Snowflake's official documentation on Cortex Search Services costs identifies serving compute and cloud services compute as two of the named cost categories. Serving compute is billed per GB per month of indexed data (including vector embeddings) and accrues continuously while the service is resumed, regardless of query volume. Cloud services compute is consumed to detect changes in the underlying base objects and determine whether the search index needs to be refreshed; this cost is only billed when the daily cloud services usage exceeds 10% of the daily warehouse compute cost for the account. The other listed options — data transfer, mounting volume, and image repository storage cost — are cost concepts tied to Snowpark Container Services rather than Cortex Search Services, and do not appear among the documented Cortex Search cost categories.
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