--- title: "Use LiteLLM with Snowflake Cortex Inference" url: https://daily.dev/posts/use-litellm-with-snowflake-cortex-inference-huq1rtwxw source_url: https://medium.com/snowflake/use-litellm-with-snowflake-cortex-inference-683f901bb7d1 type: article source: "Snowflake Community" published: 2026-07-01T14:07:47.596Z updated: 2026-07-01T14:27:25.513Z tags: ["ai", "ai-inference"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Use LiteLLM with Snowflake Cortex Inference **[Snowflake Community](https://daily.dev/sources/snowflake_comm)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Enterprise AI teams commonly build LLM gateways to centralize routing, policy enforcement, and spend tracking. Snowflake Cortex Inference integrates into this pattern by exposing OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible REST APIs, allowing teams to add Cortex as a backend without changing application-side clients. LiteLLM now officially supports Snowflake Cortex as a provider, enabling PAT-based auth, streaming, tool calling, and embeddings. Key benefits include reduced credential sprawl via a single Programmatic Access Token, inference running within the Snowflake security perimeter with RBAC governance, and AI spend visibility through SQL in the same platform used for other Snowflake cost tracking. A practical getting-started guide covers generating a PAT, configuring the gateway base URL, and testing with a raw curl request. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Centralized PAT Issuance in Snowflake \(for Cortex REST API\)](https://daily.dev/posts/centralized-pat-issuance-in-snowflake-for-cortex-rest-api--asmdeqp5x) · Snowflake Community · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Snowflake Unlocks Better AI Economics with Dynamic Model Routing](https://daily.dev/posts/snowflake-unlocks-better-ai-economics-with-dynamic-model-routing-ia2m0zeyl) · SD Times · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Snowflake Launches Cortex AI Gateway and Advanced AI Security at Black Hat 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/snowflake-launches-cortex-ai-gateway-and-advanced-ai-security-at-black-hat-2026-mrkwp28gz) · Snowflake · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-inference](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-inference) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/use-litellm-with-snowflake-cortex-inference-huq1rtwxw)