We are thrilled to announce the availability of Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic’s most capable model available to customers on Snowflake Cortex AI. As a launch partner with Anthropic, we’re providing same-day availability of Claude Opus 4.5 in private preview. It is available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Cortex AI Functions and Cortex REST API, and will be coming soon in Snowflake Intelligence. 

Claude Opus 4.5 

Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s new premium frontier model and its most intelligent to date. It sets a new standard across coding, agents, computer use and office tasks, outperforming both Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1 at a price point that’s 3 times cheaper than Opus 4.1. 

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What you can do with Claude Opus 4.5 on Snowflake

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 joins other leading frontier models in Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling a wide range of enterprise use cases, all within Snowflake’s security and governance perimeter. With Claude Opus 4.5, you can:

• Build enterprise intelligence agents: Snowflake Intelligence (generally available) introduces a new category of intelligent, enterprise AI  agents designed to transform how organizations work, collaborate and innovate by fostering a truly data-driven culture. Every employee, regardless of technical depth, can ask complex questions in natural language, uncover the “why” behind every “what” and take confident action, all within Snowflake’s secure and governed perimeter. For developers, admins and builders, Opus 4.5 extends this foundation, enabling the creation of advanced agents that reason across complex data, write and execute code autonomously and orchestrate analytical and operational workflows.

• Analyze multimodal data with unparalleled precision: With Cortex AI Functions, analysts can use Claude Opus 4.5 directly within the data warehouse. Native SQL functions unlock cost-efficient AI pipelines that can classify, filter and synthesize insights across both structured tables and unstructured data such as text and images, turning frontier model performance into a simple, scalable analytics tool. 

Using Claude Opus 4.5 in Snowflake 

AI Functions

Cortex AI Functions make it easy to build scalable AI pipelines across multimodal enterprise data using familiar SQL. Cortex AI Functions deliver high-performance processing at a lower cost than manually orchestrated AI pipelines, enabling trusted insights across the enterprise while maintaining the security and governance capabilities Snowflake is known for. For example, with the AI_COMPLETE function, analysts can apply natural language instructions directly in SQL, leveraging state-of-the-art models like Opus 4.5.

REST API

Developers can use the Cortex REST API for low-latency use cases, leveraging prompt caching to reduce costs and accelerate repeat queries, as well as Opus 4.5’s enhanced tool-calling to run complex workflows more efficiently.

Looking Ahead

Snowflake prioritizes security and privacy, and Anthropic is dedicated to building secure, reliable AI, creating strong alignment in delivering cutting-edge innovations. Claude Opus 4.5 is now available within the secure Snowflake perimeter for use with Cortex AI Functions and the Cortex REST API, and will be coming soon to Snowflake Intelligence. Together, Snowflake and Anthropic are empowering enterprises to harness frontier intelligence safely and at scale, transforming how data and AI come together across every workflow.

Learn More: 

• Read our launch announcement for  Snowflake Intelligence and learn more about it here.

• Watch the Snowflake Intelligence demo to see these capabilities in action.

• Gain insights from structured and unstructured data with Snowflake Intelligence via this quickstart.

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