Cortex Embed API is a REST API from Snowflake that performs LLM embedding for input text, similar to the Snowflake Cortex EMBED_TEXT functions. Teams building AI features such as semantic search, retrieval and similarity matching can use it to turn text into embeddings by calling a hosted endpoint on their Snowflake account.
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Published for it: Documentation, OpenAPI, Overlay and JSONSchema artifacts. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Cortex, Embeddings.
About the provider: Snowflake is a cloud data platform spanning data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering and data science across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Its developer surface includes a large OpenAPI corpus, a SQL API, a Cortex family for AI inference and retrieval, and an account-hosted Model Context Protocol server.
Kin Score: 75.5 (exemplar band). Agent Readiness: 42.6 (agent-native band, scored 2026-10-31).
Access: paid, with self-serve signup; no free trial is listed.
Pricing: set by the provider.
Condition: a live hosted API listed in the APIs.io catalog; you call the provider's own endpoint.
Catalog listing: https://apis.io/apis/snowflake/cortex-embed-api/ Provider: https://www.snowflake.com/