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Inside one Snowflake account, Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3.60/$18.00 per million tokens via AI_COMPLETE but $3.00/$15.00 via the REST API, and AI Credits never take your warehouse discount. Fix the AI path first, then move batch compute onto Iceberg. Leave the catalog last.
October 1, 2026 · 16 min read
Snowflake's CoCo automations reached preview on August 21, letting any user schedule an unattended AI agent. Each run executes as that user's default role plus every default secondary role — and EXECUTE AGENT TASK is granted to PUBLIC by default.
August 22, 2026 · 13 min read
Databricks lists 47 servable models to Snowflake's ~30, but Unity Catalog keeps Delta tables read-only to outside engines and Snowflake's own catalog blocks third-party writes outright. Snowflake's exit advantage is narrower than the decks claim: it writes into a catalog you own. On a normalised 10-million-ticket workload the platforms land within 2x of each other; the model tier swings the bill 40x.
August 3, 2026 · 16 min read