Cost of SQL Warehouse scaled to 0 clusters

Malthe
Valued Contributor II

A SQL Warehouse can be scaled to a minimum of 0.

Presumably, there is still a cost to keeping the resource active, because we also have Auto-Stop which can completely stop the warehouse after a configurable amount of time.

This cost is not documented. If it was indeed totally free (i.e., no DBU consumption), what's an argument to ever stopping the warehouse? If not, what is the actual cost?