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Google Vertex AI pricing

Google Cloud platform for building and deploying AI agents and apps with Gemini, third-party and open models, plus ML training and MLOps tools.

AI API platformsFree planPriced per vcpu-hourSelf-serve + sales
Visit Google Vertex AIPrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Google Vertex AI cost?

Usage price from $0.09/vcpu-hour
Free plan
Yes
Usage price
$0.09/vcpu-hour
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In your favor

  • Free plan. Agent Compute includes 50 free hours, Agent Memory 100 free GiB-hours, and Agent Storage 1 GiB-month free per month per account; paid rates apply after.

Watch out for

  • Going over the Agent Compute (after free tier) allowance costs $0.09 per vcpu-hour. Included: 50 hours.

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Try Gemini platform, Contact sales
Sign up
Free trial sign-up via Google Cloud console
"Try Gemini platform"
Setup
Not stated
When sales steps in
Not stated
Support
Cloud Customer Care
"Cloud Customer Care"

What Google Vertex AI does

Gemini platform (Google Cloud) offers access to 200+ Google, third-party and open models through Model Garden, along with agent building, tuning, custom training, and MLOps tooling. Pricing is usage-based across compute, accelerators, and per-service SKUs, with generative AI token pricing on a separate page.

Good for
Technical teams and enterprises building agents, generative AI apps, and custom ML models on Google Cloud.
Channels
Web console, API, SDKs (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Curl), Antigravity desktop app and CLI
Main product
Gemini platform
Also includes
Agent Studio, Model Garden, Model Evaluation service, Custom training, Notebooks (Colab Enterprise, Workbench), Pipelines
Connects to
BigQuery, Colab Enterprise, Workbench, Anthropic Claude models, Gemma, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine
Public API
Yes
MCP server
Not stated
  • Pay-per-token pricingGemini platform also offers more ways to optimize costs
  • Multiple models availableChoose from Google’s latest multimodal models like Gemini 4 Argon, third-party models like Anthropic's Claude
  • Fine-tuning supportYou can also customize models to your use case with a variety of
  • Streaming responsesNot stated
  • Tool and function callingNot stated
  • SOC 2 complianceNot stated
  • No training on your dataNot stated
  • Discounted batch processingNot stated

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Security and your data

QuestionTheir answerWhere it says so
Trains AI on your data?Not stated
HIPAA (signs a BAA)Not stated
SOC 2Not stated
GDPRcommitted to GDPR compliance"Google Cloud has a long-standing commitment to [GDPR compliance]"privacy
CCPANot stated
PCINot stated
ISO 27001Not stated
Single sign-onNot stated
Trust centerNot stated

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

PlanMonthlyBilled yearlyIncludedOver the allowanceWhere it says so
Agent Compute (after free tier)/ vCPU-hour $0.09per vcpu-hour – 50 hours $0.09/vcpu-hour "50 hour and above $0.085 / 1 hour, per 1 month / account"
Agent Memory (after free tier)/ GiB-hour $0.01per gib-hour – 100 GiB-hours $0.01/gib-hour "100 gibibyte hour and above $0.009 / 1 gibibyte hour, per 1 month / account"
AutoML image training (classification)/ hour $3.46per minute – – – "| Training | $3.465 / 1 hour |"
AutoML tabular training/ hour $21.25per minute – – – "| Training | $21.252 / 1 hour |"

Free plan: Agent Compute includes 50 free hours, Agent Memory 100 free GiB-hours, and Agent Storage 1 GiB-month free per month per account; paid rates apply after.

Fine print

Billing increment
Training and Prediction charged in 30 second increments; agent usage rounded to the nearest second
"No minimum usage duration for Training and Prediction. Instead, usage is charged in 30 second increments."
Billed beyond usage
Not stated
Contract
Not stated
Refunds
Not stated
Auto renew
Not stated
Price change notice
Not stated

"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.

About the company

Ships updates
77 in the last 12 months
Last on Jun 28, 2027, from their changelog
Customers
"Nearly 90% of generative AI unicorns are Google Cloud customers"
their claim

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Questions

Is Google Vertex AI free?

Yes. Agent Compute includes 50 free hours, Agent Memory 100 free GiB-hours, and Agent Storage 1 GiB-month free per month per account; paid rates apply after.