Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies) |
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Apr. 30, 2026 | |
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| Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year The Company’s fiscal year ends on January 31. For example, references to fiscal 2027 refer to the fiscal year ending January 31, 2027.
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| Basis of Presentation | Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) and applicable rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all disclosures normally required in annual consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Therefore, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, which was filed with the SEC on March 20, 2026. In management’s opinion, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual financial statements and reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary for the fair statement of the Company’s financial position as of April 30, 2026 and the results of operations for the three months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025, and cash flows for the three months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025. The condensed balance sheet as of January 31, 2026 was derived from the audited consolidated financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP. The results of operations for the three months ended April 30, 2026 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year or any other future interim or annual period.
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| Principles of Consolidation | Principles of Consolidation The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Snowflake, its wholly-owned subsidiaries, and, prior to October 31, 2025, a majority-owned subsidiary in which the Company had a controlling financial interest. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company recorded noncontrolling interest in its condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended April 30, 2025 to recognize the minority ownership interest in its majority-owned subsidiary. Profits and losses of the majority-owned subsidiary were attributed to controlling and noncontrolling interests using the hypothetical liquidation at book value method.
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| Segment Information | Segment Information The Company has a single operating and reportable segment. The Company’s chief operating decision maker is its Chief Executive Officer, who reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis, including, but not limited to, the Company’s consolidated net loss, for purposes of making operating decisions, assessing financial performance, and allocating resources.The measure of segment assets is the total assets on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.
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| Use of Estimates | Use of Estimates The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, stand-alone selling prices (SSP) for each distinct performance obligation, software development costs, the expected period of benefit for deferred commissions, the fair value of intangible assets acquired in business combinations, the useful lives and impairment of long-lived assets, the carrying value of operating lease right-of-use assets, stock-based compensation, accounting for income taxes, and the fair value of investments in marketable and non-marketable securities. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and also on assumptions that management considers reasonable. These estimates are assessed on a regular basis; however, actual results could differ from these estimates.
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| Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncement and Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted | Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncement In July 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2025-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets, which provides a practical expedient related to the estimation of expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Topic 606, including those assets acquired in a business combination. The practical expedient permits an entity to assume that current conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the current accounts receivable and current contract assets. The Company adopted this guidance effective February 1, 2026 on a prospective basis, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements. In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, which simplifies the capitalization guidance related to internal-use software by removing all references to software development projects stages so that the guidance is neutral to different software development methods. The Company early adopted this guidance effective February 1, 2026 on a prospective basis, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements. Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which requires disclosure, on an annual and interim basis, of specified information about certain costs and expenses in the notes to financial statements. This guidance is effective for the Company for its fiscal year beginning February 1, 2027 and interim periods within its fiscal year beginning February 1, 2028 on either a prospective or retrospective basis. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its disclosures. In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-10, Government Grants (Topic 832): Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities, which provides guidance on the recognition, measurement, and presentation of government grants. This guidance is effective for the Company for its fiscal year and all interim periods beginning February 1, 2029 on either a modified prospective, modified retrospective or full retrospective basis. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its condensed consolidated financial statements. In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements, which clarifies interim reporting requirements and the applicability of Topic 270. This guidance is effective for the Company for all interim periods beginning February 1, 2028 on either a prospective or retrospective basis. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its condensed consolidated financial statements.
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| Revenue Recognition and Remaining Performance Obligations | Remaining Performance Obligations Remaining performance obligations (RPO) represent the amount of contracted future revenue that has not yet been recognized, including (i) deferred revenue and (ii) non-cancelable contracted amounts that will be invoiced and recognized as revenue in future periods. The Company’s RPO excludes performance obligations from on-demand arrangements as there are no minimum purchase commitments associated with these arrangements, and certain time and materials contracts that are billed in arrears. Portions of RPO that are not yet invoiced and are denominated in foreign currencies are revalued into U.S. dollars each period based on the applicable period-end exchange rates.
