Key findings
- Snowflake Intelligence opened to customers on August 1, 2025 and reached general availability on November 4, 2025.
- SQL still uses the old name. Scripts create a SNOWFLAKE INTELLIGENCE object, restrict users with ALLOWED_INTERFACES = (SNOWFLAKE_INTELLIGENCE), and set per-user quotas on a SNOWFLAKE INTELLIGENCE domain.
- Artifacts (June 17), Deep Research (July 7), the iOS app (July 13), Automations (September 11), and document generation (October 14) reached general availability in 2026.
- User skills (August 18) are in beta. Cortex Sense, the Skill Catalog, Agent Studio, the Slack bot, and the Excel extension, announced as beta or coming soon, had no release note on October 25, 2026.
- CoWork is billed in AI Credits by token use at US$2.00 per AI Credit on global routing and US$2.20 on regional routing, with no per-seat fee.
Existing Snowflake Intelligence customers need to change nothing after the June 2, 2026 rename to Snowflake CoWork. Agents, objects, grants, and billing carried over. Plan rollouts on the generally available features, and treat the Summit announcements as roadmap until each one has a release note.
What the rename changed
The rename widened CoWork's brief. Snowflake describes CoWork as a personal work agent for knowledge workers, where Snowflake Intelligence launched as conversational analytics. The same Summit renamed Cortex Code to Snowflake CoCo, the coding agent data teams use to build the semantic views and agents CoWork runs.
Documentation pages moved to the snowflake-cowork path, and the old snowflake-intelligence address redirects there. Object names, privileges, and the SNOWFLAKE_INTELLIGENCE_OBJECT_DEFAULT object keep the old name, so existing grants and scripts keep working.
Feature status on October 25, 2026
The dates below come from Snowflake's release notes, which GILD rechecked that day.
- Released to all customers: Snowflake Intelligence (November 4, 2025), Cortex AI Guardrails for CoWork and Cortex Agents (May 14, 2026), Artifacts (June 17, 2026), and Deep Research (July 7, 2026). Also released: the iOS app (July 13, 2026), Automations (September 11, 2026), and document generation (October 14, 2026). Document generation writes PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and HTML files and needs the code execution tool on the agent.
- In beta: user skills (August 18, 2026). HTML output entered preview on September 17, 2026 and became generally available with document generation.
- Announced at Summit as beta or coming soon, with no release note yet: Cortex Sense, the Skill Catalog, Agent Memory, and the Agent Router. The same holds for Agent Studio, the CoWork Slack bot, and a Microsoft Excel extension. Ask your Snowflake account team for private preview access before a rollout plan depends on one.
Pricing and controls moved with it
CoWork now appears in Snowflake's AI Credit pricing. AI Credits are separate from Platform Credits, cost the same on every edition, and drop with contract value from US$2.00 on global routing. Orchestration is billed per million tokens at the chosen model's rate in Table 6(d) of the Service Consumption Table. Snowflake reissued that table on October 15, 2026, three days after the October 12 edition GILD first checked.
Spend controls arrived alongside. Resource budgets have covered the CoWork object since March 11, 2026, and per-user quotas can block a user on CoWork and other AI features until the cycle resets.
Methodology
GILD analysis of Snowflake's product page, Summit 26 press release, documentation, release notes, AI pricing page, and Service Consumption Table, checked October 12, 2026. The release notes and the consumption table were rechecked October 25, 2026. Availability labels are Snowflake's own, and every price is Snowflake's published rate, linked in Sources. Practitioner accuracy results, including Mastech's 30-question evaluation, are in the CoWork Signals.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Official documentation
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- Snowflake CoWork product page
- Snowflake press release: Snowflake CoWork Powers the Agentic Enterprise (Jun 2, 2026)
- Snowflake docs: Overview of Snowflake CoWork
- Snowflake docs: User access and settings for agents
- Snowflake release notes: Feature updates in 2026
- Snowflake release notes: New features in 2025
- Snowflake docs: Snowflake AI pricing
- Snowflake Service Consumption Table (effective Oct 15, 2026)
- Snowflake docs: Resource budgets for Snowflake CoWork
- Snowflake docs: Per-user quotas
- Snowflake docs: Document generation in Snowflake CoWork
- Snowflake docs: Automations in Snowflake CoWork
- Snowflake docs: Cortex AI Guardrails
- Snowflake release notes: Feature updates in 2026 (checked Oct 25, 2026)
- Snowflake release note: Document generation in Snowflake CoWork, general availability (Oct 14, 2026)
- Snowflake Service Consumption Table (effective Oct 15, 2026)