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Snowflake CLI is an open-source command-line tool explicitly designed for developer-centric workloads in addition to SQL operations.
Snowflake CLI is an open-source command-line tool explicitly designed for developer-centric workloads in addition to SQL operations. It is a flexible and extensible tool that can accommodate modern development practices and technologies.
With Snowflake CLI, developers can create, manage, update, and view apps running on Snowflake across workloads such as Streamlit in Snowflake, the Snowflake Native App Framework, Snowpark Container Services, and Snowpark. It supports a range of Snowflake features, including user-defined functions, stored procedures, Streamlit in Snowflake, and SQL execution.
Docs: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowflake-cli-v2/index.
Quick start: https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/getting-started-with-snowflake-cli
Cheatsheet: https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/sf-cheatsheets/blob/main/snowflake-cli.md
Feel free to file an issue or submit a PR here for general cases. For official support, contact Snowflake support at: https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/How-To-Submit-a-Support-Case-in-Snowflake-Lodge
The direct installer downloads a signed platform binary from the Snowflake CLI repository and unpacks a versioned snow into your home directory.
macOS / Linux / WSL:
curl -LsS https://sfc-repo.snowflakecomputing.com/snowflake-cli/install.sh | shWindows (PowerShell):
irm https://sfc-repo.snowflakecomputing.com/snowflake-cli/install.ps1 | iex
Upgrade later with snow upgrade (public preview, same-major only). This is the only installer that supports it. snow --info reports installation_source; snow --version does not.
Install Snowflake CLI in an isolated environment using uv. Requires Python >= 3.11. snow upgrade refuses on this channel.
uv tool install snowflake-cli snow --help
Or, with a single command
uvx --from snowflake-cli snow --help
Requires Homebrew.
There are two ways to install Snowflake CLI via Homebrew:
Option 1 – Homebrew core formula (simpler, no tap required):
brew install snowflake-cli snow --help
The formula is maintained by the Homebrew community and may trail the latest release.
Option 2 – Snowflake-maintained tap (recommended for latest releases):
The tap distributes a pre-built binary (cask) maintained directly by Snowflake and updated with every release. Homebrew requires you to explicitly trust third-party taps before installing casks from them:
brew tap snowflakedb/snowflake-cli brew trust --cask snowflakedb/snowflake-cli/snowflake-cli brew install --cask snowflake-cli snow --help
Once trusted, future upgrades work normally: brew upgrade --cask snowflake-cli
Requires Python >= 3.11 and git
git clone https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-cli cd snowflake-cli # you can also do the below in an active virtual environment: # python -m venv .venv # source .venv/bin/activate hatch build && pip install . snow --version
You should now be able to run snow and get the CLI message.
The interactive snow sql prompt remains > unless you opt in with
--prompt-format or a quoted prompt_format string in the [cli] section of
config.toml. Placeholders (case-insensitive) are [user], [host],
[account], [role], [warehouse], [database], [schema], and
[connection] (the -c connection name). They update after USE. Example:
snow sql --prompt-format "[user]#[warehouse]@[database].[schema]> "
Missing values render as (no user), (no database), and so on.
\n is a newline; \[, \], and \\ are literal [, ], and \.
Use [#rrggbb] for a foreground colour and [bg:#rrggbb] for a background
colour. A colour applies to the prompt text that follows it; it does not colour
SQL input. Quote the value because # starts a TOML comment. For example:
[cli] prompt_format = """┌──[#bca81f][user]@[account].[role].[warehouse].[database].[schema] [#ffff00]└─$"""
SnowSQL often puts a colour after the marker (└─$[#ffff00]). Here that
trailing token is a no-op: it does not colour typed SQL. Place [#ffff00]
before └─$ if you want the marker itself yellow.
Unknown bracketed tokens are dropped from the prompt and reported with a
warning when the REPL starts. Prefix a colour directive with \[ to display
it literally.
Commands print a table unless you pass --format. To change that default, set
output_format in the [cli] section of config.toml or the
SNOWFLAKE_CLI_OUTPUT_FORMAT environment variable. Allowed values are TABLE,
JSON, JSON_EXT, CSV, and PLAIN. --format on the command line still wins.
In snow sql, !set output_format=<format> changes the format for later
statements in that session.
[cli] output_format = "JSON"
Have a feature idea? Running into a bug? Want to contribute? We'd love to hear from you! Please open or review issues, open pull requests, or reach out to us on developers@snowflake.com
See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and contribution guidelines.