Snowflake consultants and partners, with the tier Snowflake shows

Snowflake's directory shows a tier tag on each listing, and its Partner Tier filter uses the same tags. Counting the tags across all 1,535 listings gives:

This is our count of the directory on October 23, 2026. It covers every partner type, including product, cloud and resale partners, and counts each listing separately, so one firm can appear several times. Elite is a tag on roughly one listing in nine. To see every Elite listing, open the directory and set the Partner Tier filter to Elite. Tracked firms with an Elite tag on at least one listing include Accenture, Deloitte, Slalom and phData; the firm table at the top of the page shows the rest.

Tags belong to listings, not to firms. In the directory, KPMG has KPMG LLP tagged Premier, KPMG AG Wirtschaftspruefungsgesellschaft tagged Elite and KPMG Lower Gulf Limited tagged Select. Accenture's main listing is tagged Elite and its federal listing Select. Check the listing for the entity that would sign your contract.

This is what Snowflake's own partner pages say:

• Partners can join as Registered at no cost. The Select, Premier and Elite tiers offer an expanded suite of program benefits, and an annual investment is associated with them.
• Requirements vary by partner type. Snowflake says partners can expect tiering requirements based on adoption metrics, revenue, certification and customer success thresholds.
• As partners reach higher tiers, the level of investment and program support from Snowflake increases.
• Snowflake's public page publishes no numeric thresholds. Treat any specific requirement quoted for a tier, such as a fixed number of certifications or implementations, as unverified unless it comes from a Snowflake document.

The directory also filters by region, cloud specialization (AWS, Azure, GCP), product category and industry competency. Partner pages show SnowPro Core and Advanced certification counts for the listing, which say nothing about the individuals on your project.

For the wider migration process on any platform, see platform modernization. If you have not settled on a platform, our guide to Snowflake versus Databricks consulting covers how the choice affects the partner you need.

The rates are role medians from GSA CALC+: data architect $158 an hour (913 records) and data engineer $149 (838 records). They are fully burdened ceiling prices on U.S. federal contracts, not commercial quotes, and commercial rates for the same roles are often higher. The hours are our assumptions: 40 hours a week for each full-time person. The last column reprices the same hours at the 25th and 75th percentile GSA rates (data architect $131 to $188, data engineer $125 to $183).

Snowflake's own charges come on top. Per Snowflake's documentation, warehouses consume credits only while running, billed per second with a 60-second minimum each time a warehouse starts or resumes, and a suspended warehouse uses no credits. The price per credit depends on edition and region and is listed on Snowflake's pricing page. Our data platform TCO analysis shows how to convert a budget into credits.

Case studies on partner pages are the partner's own account, and DCF Research has not verified them.

• A tier or badge presented as the reason to skip references.
• Firm-wide SnowPro counts used to suggest your team's depth, with no named people.
• A credit-consumption forecast with no workload assumptions.
• No resource monitors, warehouse sizing rules or cost reporting in the scope.
• A migration timeline or fixed price before anyone has assessed your code.
• Handover limited to training slides, with no runbooks or access transfer.
• A tier claim you cannot find in the directory. Ask for the listing name.