Snowflake Cortex AI
Data platform · 20% on tokens · checked Sep 23, 2026
Models on Snowflake Cortex AI
7 model routes. 0 of 6 at the lab's own list price; the rest shown as a premium or discount.
Claude Opus 5.5default region · direct $4 / $20$4.8 / $24+20% vs direct$4 / $20+20%
Gemini 3.5 Flashdefault region · direct $1.5 / $9$1.8 / $10.8+20% vs direct$1.5 / $9+20%
GPT-5.4default region · direct $2.5 / $15$3 / $18+20% vs direct$2.5 / $15+20%
Llama 3.3 70B Instructdefault region$0.864 / $0.864n/an/a
Premium: blended price (3 input to 1 output) on this platform against the lab's own API. Regions are separate routes.
About Snowflake Cortex AI
Snowflake's in-platform LLM functions and REST API that run Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral and other models on Snowflake-managed compute.
- Fee on tokens
- 20%
- Pricing model
- Snowflake AI Credits per 1M tokens (input and output priced separately)
- Bring your own key
- No
- Entry plan
- Usage based
- Hosting
- Hosted
Dollar figures assume $2.00 per AI Credit, Global, On Demand, from Table 2(b) of the Snowflake Service Consumption Table (effective 2026-09-23); Regional AI Credits are $2.20
Features stated: none found. Not stated: Fallbacks, Load balancing, Caching, Guardrails, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, Prompts, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key, Data residency, Private networking.
The terms, in their words
- Markup
- Snowflake AI Credits per 1M tokens (input and output priced separately)
- Providers
- Table 6(a) lists roughly 80 AI_COMPLETE models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, xAI, Moonshot, Zhipu, Qwen, Snowflake and others
- AI_COMPLETE - claude-sonnet-4-6 1.80 9.00 (AI Credits per one million Tokens, input / output)
- Global $2.00 (On Demand AI Credit Pricing); Regional $2.20
- Additionally, Cortex Inference may not be eligible for Capacity AI Credit Pricing.
Source: www.snowflake.com/legal-files/CreditConsumptionTable.pdf
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