Snowflake Cortex Agents
Enterprise AI
Cortex Agents is a fully managed agentic platform for building and running AI agents inside Snowflake's governed environment. An agent reasons over a request, plans the work, calls tools, executes code, and generates a response — without you building or operating your own orchestration loop, runtime, or sandbox infrastructure.
$2.00
Per AI Credit (Global)
Standard routing rate
$2.20
Per AI Credit (Regional)
Regional routing rate
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Reasoning Loop Steps
Plan, use tools, reflect and respond
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Access Interfaces
REST API, Snowflake CoWork, Cortex Code
Enterprise Capabilities
What Cortex Agents does inside Snowflake's governed environment.
Cortex Analyst (Structured Data)
Generates SQL over your structured data using Cortex Analyst semantic views — no separate text-to-SQL pipeline to build or maintain.
Cortex Search (Unstructured Data)
Retrieves insights from unstructured sources via Cortex Search, then reasons over structured and unstructured results together in one workflow.
Coding Agent (GA)
Add the code_toolset_all tool type to provision a managed sandbox — bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills — on the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo.
MCP & Custom Tools
Connect external services via MCP, or extend agents with your own stored procedures and UDFs — alongside built-in web search.
Evaluation & Versioning
Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations let you control versioned configuration for scoring, with agent version targeting for controlled rollout.
Plan → Use Tools → Reflect
Agents parse a request, select and call the right tools, then evaluate the result before deciding whether to ask a clarifying question, call another tool, or respond — no orchestration loop to build yourself.
How Cortex Agents Is Priced
Billed in AI Credits per million tokens processed — not a separate per-model tier like a standalone foundation model.
AI Credits
$2.00 global / $2.20 regional per credit
Cortex Agents are billed in AI Credits per million tokens processed. Costs are additive across the underlying services an agent invokes — for example, a single request that calls both Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search is billed for both.
Access Interfaces
Implementation Approach
How we deploy Snowflake Cortex Agents for enterprise clients.
Data & Workflow Audit
We map which workflows need structured data (Cortex Analyst), unstructured retrieval (Cortex Search), or both — and where a governed agent replaces manual analysis work.
Agent Configuration
Configure the agent's tool set — semantic views, search services, custom stored procedures, MCP connectors — within your existing Snowflake governance and access controls.
Evaluate & Version
Use Cortex Agent evaluations to score agent versions before rollout, and monitor AI Credit consumption across the services each agent invokes.
Snowflake Cortex Agents for South African Enterprises
AgentAgency.ai is headquartered in Cape Town and deploys Snowflake Cortex Agents across South African enterprise workflows — with POPIA compliance, King IV governance alignment, and AWS Cape Town (af-south-1) data residency. The Draft National AI Policy published by Cabinet on 10 April 2026 introduces risk-tier oversight under the FSCA, SARB, SAHPRA, and the Information Regulator, and our deployment blueprint for Snowflake Cortex Agents is engineered for those obligations from day one.
POPIA-first architecture
Snowflake Cortex Agents workloads run against AWS Cape Town (af-south-1) or Azure South Africa, with purpose limitation and data residency enforced at the prompt boundary and full audit logs retained for Information Regulator review.
FSCA & SARB evidence pack
Model cards, decision logs, explainability artefacts, and SARB model risk management documentation — ready for FSCA Conduct Standard examinations and the sector-regulator oversight assigned under the Draft National AI Policy.
Local Cape Town team, SAST hours
Implementation, compliance advisory, and customer success are delivered from Cape Town in SAST (GMT+2) — closing the shadow-AI governance gap that the South African GenAI Roadmap 2025 found affects 85% of SA enterprises.
Deploy Snowflake Cortex Agents
for Your Enterprise
Our consultants scope and configure Cortex Agents against your actual Snowflake data — governed, evaluated, and handed over.
Governed Data • SOC 2 • Enterprise Grade