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Amplitude vs Snowflake Analytics comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.7
Amplitude enhances targeting and personalization, saving time and effort, but higher pricing requires careful consideration for ROI.
Sentiment score
5.6
Users experience mixed ROI with Snowflake; it often improves operational efficiency, time savings, and cost control.
I have seen a return on investment with Amplitude, saving about 120 man hours per month for a specific report that needs to be created.
Technical Co-Founder at Crankshaft.ai
All teams' decision-making became based on the data extracted by Amplitude, which contributed to a positive data-driven cultural movement.
Growth Marketer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It has saved us a lot of time since I can see the analysis as quickly as possible in the dashboard, resulting in significant time and money saved.
Senior data engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Snowflake Analytics has positively impacted our organization by saving about eight to ten hours per week, which we can use for advanced analytics and automation tasks.
Junior Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
Amplitude's customer service is timely with multiple channels, though technical expertise varies, complemented by an active Slack group.
Sentiment score
6.9
Snowflake Analytics support is often responsive and competent, but accessibility issues exist for non-major partners, despite strong community resources.
You can pursue answers whichever way you would prefer through the normal support routes or you can source it from the community that they offer on Slack.
Data Analyst & Data Protection Officer at WeSalute
There could be live chat support for different types of charges or solutions that would be more helpful.
Data Science Engineer at BebopBee, Inc.
The customer support was really good, with the CSM being ready for action almost 24/7.
Growth Marketer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The Snowflake Analytics documentation is excellent.
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Recently we had a two-day session where the Snowflake Analytics team provided a demo on Cortex AI and its features.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
The technical support for Snowflake Analytics is excellent based on what I have heard from others.
Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Amplitude is highly praised for its scalability, handling large data and real-time processing efficiently for millions of users.
Sentiment score
7.7
Snowflake Analytics offers exceptional scalability through auto-scaling, cloud integration, and efficient resource management, ideal for handling large data volumes.
Amplitude's scalability is fine; I have millions of active users, tens of millions, with high throughput, and it performs great.
Technical Co-Founder at Crankshaft.ai
It doesn't have any data sampling like Google Analytics, making the data reliable and satisfying.
Growth Marketer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Amplitude is very scalable, considering that we do not have to do any manual work ourselves.
Data Analyst & Data Protection Officer at WeSalute
Storage is unlimited because they use S3 if it is AWS, so storage has no limit.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
It supports both horizontal and vertical scaling effectively.
Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd
Maintaining security and data governance becomes easier with an entire data lake in place, and the scalability improves performance.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Amplitude is praised for stability and speed with large datasets, though improvements in latency and error messages are suggested.
Sentiment score
8.4
Snowflake Analytics is highly stable, supported by major cloud providers, with strong performance and minimal technical issues reported.
I did not notice any delays or issues with Amplitude's performance and speed when handling large datasets.
Senior Business Analyst at Arcteryx
Snowflake Analytics has been stable and reliable in my experience.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
Snowflake Analytics is very stable; I have never experienced any crash downs or server issues.
Junior Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Snowflake Analytics is stable, scoring around eight point five to nine out of ten.
Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd
 

Room For Improvement

Users desire improved report setup, visualization, query building, tagging, data retention, support, and feature discovery for enhanced analytics.
Snowflake Analytics struggles with data migration, integration, performance, cost issues, and needs better UI, job scheduling, and AWS support.
Support could be improved. Sometimes I need to create a ticket and communicate with one of their advisors via email.
Data Science Engineer at BebopBee, Inc.
Longer form time series analysis seems nearly impossible to do on this platform.
Data Analyst & Data Protection Officer at WeSalute
Reconciling clickstream data with Databricks or other AWS systems could help analysts spend less time verifying the accuracy of both sources, which would be really helpful.
Senior Business Analyst at Arcteryx
AIML-based SQL prompt and query generation could be an area for enhancement.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
If it offered flexibility similar to Oracle and supported more heterogeneous data sources and database connectivity, it would be even better.
Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd
I would prefer Snowflake Analytics to improve their support response times, as sometimes the responses we receive are not very prompt and ticket assignments may not be timely.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
 

Setup Cost

Amplitude's high pricing and complex billing for larger data volumes cause challenges and lengthy negotiations for users.
Snowflake Analytics uses a pay-as-you-go model, emphasizing strategic design to manage costs, often seen as competitively priced.
Pricing is often egregiously high, and the company has changed billing models on us once already.
Data Analyst & Data Protection Officer at WeSalute
We are using a free version and would upgrade to a paid version if it were cheaper.
CEO at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amplitude's pricing is good and not overpriced; it is fair for the amount of data we are extracting and the analysis we perform.
Senior data engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Snowflake charges per query, which amounts to a very minor cost, such as $0.015 per query.
BI Developer at DivVerse LLC
Snowflake is better and cheaper than Redshift and other cloud warehousing systems.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
Snowflake Analytics is quite economical.
Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd
 

