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Snowflake Arctic
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Snowflake Arctic
Snowflake's open-weights enterprise LLM.
Best for
Best for Snowflake-resident data teams running NL-to-SQL workflows.
At a glance
- Pricing
- open-source
- Setup time
- 1 hour
- Learning curve
- steep
- Last verified
- 5/26/2026
What we love
- ✓Best OSS model for SQL generation
- ✓Apache 2.0 license
- ✓Tight Snowflake integration
Where it falls short
- −Best ROI inside Snowflake stack
- −Behind DeepSeek on general reasoning
- −MoE size hard to self-host
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20262 tiers
Open-source
$0
perpetual
- ✓Apache 2.0
Snowflake Cortex
Credits
per token
- ✓Hosted in warehouse
Overview
Snowflake Arctic is a 480B MoE open-weights LLM built for enterprise tasks — SQL generation, instruction following, code. Apache 2.0 license.
Key features
- ●480B MoE / 17B active
- ●Apache 2.0 license
- ●SQL specialist tuning
- ●Cortex AI integration
- ●Snowflake-hosted inference
Best use cases
Natural-language SQL
Generate Snowflake SQL queries from English with high accuracy.
Cortex AI workflows
Power enterprise AI workloads inside Snowflake Cortex.
Integrations
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