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Snowflake AI Data Cloud

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by Snowflake

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

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Snowflake's pricing page states "We keep pricing simple with a consumption-based pricing model"; the Standard, Enterprise and Business Critical editions set the per-credit rate rather than a subscription fee.

What it does

• Data analysis
• Vector search
• Knowledge retrieval

How it compares

• ClickHouse Cloud

  Four alternatives stand out in 2026, each strongest for a different workload: ClickHouse, Google BigQuery, Databricks, and Amazon Redshift. They diverge most on workload, cost, latency, and concurrency. Those dimensions decide fit for real-time, high-concurrency, and application-facing workloads where standard Snowflake warehouses can become expensive or difficult to tune.

  Official documentation · 19 Sep 2026

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Pricing

Pricing page · 2 Sep 2026

Re-confirmed 2026-09-02: the quoted sentence 'We keep pricing simple with a consumption-based pricing model.' is still live verbatim.

Sold within

Pricing page · 29 Sep 2026

Snowflake's pricing page sells the Snowflake Service in Standard, Enterprise and Business Critical editions with a self-serve free-trial signup: "There are two ways to buy the Snowflake Service: On-demand or pre-paid capacity."

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• Cortex Agents API service

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• Snowflake Cortex AI Platform

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

• Cortex Analyst API service

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

• Cortex Search API service

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

• Snowflake CoWork AI 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.

• Document AI API service

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

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