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Pixel Data
vs Snowflake
Snowflake is an excellent engine priced for enterprises, and it will still need engineers to model your usage, a BI layer for anyone to read it, and a billing engine beside it to turn any of it into money. We include warehouse-grade usage analytics at a flat price — and on Scale we sync to your own Snowflake rather than asking you to leave it.
With Snowflake, you
- You pay enterprise pricing that moves every time somebody on your team runs a query.
- You need engineers to model your usage schema and keep the pipelines feeding it.
- You need a BI tool on top before anyone in finance can read a number.
- You still need a separate billing engine, because a warehouse can count events but cannot rate them.
With Pixel Data, you
- You get warehouse-grade analytics over every raw event at one flat monthly price.
- You get the schema, the pipeline and the dashboards already built for usage data.
- You get rating, statements and reconciliation in the same place as the analytics.
- You keep your warehouse: on Scale we sync rated usage straight into your own Snowflake account.
What it means for you
You stop paying for three tools and the engineering that joins them, and your bill stops moving every time someone gets curious.
Side by side
For usage data. Nothing else is claimed.
| For your usage data | Pixel Data | Snowflake |
|---|---|---|
| Stores every raw event | Yes | Yes |
| Fast aggregates over hundreds of millions of rows | Yes | Yes |
| Arbitrary non-usage data, joined to everything else | No | Yes |
| Full SQL against your own models | Via the Scale export connector | Yes |
| Usage schema, modelled for you | Included | An engineering project |
| Pipelines to keep it fed | Included | An engineering project |
| Dashboards anyone can read | Included | A separate BI tool |
| Rating engine and price plans | Yes | No |
| Supplier invoice reconciliation | Yes | No |
| Statements and an immutable audit trail | Yes | No |
| Cost modelA warehouse bill moves with how curious your team is. Ours does not. | Flat monthly price | Per query and per byte |
| Syncs to your own Snowflake accountYou keep the warehouse and pay Snowflake directly; we push rated usage into it. | On the Scale tier | n/a |
| UK data residency, stated plainly | Yes | Depends on region and plan |
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However you get here, you get these three
The same on every comparison, because they are the same three things none of these tools does.
Be live before the kettle boils
You run one line on the machine that already has your usage on it. No schema workshop, no engineering sprint, no project plan.
Defend any figure on any invoice
You click any amount through to its events, and any event through to the arithmetic — increment, minimum, matched prefix, plan version.
Get back what your carrier over-charged
You upload a carrier invoice and get a line-by-line verdict against what your own events say actually happened.
When Snowflake is the right choice
If you need to join usage to finance, CRM and product data and answer open-ended questions across all of it, keep Snowflake — it is far better at that than we will ever be. Use our Scale connector to feed it.
See your own usage on a dashboard today.
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