Databricks Mosaic AI vs Snowflake Cortex
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Databricks Mosaic AI
Build and serve models next to your lakehouse data
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Snowflake Cortex
SQL-callable LLM functions and agents that run inside Snowflake
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Free tier | 14-day trial with $400 usage credit; a no-cost 'Free Edition' also available via email signup | 30-day trial, $400 usage credit (or $40 for Cortex Code CLI); no card required to start |
| Paid from | DBU-based, from ~$0.07-0.08/DBU for model serving | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2013 | 2012 |
| Maker | Databricks, Inc. (from MosaicML, acquired 2023) | Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Żukowski |
| Verdict | Mosaic AI's whole argument is data gravity: train, fine-tune, and serve models where your data already lives instead of exporting it to a separate AI platform. It's the generative-AI layer of the Databricks lakehouse — M... |
If your data already lives in Snowflake, Cortex spares you from standing up a separate AI pipeline: you call an LLM the same way you'd call any SQL function. AI_COMPLETE, AI_CLASSIFY and AI_EXTRACT cover the common jobs,... |
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