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Runs models and text analytics directly against Snowflake data.

Current version

2026 release

Entry cost

Consumption-based credit pricing

Changes / 30d

1

Capabilities

  • SQL LLM functions
  • Cortex Analyst
  • Cortex Search
  • Document AI
  • Fine-tuning

Pricing

  • Consumption

    per credit

    Free

  • Enterprise

    custom

    Free

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Claude

    Anthropic

    disclosed

  • Llama

    Meta

    disclosed

  • Mistral

    Mistral

    disclosed

  • Arctic

    Snowflake

    disclosed

Context window

Varies by model

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • Warehouse-native inference
  • Semantic model YAML

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • model

    Claude models made available natively inside Cortex

    Llama, Mistral, ArcticClaude, Llama, Mistral, Arctic

    source