Snowflake and Anthropic announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership. The multi-year, $200 million agreement will not only make Anthropic?s Claude models available in the Snowflake platform to more than 12,600 global customers across all three major clouds, but also establishes a joint global go-to-market (GTM) initiative focused on deploying AI agents across the world's largest enterprises. Claude will also serve as a key model powering Snowflake?s enterprise intelligence agent, Snowflake Intelligence, to transform the nature of work by delivering all an organization?s knowledge through one trusted agent that sparks curiosity, encourages exploration, and accelerates innovation.
This expanded partnership builds on Snowflake and Anthropic?s existing work together, where thousands of Snowflake customers are already processing trillions of Claude tokens per month through Snowflake Cortex AI. This next phase of collaboration is focused on deploying state-of-the-art AI agents on Snowflake capable of handling multi-step analysis, powered by Claude's advanced reasoning capabilities and ability to securely handle sensitive data. This enables understanding extensive context across financial, operational, and customer data, among others, reasoning through it carefully, and showing their work rather than just retrieving an answer.
By combining Claude's reasoning with Snowflake's governed data and AI environment, customers in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and life sciences can move from pilots to production with confidence. Snowflake and Anthropic Deliver Enterprise-Ready AI, By bringing Anthropic?s Claude models directly to organizations? governed, business-critical enterprise data in Snowflake, joint customers can accelerate the delivery of AI agents that create real-world value.
Key benefits of the partnership include: Turn Data Into Action: Snowflake Intelligence, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5, is an enterprise intelligence agent that puts insights at every user?s fingertips. It enables business users to analyze, reason, and gain insights from all of their structured and unstructured data, using only natural language prompts. Unlock Deeper Analysis with Multimodal AI: With Snowflake Cortex AI Functions, users can leverage Anthropic?s newest models, including Claude Opus 4.5, which Snowflake hosted on day one, to query all data types ?
from traditional rows and columns of numbers to text, images, audio, and more ? all while using SQL, the universal language they already know and love for managing data. Build Custom, Multi-Agent Solutions: Snowflake Cortex Agents empower users to build trusted, production-ready data agents to retrieve their structured and unstructured data more accurately.
Customers can power these data agents with Claude, helping ensure accuracy, efficiency, and governance at every step of the workflow. Built-In Governance and Observability: When leveraging Anthropic models in Snowflake, Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides end-to-end governance and responsible AI controls ? so teams can bring AI agents into production with confidence.