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| Strategic Investments | The Company’s strategic investments consist primarily of non-marketable equity securities recorded at cost minus impairment, if any, and adjusted for observable transactions for the same or similar investments of the same issuer (referred to as the Measurement Alternative).
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| Fair Value of Financial Instruments | Fair Value Measurements Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the reporting date. The accounting guidance establishes a three-tiered hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value as follows: Level 1 Inputs: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities accessible to the reporting entity at the measurement date. Level 2 Inputs: Other than quoted prices included in Level 1 inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the asset or liability. Level 3 Inputs: Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability used to measure fair value to the extent that observable inputs are not available, thereby allowing for situations in which there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability at the measurement date. The Company determines the fair value of its security holdings based on pricing from the Company’s service providers and market prices from industry-standard independent data providers. Such market prices may be quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1 inputs) or pricing determined using inputs other than quoted prices that are observable either directly or indirectly (Level 2 inputs), such as yield curve, volatility factors, credit spreads, default rates, loss severity, structural features, estimated cash flows, current market and contractual prices for the underlying instruments or debt, broker and dealer quotes, as well as other relevant economic measures. The Company’s derivative financial instruments, consisting of foreign currency forward contracts, are carried at fair value on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.The Company’s non-marketable equity securities accounted for using the Measurement Alternative are recorded at fair value on a non-recurring basis. When indicators of impairment exist or observable price changes of qualified transactions occur, the respective non-marketable equity security would be classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy because significant unobservable inputs or data in an inactive market are used in estimating their fair value. The estimation of fair value for these assets requires the use of an observable transaction price or other unobservable inputs, including the volatility, rights, and obligations of the securities the Company holds.The fair value was determined based on the quoted prices of the Notes in an inactive market on the last traded day of the fiscal quarter and has been classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
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| Intangible Assets | Cost and accumulated amortization of fully amortized intangible assets are removed from the Company's consolidated balance sheets when they are no longer in use. |
| Capped Call Transactions | The Capped Calls are separate transactions, and not part of the terms of any series of Notes. As the Capped Calls qualify for a scope exception from derivative accounting for instruments that are both indexed to the issuer’s own stock and classified in stockholders’ equity, the premiums paid for the purchases of the Capped Calls was recorded as a reduction to the additional paid-in capital and will not be remeasured as long as they continue to meet the conditions for equity classification.
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| Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets | |
| Treasury Stock, Policy | All shares of common stock subsequently repurchased were retired. Upon retirement, the par value of the common stock repurchased was deducted from common stock and any excess of repurchase price (including associated transaction costs) over par value was recorded entirely to accumulated deficit on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. |
| Net Loss Per Share | Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to Snowflake Inc. common stockholders is computed in conformity with the two-class method required for participating securities. The Company considers unvested common stock to be participating securities, as the holders of such stock have the right to receive nonforfeitable dividends on a pari passu basis in the event that a dividend is declared on common stock. Basic net loss per share attributable to Snowflake Inc. common stockholders is computed by dividing net loss attributable to Snowflake Inc. common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of Snowflake Inc. common stock outstanding during the period, which excludes treasury stock. Diluted net loss per share attributable to Snowflake Inc. common stockholders is computed by giving effect to all potentially dilutive Snowflake Inc. common stock equivalents to the extent they are dilutive. For purposes of this calculation, RSUs, stock options, restricted common stock, ESPP Rights, and shares underlying the conversion option in the Notes are considered to be common stock equivalents but have been excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share attributable to Snowflake Inc. common stockholders as their effect is anti-dilutive for all periods presented. The Company entered into the Capped Calls in connection with the Notes offering. The effect of the Capped Calls was also excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share attributable to Snowflake Inc. common stockholders as the effect of the Capped Calls would have been anti-dilutive. The Capped Calls are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon any conversion of the relevant series of the Notes. See Note 10, “Convertible Senior Notes,” for further details.
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