April 30, 2025 — Programmatic access tokens¶

You can now generate and use programmatic access tokens to authenticate to the following Snowflake endpoints:

• Snowflake REST APIs.

• The Snowflake SQL API.

• The Snowflake Catalog SDK.

You can also use a programmatic access token as a replacement for a password in:

• Snowflake drivers.

• Third-party applications that connect to Snowflake (such as Tableau and PowerBI).

• Snowflake APIs and libraries (such as the Snowpark API and the Snowflake Python API.

• Snowflake command-line clients (such as the Snowflake CLI and SnowSQL.

You can generate programmatic access tokens for human users (users with TYPE=PERSON) as well as for service users (users with TYPE=SERVICE).

For more information, see Using programmatic access tokens for authentication.