Google Vertex AI

Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified machine learning and generative AI platform that brings the full ML lifecycle, foundation models, and agent tooling into a single environment. It spans data preparation, training, fine-tuning, deployment, and MLOps, with access to Gemini and 100+ models via Model Garden.

Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's fully managed, unified platform for building, training, deploying, and managing machine learning and generative AI models across the entire lifecycle. Launched in May 2021, it consolidates Google Cloud's ML services under a single UI and API, reducing the code required to train models and helping teams move from experimentation to production faster. Its Model Garden provides access to 100+ models including Google's Gemini family, Imagen (image), Veo (video), Lyria (music), and Chirp (speech), alongside open and partner models such as Llama, Gemma, Claude, and Qwen. Vertex AI supports AutoML for no-code training on tabular, image, text, and video data, custom training and fine-tuning (including Gemini tuning), one-click model deployment to scalable endpoints, and a comprehensive MLOps suite for monitoring and pipelines. The platform also includes Vertex AI Agent Builder and the generally available Agent Engine managed runtime for building and operating production AI agents, plus the open Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the category, and at Cloud Next '26 the platform was unified under the Gemini Enterprise umbrella as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Category

Enterprise Platform

Pricing

Usage-based, Pay-as-you-go, Freemium

Target Market

Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Enterprise Developers, CTOs, CIOs, MLOps Teams

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

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  Model Garden

  A library of 100+ first-party, open, and partner models (Gemini, Imagen, Veo, Lyria, Llama, Gemma, Claude) deployable from one place.

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  AutoML

  No-code training of high-quality models on tabular, image, text, and video data with just a few clicks.

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  Custom training and fine-tuning

  Train custom models and fine-tune foundation models like Gemini using the Vertex AI SDK and managed compute.

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  Agent Builder and Agent Engine

  Build production AI agents and run them on a generally available managed runtime, with the open Agent Development Kit and A2A protocol.

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  Generative media models

  Generate images (Imagen), video (Veo), speech (Chirp), and music (Lyria) within a single platform.

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  MLOps and model monitoring

  Pipelines, feature store, evaluation, and monitoring for managing models reliably in production.

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  Multimodal generative AI applications

  Use Gemini and generative media models to process and produce text, images, audio, video, and code in one platform.

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  Custom ML model development and deployment

  Build, train, and serve fraud detection, recommendation, and forecasting models with full MLOps support.

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  Production AI agents

  Develop, deploy, and govern enterprise agents on a managed runtime with grounding via Google Search and enterprise data.

Pricing is usage-based with no upfront commitment and a multi-dimensional billing model spanning model inference (per token / per 1,000 characters), training compute, prediction nodes, storage, and Agent Engine runtime. New customers receive $300 in free credits valid for 90 days.

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