CloudZero now breaks out Snowflake Cortex spend on its own, so the AI usage buried in your Snowflake bill becomes a line item you can track and allocate before it ramps into a surprise.
Why this matters
Your Snowflake bill has picked up a new line of AI spend. Cortex, Snowflake’s built-in AI and LLM layer, can ramp fast as teams start using it, and until now that usage was folded into your overall Snowflake costs with no way to break it out. Now you can see Cortex spend on its own, watch it as adoption grows, and allocate it like any other cost, so a fast-moving AI workload becomes a managed line item instead of an end-of-quarter surprise.
What we built
The CloudZero Snowflake connection now collects and displays Snowflake Cortex spend. Cortex is Snowflake’s native layer for running AI and LLM functions directly inside the data platform, and its costs now appear in CloudZero alongside the rest of your Snowflake compute, storage, and data transfer spend, ready to filter and allocate.
How it works
To turn it on, rerun the Snowflake data-share script so it includes the expanded set of Cortex tables. If you also want your historical Cortex usage, run a historical ingest at the same time.
