Palantir vs Snowflake

Palantir — Application · Public · $426.5B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Snowflake — Infrastructure · Public · $116B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Sourced partner

Sourced partner — “This collaboration with Palantir keeps Snowflake customers at the forefront of AI innovation by helping them to rapidly accelerate agentic app production.”

snowflake.com · checked 2026-09-09

Aligned comparison

FieldPalantirSnowflake
Market cap$426.5B$116B Snowflake has 3.7× smaller
Employees4,4019,060 Snowflake has 2.1× more
Founded20032012 9 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerInfrastructure service, PlatformAI agent, API service, Platform
HeadquartersAventura, USABozeman, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationData analysisWorkflow automation

Not verified for Snowflake · 2

Data securityIndustrial automation

Recorded for Palantir. Snowflake’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Palantir · 7

Agentic codingCode generationDocument extractionModel inferenceKnowledge retrievalText generationVector search

Recorded for Snowflake. Palantir’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Palantir

Platform

FoundryPlatform

Data integration and operations platform used to model, analyse and act on enterprise data.

GothamPlatform

Data platform for defence and intelligence users, covering investigation, targeting and mission planning.

Palantir AIPPlatform

Layer for building and running language-model workflows and agents against data held in Foundry and Gotham.

Palantir Warp SpeedPlatform

Manufacturing operating system built on Palantir's ontology and AIP that unifies engineering, production planning and supply-chain data into real-time operational workflows.

Snowflake

Platform

Snowflake AI Data CloudPlatform

Managed data platform for storing, querying and governing data, with model and agent features running next to it.

Snowflake Cortex AIPlatform

Set of model, search and agent features that run inside Snowflake against data already in the account.

No counterpart

Palantir sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Snowflake yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Infrastructure service

Palantir ApolloInfrastructure service

Continuous deployment and operations platform that pushes and manages software -- including Palantir's own AI platforms -- across multi-cloud, hybrid, private-SaaS, air-gapped and edge environments, encoding SLAs, constraints and security policy so releases and rollbacks run autonomously.

Snowflake sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Palantir yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Cortex AgentsAPI service

A REST API that orchestrates Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search and custom tools in a single reasoning loop for building enterprise AI agents.

Cortex AnalystAPI service

A Cortex API that converts natural-language questions into governed SQL against a semantic model for self-service analytics.

Cortex SearchAPI service

A managed hybrid vector-and-keyword retrieval service for building RAG applications over Snowflake-hosted structured and unstructured data.

Document AIAPI service

A Cortex document-processing service, built on Snowflake's Arctic-TILT model, that extracts structured data from PDFs and other unstructured documents.

AI agent

Snowflake CoCoAI agent

A data-native autonomous coding agent, rebranded from Cortex Code, that turns natural-language requests into pipelines, analytics, models, apps and agents from a desktop app, CLI or Snowsight.

Snowflake CoWorkAI agent

An enterprise AI work agent, rebranded from Snowflake Intelligence, letting knowledge workers question enterprise data and act across connected tools such as Slack, Gmail and Salesforce.