Comment by IanCal

But McDonalds absolutely can tell you an objective measure of what they charge you based on what you're getting. They charge you x per burger and y per fries and ...

The examples contained CPU and ram but that's not what they say everything should be - just some objective measure.

Snowflake charge by time, storage and size of machine - though they never tell you what the machine actually is underneath. I don't know what their "large" is.

Maybe it's by concurrent users, maybe amount of hours of support, maybe API calls.

I think the key thing was "we'd charge you X because you'd use Y" rather than "we'd charge you X because you look like you might pay it"