses."
"Snowflake solves many of the challenges that traditional data warehousing tools have such as a lack of agility, scalability and fine-tuning."
"Snowflake helped us to improve query performance as the data was growing."
"I like the fact that we don't need a DBA. It automatically scales stuff."
 

Cons

"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"They need to incorporate some basic OLAP capabilities in the backend or at the database level."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"The cost efficiency and monitoring of this solution could be improved. It's easy to spend a lot on Snowflake and it does offer monitoring tools but they're pretty basic."
"Snowflake has to improve their spatial components since it doesn't have much in terms of geo-spatial queries."
"The scheduling system can definitely be better because we had to use external airflow for that."
"Its transaction application needs improvement."
"The product's performance could be improved."
"It is not that friendly with relational structures."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I am not much aware of the price, but based on what I have analyzed so far, its cost is reasonable as compared to on-prem data warehouse solutions. It provides a great deal for production."
"Snowflake is cost-effective. However, the cost can depend on how it's being used and how efficiently the code is written. If engineers don't write efficient code and usage is billed based on processing, it can become costly. If they write optimal code and choose the best solution, it can reduce costs in comparison to other options, such as Oracle."
"Its price should be improved. It should be cheaper than Microsoft."
"Part of the problem with the pricing is that it is very difficult for businesses to get an idea of how expensive it might be until they actually start using Snowflake."
"The solution is expensive."
"Snowflake is cost-effective."
"It is per credit. It has a use-it-as-you-go model. We bought a chunk of 20,000 credits, and they were lasting us for at least a year. We didn't have the scale of data like a much larger company to consume more credits. For us, it was very inexpensive. Their strategy is just to leverage what you've got and put Snowflake in the middle. It doesn't make it expensive because most of the organizations already have reporting tools. Now, if you were starting from scratch, it might be cheaper to go a different way."
"The solution is expensive but worth the cost because the quality is there."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?
I am not the person who manages pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Our team is not limited in pricing. The only experience we have had in terms of running and reprocessing a large number of histor...
What needs improvement with Snowflake?
One main area for improvement in Snowflake is cost visibility and optimization; while it's flexible and scalable, costs can increase quickly if warehouses are left running unnecessarily or workload...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
As a Data Engineer, I primarily use Snowflake for data warehousing tasks as well as ETL processing, and sometimes I also use it for data sharing. I personally find Snowflake better than other tools...
 

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Snowflake Computing, Snowflake Data Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

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Accordant Media, Adobe, Kixeye Inc., Revana, SOASTA, White Ops
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