Snowflake: Models Intelligence, Performance & Price

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Analysis of Snowflake's models across key metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & more. This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best model provided by Snowflake for your use-case.

Most Intelligent

#1
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick
14

Intelligence index

Total 1 model

Fastest

#1
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick
132 t/s

Output speed

Total 1 model

Lowest Price

#1
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick
$0.50

Blended price (per 1M tokens)

Total 1 model

Snowflake currently offers Llama 4 Maverick.

Highlights

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Price

USD per 1M tokens (blended) · Lower is better

Intelligence Evaluations

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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GDPval-AA v2

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

𝜏³-BankingUpdated

Agentic tool use

Terminal-Bench v2.1

Agentic coding & terminal use

SciCode

Coding

Humanity's Last ExamUpdated

Reasoning & knowledge

GPQA Diamond

Scientific reasoning

CritPt

Physics reasoning

AA-Omniscience AccuracyUpdated

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination RateUpdated

1 - hallucination rate

AA-LCRUpdated

Long context reasoning

AA-Briefcase

Agentic knowledge work, Elo

AutomationBench-AA

Agentic SaaS workflows

No data available
Harvey LAB-AA

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

No data available
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AANew

Agentic business operations

No data available
IFBench

Instruction following

APEX-Agents-AA

Long-horizon agentic tasks

No data available
ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

No data available
MMMU-Pro

Visual reasoning

Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

While higher intelligence models are typically more expensive, they do not all follow the same price-quality curve.

Context Window

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better
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Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Pricing

Intelligence Index vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

While higher intelligence models are typically more expensive, they do not all follow the same price-quality curve.

Performance Summary

Output Speed vs. Price

Output speed: output tokens per second · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Price per token, shown in USD per million tokens. Price is a blend of cache hit, input, and output token prices using the selected ratio (default 7:2:1 cache-input-output).

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Latency: Time To First Token

Seconds to first token received · Lower is better
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Time to first token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models which share reasoning tokens, this will be the first reasoning token. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time vs. Price

End-to-end response time: end-to-end seconds to output 500 tokens · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant

Price per token, shown in USD per million tokens. Price is a blend of cache hit, input, and output token prices using the selected ratio (default 7:2:1 cache-input-output).

Further Analysis
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-120b (low)
131k
Open
15
$0.03
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Provider
Meta logo
Llama 4 Maverick
131k
Open
14
$0.06
132
1.00
4.78
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Provider

Key definitions

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Snowflake

Snowflake offers 1 model that we track: Llama 4 Maverick.

The most intelligent model available on Snowflake is Llama 4 Maverick with an Intelligence Index score of 14.

The fastest model on Snowflake by output speed is Llama 4 Maverick at 132.3 tokens per second.

The model with the lowest time to first answer token on Snowflake is Llama 4 Maverick at 1.00s. Lower latency means faster initial response time.

The most affordable model on Snowflake by blended price is Llama 4 Maverick at $0.50 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).

Yes, all 1 models on Snowflake support JSON mode for structured output.

Yes, all 1 models on Snowflake are open weight models.

Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.

When choosing a model on Snowflake, consider: intelligence (for quality-sensitive tasks), output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and features like context window size, JSON mode, or function calling support.