Snowflake and Anthropic sign $200M deal to power enterprise AI agents
The deal extends access to more than 12,600 global customers across all three major clouds and establishes a joint global go-to-market initiative focussed on deploying AI agents at large enterprises.
Snowflake and Anthropic announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership with a multi-year, $200 million agreement to bring Anthropic’s Claude models to Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
The deal extends access to more than 12,600 global customers across all three major clouds and establishes a joint global go-to-market initiative focussed on deploying AI agents at large enterprises. Claude will also power Snowflake’s enterprise intelligence agent, Snowflake Intelligence.
What does the partnership cover?
The expanded partnership builds on existing work where thousands of Snowflake customers are already processing trillions of Claude tokens per month through Snowflake Cortex AI.
The next phase targets deploying state-of-the-art AI agents on Snowflake capable of handling multi-step analysis, combining Claude’s advanced reasoning and secure handling of sensitive data with Snowflake’s governed data and AI environment.
The companies said this can help organisations, including those in regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and life sciences, move from pilots to production with confidence.
As an example, a wealth management firm can use Snowflake Intelligence, powered by Claude, to create an agent that synthesises client holdings with relevant market data and compliance rules to generate personalised portfolio recommendations within Snowflake’s security and governance perimeter.
Key benefits
- Turn data into action: Snowflake Intelligence, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5, is an enterprise intelligence agent designed to help business users analyse, reason, and gain insights from structured and unstructured data using 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 diverse data types text, images, audio, and more using SQL.
- Build custom, multi-agent solutions: Snowflake Cortex Agents enable users to build trusted, production-ready data agents to retrieve structured and unstructured data more accurately. Customers can power these agents with Claude to support accuracy, efficiency, and governance across workflows.
- Built-in governance and observability: When leveraging Anthropic models in Snowflake, Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides end-to-end governance and responsible AI controls to help teams bring AI agents into production with confidence.
Internal use and customer traction
Snowflake uses Claude internally across engineering and sales, including Claude Code to enhance developer productivity and a Claude-powered GTM AI Assistant, built using Snowflake Intelligence, to help sales teams centralise data, ask questions in natural language, and find insights that accelerate deal cycles.
Dave Lynch, VP Engineering, Intercom, said: “We leverage Anthropic’s Claude models in Snowflake Cortex AI and 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.
We will continue to seek out places where we can build on strong security and governance foundations of the Snowflake platform to drive impact for our customers and revenue for Intercom.”
Co-innovation at product level
“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,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake. “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. Together, the combined power of Snowflake and Claude is raising the bar for how enterprises deploy scalable, context-aware AI on top of their most critical business data.”
“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. It’s a meaningful step toward making frontier AI genuinely useful for businesses,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-founder, Anthropic.