On December 3, 2025, Snowflake and Anthropic announced an expansion of their strategic partnership: a multi-year, $200 million agreement to make Anthropic’s Claude models broadly available on the Snowflake platform and to launch a joint go-to-market initiative for deploying agentic AI across large enterprises. The deal will make Claude available to more than 12,600 Snowflake customers and across major cloud providers including Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.
What the partnership delivers
The partnership is designed to let enterprises extract insights from both structured and unstructured data with Claude while preserving strict security and compliance controls. Key components include:
- Enterprise intelligence powered by Claude: Claude Sonnet 4.5 powers Snowflake Intelligence, an enterprise intelligence agent that answers natural-language queries over structured and unstructured data.
- Multimodal analysis: Through Snowflake Cortex AI Functions, customers can use Claude models — including Claude Opus 4.5, hosted by Snowflake on day one — to query text, images, audio, and tabular data via SQL.
- Building custom multi-agent solutions: Snowflake Cortex Agents enables customers to create production-ready data agents powered by Claude that retrieve and reason over structured and unstructured data with built-in accuracy and efficiency.
- Built-in governance and observability: Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides end-to-end governance and responsible AI controls so teams in regulated industries can move AI agents from pilot to production with confidence.
Accuracy and enterprise operation
The partnership’s next phase focuses on deploying AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis using Claude’s advanced reasoning and Snowflake’s governed data and AI environment. Business users can ask questions in plain English; Claude determines what data is required, pulls it from across the company’s Snowflake environment, and returns an answer. According to Snowflake’s internal benchmarks, the approach achieves greater than 90% accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks.
Combining Claude’s reasoning with Snowflake’s governed environment is especially relevant for regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and life sciences, enabling customers to advance from pilots to production without compromising security or compliance.
How Snowflake and Anthropic use Claude internally
Snowflake itself uses Claude widely for internal operations. Claude Code improves developer productivity and innovation across Snowflake’s engineering organization, and a Claude-powered GTM AI Assistant built on Snowflake Intelligence helps sales teams centralize data, ask natural-language questions, and accelerate deal cycles.
Thousands of Snowflake customers already process trillions of Claude tokens per month through Snowflake Cortex AI. The partnership’s upcoming efforts concentrate on rolling out Claude-powered agents that handle more complex tasks in production.
Customer examples and testimonials
- Simon Data, a composable customer data platform provider, uses Claude on Snowflake to surface previously hidden patterns and relationships while maintaining governance standards.
- Intercom uses Claude via Snowflake Cortex AI to power its Fin AI Agent. Dave Lynch, VP Engineering at Intercom, said: "This has transformed how we work with our customers to achieve increased Fin AI Agent automation rates for their support volume. Our engagements, especially with our biggest, most demanding customers, are holistically more efficient and more effective. We can do things we simply could not feasibly do before." (Original quote in English.)
As an example use case, a wealth management firm could deploy Snowflake Intelligence powered by Claude to synthesize client holdings with market data and compliance rules to generate personalized portfolio recommendations, all within Snowflake’s security and governance perimeter.
Getting started and availability
Customers can begin using Claude on Snowflake via a quickstart guide and learn more on Snowflake’s Enterprise page. The announcement notes that Claude is the only frontier model available across the three major cloud services—Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.
Executive remarks
Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic, said: "Enterprises have spent years building secure, trusted data environments, and now they want AI that can work within those environments without compromise." He described the partnership as an important step toward making frontier AI useful for businesses.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, commented: "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." He noted that Anthropic joins a small set of partners with nine-figure alignment, product-level co-innovation, and a proven record of execution for customers worldwide.
