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Routing deep-dives, runbooks, and field notes from the team building Melt.

Cost·9 min read

Why is my Snowflake bill so high?

Five reasons your Snowflake bill keeps climbing in 2026, the sixth one nobody is pricing in, and the fixes you can ship this week.

MT
Melt TeamMay 18, 2026
Diagnostics·6 min read

How much of your Snowflake bill is agent-shaped?

A copy-pasteable SQL diagnostic against QUERY_HISTORY that tells you, in one number, how much of your Snowflake spend is the kind no amount of warehouse tuning will fix.

May 16, 2026
Launch·4 min read

Cut your Snowflake bill, change one connection string

A routing proxy that sits in front of Snowflake and decides, per query, where each statement should run. The story behind why we built it.

May 7, 2026