Snowflake Cortex
radarManaged LLM, RAG, and AI functions inside the Snowflake data cloud, priced in AI Credits.
Visit snowflake.com →> **Snowflake Cortex** — radar > Verified 2026-09-01 > Limitation: Radar: not field-run in this catalog wave. > > https://noemium.com/tools/snowflake-cortex/Add to kitOpen in NoemiumFact-check this radar listing for Snowflake Cortex (models-api). Noemium has not issued a verdict. Evidence tier: radar. Limitations: - Radar: not field-run in this catalog wave. - Requires a Snowflake account; AI Credit spend is separate from warehouse spend and can be hard to budget. Receipts: https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/cortex https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/pricing Last verified: 2026-09-01 Confirm the project still exists, the URL is canonical, and the limitations are still true. Do not invent a ship/skip stamp.
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Managed LLM, RAG, and AI functions inside the Snowflake data cloud, priced in AI Credits.
Radar · no verdict. Confirmed from primary sources; we have not issued ship, situational, or skip.
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No price move in this repo yet.
Known limitations
- Radar: not field-run in this catalog wave.
- Requires a Snowflake account; AI Credit spend is separate from warehouse spend and can be hard to budget.
Facts
- pricing
- paid1
- price note
- AI Credits at $2.00 (global) or $2.20 (regional) per credit; features billed per million tokens, pages, or GB-month.
- free tier
- no
- open source
- no
- api
- yes
- self-host
- no
- category
- models-api
- evidence
- radar
- Models
- locked
Sources
- 1snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/cortex[snapshot]
- 2docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/pricing[snapshot]
No source, no number.
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