Valuable Features

Amplitude excels in segmentation, cohort analysis, and integration, enhancing data-driven decision-making and user experience optimization.
Snowflake Analytics provides scalable, secure, and user-friendly analytics with cloud integration, supporting diverse data needs and flexible data sharing.
Based on Amplitude charts and outcomes, our product team takes decisions, so it has improved decision-making.
Data Science Engineer at BebopBee, Inc.
Amplitude has positively impacted my organization as it allows us to make decisions based on data and iterate faster.
CEO at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Collaboration was a significant part. What improves collaboration is the self-serve functionality, which was a big deal for PMs to have access to just that data and also the base layer of how that data is structured, which connects to clicks that every report refers to.
Senior Business Analyst at Arcteryx
Running a considerable query on Microsoft SQL Server may take up to thirty minutes or an hour, while Snowflake executes the same query in less than three minutes.
BI Developer at DivVerse LLC
Snowflake Analytics supports data security with a single sign-on feature and complies with framework regulations, which is highly beneficial.
Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd
Previously, we faced issues with slow queries due to traditional systems, but within Snowflake, we can assign separate virtual warehouses for reporting as well as data processing, ensuring that it does not impact tool performance and does not delay reporting to business users.
Junior Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amplitude
Ranking in Web Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Customer Data Analysis (1st), Mobile Marketing and Advertising (2nd), User Activity Monitoring (5th), AI Data Analysis (10th), AI Customer Experience Personalization (10th)
Snowflake Analytics
Ranking in Web Analytics
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Web Analytics category, the mindshare of Amplitude is 13.1%, down from 16.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snowflake Analytics is 3.4%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amplitude13.1%
Snowflake Analytics3.4%
Other83.5%
Web Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Saurav Bhattacharjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Analyst at Arcteryx
Empowers teams to build visualization-rich reports and make faster decisions using historical user behavior data
I think areas for Amplitude's improvement include data retention. The maximum data I have worked with, the clickstream data on Amplitude, is two years, whereas we rely on Tableau for historical data of at least two years. I am not sure whether it was my organization paying for lower retention or not, but having historical data would take away the reliance on Tableau. Secondly, reconciling clickstream data with Databricks or other AWS systems could help analysts spend less time verifying the accuracy of both sources, which would be really helpful. Lastly, a more focused approach on error logs is necessary. I have found that, at least with Intuit, we used Splunk more for error logs than Amplitude. Although Amplitude had the capability, developers seemed to prefer Splunk, so if that could be improved, it would be good.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Daily restaurant dashboards have become faster and now support simultaneous team analytics
Some of the best features of Snowflake Analytics is how it is separated for compute and storage, which allows multiple teams to run queries without performance impact. Our project has more than nine or ten teams, so if a team is working on a particular dashboard and another team wants to work on Snowflake Analytics, they can easily work on it without disturbing the work of one team, ensuring that the work can be consistent and multiple users can use the tool simultaneously. This is one of the main features I appreciate about Snowflake Analytics.The other aspect is how the query performance is high due to its columnar storage and also automatic optimization, allowing for scaling down during weekdays when there is less data and scaling up during weekends or festivals when the data can be huge. Because of this automatic scaling, if there is less data, we are using only 5 GB instead of 10 GB, which reduces the storage level, and consequently, the cost can be reduced. This automatic scaling and optimization saves us a huge amount of money for our project. Snowflake Analytics has impacted our organization positively by providing faster query performance and better scalability. Previously, we faced issues with slow queries due to traditional systems, but within Snowflake, we can assign separate virtual warehouses for reporting as well as data processing, ensuring that it does not impact tool performance and does not delay reporting to business users. Analysts can run complex queries without affecting ETL workloads due to this separation, which has improved our speed of reporting, and our business users have expressed happiness due to how fast we are generating reports during peak hours.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Insurance Company
8%
Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amplitude?
Amplitude can be improved by allowing more than a two-year look back window for most analyses. Usually, all they offer is that two-year look back window, and longer form time series analysis seems ...
What is your primary use case for Amplitude?
Amplitude is our main product insights system, and it allows us to view the activity on our website and quantify certain KPIs about how users interact with the site. We measure things such as month...
What advice do you have for others considering Amplitude?
I chose a rating of nine out of ten because Amplitude has virtually every functionality that we need except for the aforementioned lack of long form time series analysis, and their pricing is often...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake Analytics?
The pricing for Snowflake Analytics is reasonable, but as I am not part of the management team, I am not certain about our organization's exact costs. Overall, the return on investment for this too...
What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?
One improvement Snowflake Analytics could benefit from is in cost, particularly during peak hours. Sometimes, due to its automatic scalability, we think it has scaled up, but it does not always hap...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake Analytics?
I am using Snowflake Analytics because we are already using Snowflake for data engineering and data warehousing tasks, and we are using it for analytics as well as business intelligence reporting. ...
 

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Sample Customers

Nokia, Yik Yak, QuizUp, CrunchBase, Rhapsody, PlanGrid, Acquia, Patreon, SeatGeek, Etermax
Lionsgate, Adobe, Sony, Capital One, Akamai, Deliveroo, Snagajob, Logitech, University of Notre Dame, Runkeeper
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