CARTO now available on the Snowflake Marketplace

Javier Pérez Trufero

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Alex Tena

Jan 16, 2024

Updated Sep 7, 2026

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TL;DR

The way to start a CARTO trial from inside Snowflake is to activate CARTO’s listing on the Snowflake Marketplace, which creates a new CARTO organization account connected to your Snowflake data in a few clicks. That entry point has moved: this post was published in January 2024 to announce CARTO on Snowflake Partner Connect, and an update at the top now redirects readers to the Marketplace listing instead, so the Partner Connect walkthrough below it is the original 2024 text. What CARTO added to Snowflake, as described at the time, was Builder maps rendered by generating tiles directly from the warehouse, the Analytics Toolbox for Snowflake (also packaged as a Snowflake Native App), no-code Workflows pipelines, app development libraries, and more than 12,000 Data Observatory datasets for enrichment. Activation creates a free trial rather than adapting an existing subscription.

Update: The CARTO free trial for Snowflake now lives on the Snowflake Marketplace. Head to our listing on the Snowflake Marketplace to activate CARTO and get started in minutes.

We are happy to announce that CARTO is now available on the Snowflake Partner Connect portal, giving users seamless, near-instant access to CARTO’s geospatial analysis and visualization capabilities to get the most out of their location-based data in Snowflake.

With this native integration, it’s now easier than ever to connect CARTO to spatial data hosted in Snowflake’s Data Cloud; and to start building interactive maps, create data transformation and analysis workflows, and develop spatial applications in just a matter of clicks.

What is Snowflake Partner Connect?

Snowflake Partner Connect is a portal that provides Snowflake users with an ecosystem of pre-built, fully integrated data applications and services. Users can discover, access, and deploy a wide range of third-party solutions directly within their Snowflake environment. Our integration not only streamlines the onboarding process, but also ensures that users can take full advantage of their data in Snowflake with other cloud-native applications in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.

CARTO's integration on Snowflake Partner Connect

What CARTO provides to Snowflake users

With CARTO’s spatial analytics platform now available through Snowflake Partner Connect, organizations with data hosted in Snowflake can enjoy an array of benefits when working with spatial data at scale that go far beyond traditional GIS platforms, such as:

Fully cloud native: CARTO integrates seamlessly with Snowflake, connecting your Snowflake account and database in a matter of clicks. This means you can immediately begin using CARTO's spatial capabilities without the hassle of setting up additional infrastructure, or creating complex ETL processes.

Scalability and Performance: CARTO's cloud-native platform leverages the scalability and performance of Snowflake. This ensures that you can handle large datasets and complex geospatial analysis queries with ease.

Best-in-class map visualizations: CARTO has built the most advanced technology to dynamically generate tiles to render your spatial data on web maps natively from the data warehouse. Use CARTO’s point and click features in Builder or our App Development libraries to create stunning, interactive maps using your data in Snowflake.

Advanced geospatial analysis: CARTO's geospatial analysis tools let you answer complex questions related to spatial data. Extending Snowflake's capabilities to manage and analyze spatial data, CARTO’s Analytics Toolbox for Snowflake (also available as a Native App in Snowflake) offers a unique set of native functionalities for your geospatial analysis, from statistics, H3 support, to geocoding, routing and isolines. Use CARTO Workflows, our no-code tool to create and automate your data transformation and analysis pipelines running on Snowflake.

Accelerated spatial app development: CARTO integrates a complete toolkit of APIs, frameworks, libraries and templates so you can fast-track your spatial app development cycle on top of Snowflake.

Access to +12,000 spatial datasets to enrich your own data: CARTO enables Snowflake users to enrich their own data with geospatial context. You can enhance your data with a catalog of +12,000 external geospatial datasets available from our Data Observatory to generate even more powerful location-based insights.

Getting started with CARTO on Snowflake

Getting started with CARTO on Snowflake is straightforward. Head to our listing on the Snowflake Marketplace and activate CARTO to create your account. You can start exploring the exciting world of Location Intelligence with your Snowflake data in no time at all.

Note that the CARTO organization account that is created will be a new Free Trial account. To know more about CARTO’s enterprise subscription plans or to adapt the account to your current plan, please talk to your CARTO representative or contact us here.

The integration of CARTO with Snowflake Partner Connect is a significant step towards facilitating access to geospatial visualization and analytical capabilities for Snowflake users. Don't miss out on this opportunity to leverage the power of CARTO on Snowflake.

Get started today and supercharge your data analytics with Location Intelligence!

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I start using CARTO with my Snowflake data?

Activate CARTO from its listing on the Snowflake Marketplace. That creates a new CARTO organization account on a free trial, connected to your Snowflake account and database, with no separate infrastructure to set up and no ETL to configure. It does not convert or adapt a subscription you already hold, so if your organization is already a CARTO customer the post advises talking to your CARTO representative instead. This Marketplace route replaced the Snowflake Partner Connect entry point that the rest of the January 2024 post describes.

What is Snowflake Partner Connect, and how did CARTO use it?

Partner Connect is a portal within Snowflake through which users can discover, access and deploy pre-built, fully integrated third-party data applications and services without leaving their Snowflake environment. In January 2024 CARTO announced a listing there, so Snowflake users could reach CARTO’s mapping and spatial analysis tools in a few clicks rather than provisioning an account separately. CARTO’s Snowflake free trial has since moved to the Snowflake Marketplace, which is where the post now directs readers.

What does CARTO add to Snowflake that Snowflake does not do on its own?

As described in January 2024, four things. Best-in-class map rendering, by dynamically generating vector tiles from data in the warehouse rather than exporting it first. The Analytics Toolbox for Snowflake, also packaged as a Snowflake Native App, adding statistics, H3 spatial indexing, geocoding, routing and isolines on top of Snowflake’s own spatial functions. CARTO Workflows, a no-code tool for building and automating data transformation and analysis pipelines that execute on Snowflake. And a toolkit of APIs, frameworks, libraries and templates for building spatial applications.

How many datasets can CARTO enrich Snowflake data with?

The January 2024 post cites more than 12,000 external geospatial datasets available through CARTO’s Data Observatory, spanning the demographic, behavioral, environmental and other sources CARTO curates from third-party providers. These are used to add location context to a company’s own tables, for example attaching population or points-of-interest counts to customer or site records. The catalog is continuously added to, so treat 12,000 as a floor from early 2024 rather than a current figure.

Does using CARTO with Snowflake require moving data out of Snowflake?

No. CARTO connects to a Snowflake account and database and runs analysis against the data where it sits, which is why the January 2024 post describes setup as a matter of clicks with no additional infrastructure and no ETL pipelines. Queries and the tile generation behind the maps both execute in Snowflake, so the platform inherits Snowflake’s scalability and performance for large datasets and complex spatial queries.

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About the author

Javier is CARTO's Chief Product Officer and is globally responsible for CARTO’s product portfolio, customer experience, and innovation roadmap. Javier's responsibilities span the complete product development and customer experience cycle.