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Is there a material difference in supported use cases between the following: using Claude code with an MCP to Snowflake vs just using Snowflake Cortex?

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The Bottom Line

Yes, there is a material difference, but it is strictly non-functional: the distinction lies in inference location (governance boundary) and default user persona, not in functional capability.

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DeepSeek V4 Pro Magistral Medium Grok 4 Gemini 3.1 Pro GPT-5 Claude Opus 4.8