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Apr 10, 2026: Budgets for AI features (General availability)
You can now use custom budgets to track and control credit consumption for AI features, including AI Functions, Cortex Code, Cortex Agents, and Snowflake CoWork, broken down by the team or cost center consuming them.
Snowflake AI pricing
There are no per - seat fees. Automatic AI Credit discounts apply based on your annual contract value (ACV).
Parsing documents with AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT
There is no additional cost for using this parameter. OCR mode is recommended for fast, high - quality text extraction from scanned or text - heavy documents such as contracts, insurance claims, and manuals.
Apr 6, 2026: AI_SERVICES billing breakout for implemented AI Credits services
Snowflake introduces more granular billing service types for a subset of services currently billed under AI_SERVICES as part of the transition to AI Credits.
May 28, 2026: Planned price reduction for Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE
With this change, the effective price is targeted to be $0.35 per hour of audio processed for all customers — compared to previous prices of $0.47 per hour for Standard, $0.70 per hour for Enterprise, and $0.94 per hour for Business…
Parsing documents with AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT
There is no additional cost for using this parameter. OCR mode is recommended for fast, high - quality text extraction from scanned or text - heavy documents such as contracts, insurance claims, and manuals.
AI cost management and governance
Snowflake gives you a consistent way to understand, monitor, and manage AI usage alongside the rest of your platform activity. Across AI features, pricing is primarily based on consumption, including token - based usage where applicable, so…
Jan 27, 2026: Estimate token usage with AI_COUNT_TOKENS (General availability)
Jan 27, 2026: Estimate token usage with AI_COUNT_TOKENS (General availability) AI_COUNT_TOKENS, a Cortex AI helper function that helps users estimate token consumption and understand how prompt context impacts cost, is now generally…
Jan 26, 2026: Extract images from documents using AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT (Preview)
There is no additional cost for image extraction beyond the standard page - based billing for AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT.
Jan 22, 2026: AI_AGG and AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG (General availability)
Jan 22, 2026: AI_AGG and AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG (General availability) AI_AGG and AI_SUMMARIZE_AGG, AI - powered aggregation functions that help you to analyze and summarize large volumes of text data efficiently at scale, are now generally…