Pricingby GlyphSnowflake 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%
GPT-5.4default region · direct $2.5 / $15$3 / $18+20% vs direct$2.5 / $15+20%
Gemini 3.5 Flashdefault region · direct $1.5 / $9$1.8 / $10.8+20% vs direct$1.5 / $9+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.
Carries 40 of the models tracked here, from its own model catalog, checked Nov 9, 2026.
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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