What type of costs are incurred when you use the Snowflake Cortex Search Service?
Snowflake's official documentation identifies "Serving Compute" as one of the core cost components of Cortex Search Services. Serving compute is a multi-tenant compute cost billed per GB per month of uncompressed indexed data (which includes the source text and vector embeddings) for as long as the search service remains resumed/available, independent of query volume. This is distinct from other Cortex Search cost components such as EMBED_TEXT token compute (charged when rows are inserted or updated) and virtual warehouse compute (used for refreshes), but among the given answer choices, "Serving compute" is the term Snowflake explicitly uses to describe this cost category.
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