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Stop paying per query.
See what you'd save.

Your AI agents run thousands of queries an hour. Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery all charge for every single one. MinusOneDB doesn’t. Adjust the sliders — see the math.

$5,000+ Single Cortex AI query cost
70% CIOs cite AI cost as #1 barrier
$13B+ FinOps market (exists because per-query)

Your Numbers

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Drag the sliders to match your current infrastructure. The savings calculate in real time.

Current platform Snowflake
Current monthly spend (optional — for cross-check) —
Skip$500K
Monthly query count 500,000
1010M
Data volume indexed 500 GB
10 GB100 TB
AI agent query share 30%
5%90%
Need production redundancy? No — Base
AI query growth (quarterly) 50%
10%200%

Your Savings Breakdown

Year 1 projection with current inputs

Platform cost savings $0
FinOps savings (est.) $0
Compliance savings (est.) $0
AI acceleration value $0
MinusOneDB Base annual cost $0
Net Annual ROI
9.6x return
$1,543,125
6 wk Payback
$3.14M+ Year 2 net
$111K/mo SF bill in 12mo

Side by Side

Snowflake vs MinusOneDB

The structural difference isn’t features — it’s the pricing model.

Snowflake MinusOneDB
Pricing model Per query (credits) Per capacity
AI agent queries Each one burns credits All included
Monthly bill Unpredictable Fixed
Data location Their cloud Your infrastructure
Cost management overhead FinOps team ($360K+/yr) None
GDPR / data sovereignty Complex Built in
Query interface SQL REST API + JS SDK
Can move to capacity pricing? No (innovator’s dilemma) Already there
$5K+
Cost of one Cortex AI query on 1.18B records
9×
Increase in avg GDPR fine since 2019
80%+
Cost-solving SaaS grew through 2008 recession
6 wk
Typical MinusOneDB payback period

Q2 budget reviews are happening now.

Companies that lock in predictable costs before budgets freeze maintain their AI capabilities through the downturn. The ones that don't are throttling agents in 6 months. In a downturn, unpredictable costs get cut. Predictable costs survive.

80%+
Cost-solving SaaS grew
through 2008 recession

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