试用账户

Snowflake 试用账户可让您评估/测试 Snowflake 的全部创新和强大功能，无需任何费用或合同义务。要注册试用账户，您只需提供一个有效的电子邮件地址；无需提供付款信息或其他资格信息。

注册试用账户

You can sign up for a free trial using the self-service form (https://signup.snowflake.com/) (on the Snowflake website).

When you sign up for a trial account, you select your cloud platform, region, and Snowflake Edition. These selections can affect how quickly you exhaust your free usage balance. For example, some features available in the Enterprise Edition consume additional credits.

The balance of your free usage decreases as you consume credits to use compute resources and accrue costs associated with storage. You can track your remaining balance at any time.

The trial continues for 30 days (from the sign-up date) or until you’ve depleted your free usage balance, whichever occurs first. At any time during the trial, you can cancel the trial or convert the account to a paid account.

试用期结束后，账户将会暂停。您仍然可以登录已暂停的账户，但不能使用任何功能，如运行虚拟仓库、加载数据或执行查询。

要重新激活已暂停的试用账户，您必须输入信用卡，这样才能将其转换为付费账户。

使用计算资源

Virtual warehouses provide the compute power to load data and perform queries. These warehouses consume credits, which reduces your free usage balance. To begin, simply start a warehouse; any credits consumed by the warehouse will be deducted from your balance. If your credit consumption fully depletes your free usage balance, you must add a credit card to the account to continue using Snowflake.

只有您在账户中创建的虚拟仓库在运行时才会使用免费 Credit。

Tip

为防止无意中使用您的免费 Credit，请执行以下操作：

  • Verify the size of your virtual warehouses before you start/resume them. The larger the warehouse, the more credits it consumes while running. In many situations, Small or Medium size warehouses are sufficient for evaluating Snowflake’s loading and querying capabilities.
  • Do not disable auto-suspend when creating a warehouse. Choosing a short auto-suspend time period (e.g. 5 minutes or less) can reduce credit consumption.

有关使用试用账户的其他提示：

  1. 在左侧导航栏中找到显示余额的磁贴。
  2. Select … » Using your trial credits.

使用存储

当您将数据加载到试用账户时，存储成本将根据您所在云平台和区域中的 TB 标准按需成本从您的免费使用余额中扣除。除了存储成本，加载数据也会使用 Credit，因为它使用的是仓库的计算资源。

试用账户教程

试用账户可使用以下教程：

跟踪余额

Users with the ACCOUNTADMIN role can track the remaining balance of their trial using a tile in the left navigation bar of Snowsight.

您还可以在该磁贴中执行以下操作：

  • Select Upgrade to convert the trial account to a paid account.
  • Select … » see organization usage details to access the Usage page, which allows you to drill down into your credit consumption and storage costs.
  • Select the … button to access resources that help you get the most out of your trial account.

转为付费账户

您可以随时为试用账户添加信用卡，将其转换为付费账户。

  1. Sign in to Snowsight.

  2. 执行下列操作之一：

    • Select Upgrade in the left navigation.
    • In the navigation menu, select Admin » Billing.
    • Click the Snowflake billing tab.

  3. In the Payment method pane, click + Credit Card.

  4. Enter the required information, and then select Add Card.

Adding a payment method converts your trial account to a self-service account. Snowflake knows trial account subscribers who convert to paid accounts as on-demand, self-service (ODSS) customers. ODSS customers can edit the billing contact information for a self-service account using Snowsight. For more information, see Update billing contact information.

请注意，您也可以随时使用添加信用卡的相同界面更改试用账户的信用卡。

Note

Adding a credit card to a trial account converts it to a paid account without ending the trial period. During the remainder of the trial period, you can continue using your free credits and storage until the balance is exhausted. Once the account has been converted to a paid account, you are automatically charged for any consumption that exceeds any remaining free credits in your account during each calendar month on or shortly after the end of such month (monthly payment).

Threshold billing: Depending on your usage after your free credits are exhausted, you may be automatically billed one or more times before the end of each calendar month if your consumption reaches certain thresholds (threshold payments). Threshold payments can vary in amount and may occur multiple times in a single month. You will receive an email notification each time a threshold payment is charged. Any threshold payments successfully charged during a calendar month are credited toward that month’s total consumption.

Unused free usage balance expires when the trial period ends, at which time costs (for consuming credits and storing data) are charged to the credit card on file.

For pricing details, see the pricing page (on the Snowflake website).

Warning

If a threshold payment fails, your account may be suspended. If you receive a payment failure notification, take action promptly to update your payment method.

取消试用账户

You can cancel a trial account at any time by contacting Snowflake Support and requesting the account to be canceled.

Note

Currently, trial accounts cannot be canceled through the web interface. To cancel an account, you must contact Snowflake Support.

试用账户的当前限制

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