Run Snowflake Arctic with an API

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Run Snowflake Arctic language model with Replicate's API in the cloud using JavaScript or Python

intermediate Published 23 Apr 2024

Action Steps

Try Arctic in Replicate's API playground to get a feel for the model's capabilities
Install Replicate's client library for JavaScript or Python
Set up the API token and import the client library
Run Snowflake Arctic using Replicate's API with the provided code snippets

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Developers and data scientists on a team can benefit from using Replicate's API to run Snowflake Arctic, as it allows for easy integration and deployment of the model in various applications

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💡 Replicate's API allows for easy deployment and integration of Snowflake Arctic in various applications

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Run Snowflake Arctic language model with Replicate's API in the cloud using JavaScript or Python

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# Run Snowflake Arctic with an API

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Snowflake Arctic is a new open-source language model from Snowflake. Arctic is on-par or better than both Llama 3 8B and Llama 2 70B on all metrics while using less than half of the training compute budget.

It’s massive. At 480B, Arctic is the biggest open-source model to date. As expected from a model from Snowflake, it’s good at SQL and other coding tasks, and it has a liberal Apache 2.0 license.

With Replicate, you can run Arctic in the cloud with one line of code.

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## [](https://replicate.com/blog/run-arctic-with-an-api#try-arctic-in-our-api-playground)Try Arctic in our API playground

Before you dive in, try Arctic in our API playground.

Try tweaking the prompt and see how Arctic responds. Most models on Replicate have an interactive API playground like this, available on the model page: [https://replicate.com/snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct](https://replicate.com/snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct)

The API playground is a great way to get a feel for what a model can do, and provides copyable code snippets in a variety of languages to help you get started.

## [](https://replicate.com/blog/run-arctic-with-an-api#running-arctic-with-javascript)Running Arctic with JavaScript

You can run Arctic with our [official JavaScript client](https://github.com/replicate/replicate-javascript):

Install [Replicate’s Node.js client library](https://github.com/replicate/replicate-javascript)

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`npm install replicate`

Set the `REPLICATE_API_TOKEN` environment variable

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`export REPLICATE_API_TOKEN=r8_9wm**********************************`

(You can generate an [API token](https://replicate.com/account/api-tokens) in your account. Keep it to yourself.)

Import and set up the client

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```
import Replicate from "replicate";

const replicate = new Replicate({
auth: process.env.REPLICATE_API_TOKEN,
});
```

Run snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct using Replicate’s API. Check out the [model’s schema](https://replicate.com/snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct/api/schema) for an overview of inputs and outputs.

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```
const input = {};

for await (const event of replicate.stream("snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct", { input })) {
process.stdout.write(event.toString());
};
```

To learn more, take a look at [the guide on getting started with Node.js](https://replicate.com/docs/get-started/nodejs).

## [](https://replicate.com/blog/run-arctic-with-an-api#running-arctic-with-python)Running Arctic with Python

You can run Arctic with our [official Python client](https://github.com/replicate/replicate-python):

Install [Replicate’s Python client library](https://github.com/replicate/replicate-python)

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`pip install replicate`

Set the `REPLICATE_API_TOKEN` environment variable

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`export REPLICATE_API_TOKEN=r8_9wm**********************************`

(You can generate an [API token](https://replicate.com/account/api-tokens) in your account. Keep it to yourself.)

Import the client

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`import replicate`

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