Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake's native AI features.

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Best for

Best for Snowflake-shop data teams wanting native AI on warehouse data.

At a glance

Pricing: enterprise
Setup time: 1 day
Learning curve: moderate
Last verified: 5/26/2026

What we love

✓Data never leaves Snowflake
✓Native AI inside warehouse
✓Strong governance + audit

Where it falls short

−Snowflake-only
−Costs in Snowflake credits
−Best inside Snowflake-first stack

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

1 tier

Snowflake credits

Usage

per credit

✓AI runs against warehouse

Overview

Snowflake Cortex is Snowflake's suite of AI features — hosted LLMs, embedding functions, vector search, text-to-SQL, AI search. Run AI on data that never leaves Snowflake.

Key features

●Hosted LLMs in Snowflake
●Embedding functions
●Vector search
●Cortex Analyst (text-to-SQL)
●Cortex Search

Best use cases

Warehouse-native AI

Run AI on Snowflake data without exporting to external services.

AI search on enterprise data

Build natural-language search on Snowflake data.

Integrations

Snowflake

Streamlit

dbt

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