Vertex AI
Google Cloud’s AI platform.
Gemini plus partner and open models with tuning, evaluation, grounding and agent tooling on Google Cloud.
- Vendor
- Google Cloud
- Category
- Inference & model hosting
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Google Cloud
- Launched
- 2021
- Website
- cloud.google.com/vertex-ai
Features
- Model Garden
- Grounding with Search
- Agent Engine
Best for
- Enterprise
Works with
- Claude Opus 5.5 — Anthropic. Anthropic’s flagship for demanding reasoning, coding and long-horizon agents.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash — Google. Google’s most intelligent Flash model — fully multimodal, fast and affordable.
More inference & model hosting
- Ollama — Ollama. Run open models locally with one command.
- OpenRouter — OpenRouter. One API for hundreds of models.
- vLLM — vLLM project. High-throughput LLM serving engine.
- llama.cpp — ggml. LLM inference in C/C++ on any hardware.
- Amazon Bedrock — AWS. Foundation models on AWS.
- LM Studio — Element Labs. Desktop app to discover and run local LLMs.
- Azure AI Foundry — Microsoft. Build and run AI apps on Azure.
- Groq — Groq. Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs.