Google Vertex AI
Cloud model platform · list price · checked Sep 23, 2026
Models on Google Vertex AI
96 model routes. 39 of 84 at the lab's own list price; the rest shown as a premium or discount.
Claude Fable 5.1global · direct $10 / $50$10 / $50same as direct$10 / $50None
Gemini 3.8 Flashglobal-flex · direct $0.75 / $3.75$0.375 / $1.88-50% vs direct$0.75 / $3.75-50%
Premium: blended price (3 input to 1 output) on this platform against the lab's own API. Regions are separate routes.
About Google Vertex AI
Google Cloud's managed generative AI service serving Gemini plus partner (Anthropic Claude) and open models (Llama, Mistral, gpt-oss, others) per token.
- Fee on tokens
- List price
- Pricing model
- Per 1M tokens on your Google Cloud bill; partner models at the lab's list price on the Global endpoint, regional/multi-region endpoints about 10% more
- Bring your own key
- No
- Entry plan
- Usage based
- Hosting
- Hosted
Features stated: none found. Not stated: Fallbacks, Load balancing, Caching, Guardrails, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, Prompts, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key, Data residency, Private networking.
The terms, in their words
- Markup
- Per 1M tokens on your Google Cloud bill; partner models at the lab's list price on the Global endpoint, regional/multi-region endpoints about 10% more
- Providers
- Gemini 2.5/3.x families, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral, OpenAI gpt-oss, GLM, and others listed on the pricing page
- You're charged only for requests that return a 200 response code.
- * For non-global endpoints, pricing will go into effect for the Generally available Gemini 3 and later families of all Google models starting on July 1, 2026. Before July 1, 2026, Global endpoint pricing applies to Non-global endpoints.
- Partner models are a curated list of generative AI models developed by Google partners. Partner models are offered as managed APIs.
Source: cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/generative-ai/pricing
BigQuery, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI), the Gemini API, Looker, AlloyDB and Spanner.
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