Snowflake Horizon Catalog
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Snowflake Horizon Catalog, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Snowflake Horizon Catalog's own pricing page, checked 23 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Priced on request | Core platform functionality · Fully managed elastic compute · Data sharing · Time Travel |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Multi-cluster compute · Granular governance and privacy controls · Extended Time Travel windows |
| Business Critical | Priced on request | Enterprise features · Tri-Secret Secure · Private connectivity · Failover and failback |
| Virtual Private Snowflake | Priced on request | Business Critical features · Separate Snowflake environment · Isolation from other Snowflake accounts |
| Snowflake 30-day trial | Free | $400 free credits · Snowflake platform trial · 30 days |
| Snowflake consumption pricing | Priced on request | Standard · Enterprise · Business Critical · Virtual Private Snowflake editions · on-demand month-to-month or prepaid capacity |
The facts
Each one read from Snowflake Horizon Catalog's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI guardrails
- AI guardrails can detect, redact and block sensitive information in agent outputs before delivery.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Connectors
- Preview metadata connectors cover BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker and ThoughtSpot, databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server, and dbt.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Connector security
- Connector credentials are stored in an encrypted Snowflake-managed layer and SaaS connections require TLS 1.2 or newer.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data quality
- Continuous data-quality monitoring supports freshness checks, alerts and root-cause analysis.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Snowflake provides dedicated Horizon guides, developer references, tutorials and release notes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- External catalogs
- Catalog-linked databases connect Horizon to ecosystems including AWS Glue and Azure OneLake.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Iceberg interoperability
- It reads and writes Apache Iceberg tables and exposes an Iceberg REST Catalog API for Spark, Flink and Trino with governance applied.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Iceberg limitations
- Documented REST limitations include unsupported remote/native tables in some paths, no equality-delete or branch/tag writes, and unsupported cloned tables with vended credentials.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Internal marketplace
- Teams can discover and share governed data products internally without copying the data.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: catalog gaps
- Reddit users report missing business glossary features, unclear quality indicators, incomplete asset-status signals and administrator tasks that require code.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: portability
- TrustRadius reviewers report weaker multi-cloud portability and vendor-lock-in concerns around proprietary capabilities.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: refresh reliability
- A Reddit discussion reports external Iceberg tables can stop refreshing without notice and describes some features as immature.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Lineage
- Horizon provides column-level and end-to-end lineage spanning Snowflake and connected external databases and BI systems.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Metadata permissions
- Metadata connector privileges allow users to curate metadata and lineage without granting access to the underlying data.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Natural-language discovery
- Snowflake CoCo searches tables, dashboards, notebooks, agents and external BI metadata using natural language.checked 15 Oct 2026
- News: Horizon Context preview
- On October 12, 2026, Snowflake released Horizon Context in preview with external metadata sources, editing and expanded lineage.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- API billing
- Snowflake documents a planned charge of 0.5 credits per million Horizon REST API calls, with cross-region egress charged separately.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: cost
- TrustRadius and Gartner reviewers repeatedly flag Snowflake’s pricing and cost management as concerns.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- Snowflake was founded in 2012.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- Crunchbase lists Snowflake headquarters in San Mateo, California, United States.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the maker as Snowflake Inc., a public company traded as NYSE:SNOW.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Snowflake in the 5,001–10,000 employee range.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2012checked 4 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile app
- Snowflake CoWork provides conversational AI, specialized agents, file and photo attachments, voice input and biometric login for accounts configured with CoWork.checked 15 Oct 2026
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