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Published Jun 14, 2026 · Updated Jun 14, 2026 Direct Answer AI products carry structurally lower gross margins than traditional SaaS — roughly 50–60% versus 75–90% — because every AI query incurs a real compute cost, which means COGS matter…
Read full answer ↗Direct Answer Snowflake buys Anthropic and OpenAI inference at negotiated wholesale rates, resells it as credit consumption inside Cortex, and keeps a thin orchestration margin rather than a warehouse-sized one. It protects that margin by r…
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