Snowflake and Anthropic $200M Partnership Summary

Core Announcement

• Partnership: Multi-year, $200 million strategic agreement between Snowflake and Anthropic.
• Goal: Bring agentic AI to global enterprises, enabling complex, multi-step analysis.
• Scale: Makes Claude models available to Snowflake's 12,600+ global customers.
• Cloud Availability: Accessible via Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.

Key Capabilities and Benefits

• Enterprise Intelligence: Claude Sonnet 4.5 powers Snowflake Intelligence, an agent for natural language queries across structured/unstructured data.
• Multimodal Analysis: Use Claude models (including Opus 4.5) via Snowflake Cortex AI Functions to query text, images, audio, and tabular data using SQL.
• Custom Agents: Snowflake Cortex Agents allows building production-ready data agents powered by Claude.
• Governance: Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides end-to-end governance and responsible AI controls for regulated industries.

Performance and Adoption

• Current Usage: Thousands of Snowflake customers process trillions of Claude tokens per month via Cortex AI.
• Benchmark: Claude achieves >90% accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks (per Snowflake internal benchmarks).
• Internal Use at Snowflake:
  • Claude Code enhances developer productivity.
  • A Claude-powered GTM AI Assistant built on Snowflake Intelligence helps sales teams centralize data and speed up deal cycles.

Strategic Quotes

"Enterprises have spent years building secure, trusted data environments, and now they want AI that can work within those environments without compromise. This partnership brings Claude directly into Snowflake, where that data already lives." — Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic

"Snowflake's most strategic partnerships are measured not just in scale, but in the depth of innovation and customer value that we can create together. Anthropic joins a very select group of partners where we have nine-figure alignment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of executing together for customers worldwide." — Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake

Customer Examples and Results

• Simon Data: Uses Claude on Snowflake to uncover hidden data patterns while maintaining governance.
• Intercom: Powers its Fin AI Agent with Claude through Cortex AI. "This has transformed how we work with our customers to achieve increased Fin AI Agent automation rates for their support volume." — Dave Lynch, VP Engineering at Intercom
• Wealth Management Use Case: An agent synthesizes client holdings, market data, and compliance rules to generate personalized portfolio recommendations within Snowflake's secure environment.

Getting Started

• Quickstart Guide: Available for customers to begin using Claude on Snowflake.
• Enterprise Deployment: Anthropic's Enterprise page offers more information.
• Unique Position: Claude is the only frontier model available on all three major cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).