Warehouse cost optimization

Warehouse and cluster compute, managed autonomously.

Switch on Altimate AI and immediately realize 10–30% savings on your Snowflake and Databricks compute bills with no human work required. AI agents analyze 200+ parameters and automatically adjust warehouse sizing, autoscaling, and suspension settings thousands of times per day to perfectly match workload requirements.

For Snowflake, this means continuous right-sizing across warehouse tiers — XS through 4XL — plus multi-cluster autoscaling tuned to real concurrency patterns. For Databricks, it means automated cluster auto-termination, spot-instance migration, and job vs. all-purpose cluster governance applied based on job criticality and SLA requirements.

Make platform cost savings a team sport.

Altimate AI continuously identifies opportunities for savings and efficiency across your Snowflake and Databricks environments, and provides tailored views to each of your internal teams. With just a click, an opportunity can be assigned to the right person — platform engineer, SQL developer, or data consumer — with the exact set of AI-generated change instructions included, and followed up until it's done.

Workload-level understanding.

Most solutions track cost at the virtual warehouse level or the individual query level. Altimate AI looks deeper — building a full understanding of entire query workloads and correlating run metrics with a multitude of other events: warehouse configuration changes, code deploys, task failures, data volume spikes. This pinpoints the exact causes of shifts in performance and cost across both Snowflake and Databricks environments over time.

Expert query advice, with just a click.

Altimate AI analyzes every query across dozens of dimensions and applies deep knowledge of cost and performance improvement techniques — delivering precise change instructions, not generic advice. For Snowflake, this includes clustering key and materialized view recommendations with projected credit savings. For Databricks, it includes OPTIMIZE, ZORDER, and VACUUM scheduling with measured I/O reduction. You can quickly target and refactor the most frequent and most expensive queries in your environment, ensuring you get maximum value for every dollar spent.

The hidden cost of your tables, exposed.

Storage is relatively cheap. But the true cost of a table goes far beyond its size on disk. Altimate AI uncovers the real cost of every table: not just storage, but the compute cost of the pipelines that build and refresh it, and platform-specific hidden costs — Snowflake's failsafe and time-travel overhead, or Databricks Delta log bloat — that can balloon to many times the visible storage cost under certain usage patterns.

Then the AI goes a step further: is the table even read? Can the pipeline be stopped and the table dropped entirely? This deep analysis of total cost versus value delivered helps teams dramatically reduce spend and simplify pipelines in ways they've never been able to before.

Needles from haystacks, in seconds.

Altimate AI dives into individual queries — quickly parsing and understanding thousands of lines of SQL code, calling out the specific lines that are responsible for cost and performance problems, and making recommendations on exactly what should be changed. Cartesian joins, missing filter pushdowns, repeated full-table scans, inefficient CTEs — identified with precision across both Snowflake and Databricks SQL dialects, with side-by-side before/after cost projections for every recommendation.

Prevent costly mistakes during development.

Altimate AI works side-by-side with your SQL developers — detecting anti-patterns and guiding on best practices as queries are being written, before they reach production. Immediate feedback is provided in the IDEs your team is already using (VS Code, JetBrains, dbt Cloud IDE), as well as within your existing Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines. The lowest-cost fix is the one that never reaches production.

Perform admin tasks autonomously.

Your most common platform tasks — finding dormant users, detecting unused tables, and analysing expensive warehouses — are fully automated. Altimate AI surfaces issues, assigns owners, and tracks resolution, freeing your team to focus on higher-value work instead of routine housekeeping.