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Snowflake AI Data Cloud

bySnowflake
in
4.7
Market Presence: Cloud Database Management Systems, Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms (Transitioning to AI Platforms For Data Science and Machine Learning)

Overview

Product Information on Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Snowflake AI Data Cloud?

Snowflake AI Data Cloud is a software designed to support organizations in storing, integrating, and analyzing structured and semi-structured data. The software facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration across teams and partners while enabling the deployment of machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows directly on cloud-based data. Snowflake AI Data Cloud provides features for data warehousing, data engineering, data lakes, and advanced analytics, addressing business challenges around unifying data silos, managing large volumes of information, and delivering insights with flexibility and scalability. The software supports multiple programming languages and tools, while offering data governance, compliance controls, and automation capabilities, enabling organizations to streamline their data operations and empower decision-making through real-time analysis and AI-powered applications.

Snowflake AI Data Cloud Pricing

Snowflake AI Data Cloud software adopts a consumption-based pricing model where charges are determined by the volume of compute resources utilized and the amount of data stored or transferred. Pricing varies depending on edition and usage, with additional costs for features such as dedicated compute or advanced data services. Users pay only for the resources consumed, and billing is measured based on compute credits and cloud storage.

Overall experience with Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Data and Analytics Manager
1B - 3B USD, Travel and Hospitality
FAVORABLE

“From PoC to Production: Snowflake Scales Smoothly With Our Growth; Reliable Core for Our Analytics and ML Workloads.”

5.0
Nov 10, 2025
My overall experience with Snowflake has been very positive. We run production workloads with a mix of batch, micro-batch, time-series, and analytical use cases, and Snowflake has handled them reliably with minimal operational overhead. The separation of storage and compute, easy scaling of warehouses, and ability to mix SQL with Snowpark/Python let us move quickly from prototype to production without re-architecting.
It Consultant Ii
1B - 3B USD, Healthcare and Biotech
CRITICAL

“Snowflake Offers Scalable Cloud Data Warehousing With Simplified Data Sharing Features”

3.0
Jan 22, 2026
Our overall experience with snowflake has been positive. Snowflake delivers highly scalable, cloud, native data warehouse with strong performance, low maintenance, and a clean separation of computer storage. It has streaming analytic workload, simplified data sharing, and reduced operational burden.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th August 2025

Snowflake's core offering is the AI Data Cloud, a unified platform and connected ecosystem where organizations can build, use, and share data, applications, and AI. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations can unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Its platform is the engine that powers this environment, providing a solution for data engineering, analytics, AI, applications, and collaboration. Snowflake’s vision is to help organizations turn data and AI possibilities into reality.

Company Details

Updated 13th August 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2012
Head office location
Bozeman, MT, United States
Number of employees
5001 - 10000
Website
http://www.snowflake.com

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Snowflake AI Data Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Performance and scalabilty with low ops overhead: warehouses scale up/down easily, concurrency is handled well, and we rarely have to think about infrastructure. 2. Integrated ecosystem: SQLSnowparkTask/Streams: being able to keep data, transformations, ML features, and orchestration all inside Snowflake is a big advantage. 3. Strong governance and security model: RBAC, masking policies, row-level security and the ability to segment environments are very powerful once set up. 4. Data sharing and external collaboration: Secure data sharing, listing, and the general single source of truth approach make it much simpler to collaborate across teams and partners without building custom data-exchange pipelines.

Like

Elastic computer model, low administrative management, and secure data sharing.

Like

Combination of simplicity, performance and scalability, combined with their constant improvement in all areas and new products and features delivery. Also previously we were needing bunch of tools and vendors in our environment, with SNowflake this is constantly shrinking to almost non needed.

Dislike

1. Complexity of advanced privileges and netwrking (SPCS/public endpoints) 2. Immature experience around debugging and observability for SPCS/Snowpark jobs. 3. Cost transparency and fine-grained cost attribution 4. Web UI and developer experience could be smoother: advanced IDE-style features during code development and highlighting code syntax.

Dislike

User based service cost spikes (managed with proper/strict governance), and vendor lock in concerns regarding proprietary features that can make portability harder.

Dislike

Not much, actually. But if I wold have to pick, one is actualy the naming of new stuff which might be confusing sometimes. Like Copilot Inline, Cortex Copilot, Cortex functions... similar naming for similar but different stuff.

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Peer Discussions

Snowflake AI Data Cloud Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(441 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
68%
4 Star
31%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Planning & Transition

4.5

Delivery & Execution

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • Data and Analytics Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    From PoC to Production: Snowflake Scales Smoothly With Our Growth; Reliable Core for Our Analytics and ML Workloads.

    5.0
    Nov 10, 2025
    My overall experience with Snowflake has been very positive. We run production workloads with a mix of batch, micro-batch, time-series, and analytical use cases, and Snowflake has handled them reliably with minimal operational overhead. The separation of storage and compute, easy scaling of warehouses, and ability to mix SQL with Snowpark/Python let us move quickly from prototype to production without re-architecting.
  • Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Snowflake Simplifies Data Management and Reduces Overhead for Growing Teams

    5.0
    Dec 3, 2025
    We are super happy with SNowflake. The platform is easy to use, we are getting more and more new features almost on a daily basis, and we have excellent support from the sales and technical team. Snowflake has removed moch of the complexity we had previously with data platform management (scaling-up and out), deployments,... There is little to no overhead required to manage an environment used by 50+ data engineers, 50+ analysts and 800+ users across product and tech teams. Our company continues to grow in all areas, yet the growth of our Snowflake spend remains below that pace, which is another major advantage.
  • DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Efficient ML Workflows With Snowflake

    4.0
    Oct 29, 2025
    Since adopting Snowflake, we have seen a significant reduction in our modeling time and the process is much easier than what we experienced in the past. Even during our transition period, the Snowflake team we collaborated with was immensely knowledgeable, responsive and guided us throughout, ensuring we experienced a smooth transition. Their support and expertise genuinely made a difference in helping us fully leverage the platform.
  • IT ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Effortless Data Connections and Python Support Offset Complex Cost Tracking Difficulties

    5.0
    Oct 13, 2025
    At its core, we use Snowflake for data warehousing to support cloud visualization tools and quick applet development for write-back/interaction with the data. The breadth of learning/documentation materials and intuitive interfaces have made connecting to disparate source data systems (SQL servers/Sharepoint/Restful APIs/ServiceNow/etc.) both less complex and consolidated into one place.
  • DIRECTOR QUALITY ENGINEERING
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Snowflake AI Cloud Integrates Data Warehousing and Engineering on One Platform

    5.0
    Nov 17, 2025
    Overall, Snowflake provides data insights using AI features along with Cotrex support. The queries generated by AI data cloud help businesses to get applications created and customized with a significant amount of time.
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