Snowflake Alternatives: Fix the AI Bill Before You Move a Table
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