Databricks AI (formerly Mosaic AI) vs Snowflake Cortex AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Databricks AI (formerly Mosaic AI)
Build, serve and govern AI agents next to your lakehouse data
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Snowflake Cortex AI
LLM functions, search and agents running inside the Snowflake data clo...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Usage_based | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Free Edition for learning only (no commercial use, no GPU serving, quota limits); 2-week trial with up to $400 of usage | 30-day trial with $400 in credits, no card to sign up, but AI features stay off until a card is added. CoCo CLI trial: $40 inference credit, then $20/month |
| Paid from | From $0.07/DBU for model serving (Premium, AWS US East); usage-based, varies by cloud and region | $2.00 per AI Credit on demand (global routing); models billed per million tokens |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Databricks, Inc. | Snowflake Inc. |
| Verdict | Databricks AI makes sense when your data already lives in Databricks: agents, model serving, AI Search and Unity Gateway governance all work against Unity Catalog without copying data to another platform. Agent Bricks an... |
Cortex AI is the natural way for Snowflake customers to use AI on their data: models are called from SQL or through agents without data leaving the platform, the model catalogue is broad, and the new CoWork and CoCo agen... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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