AWS Bedrock vs Google Vertex AI

Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. List prices tie on nearly all 27 shared line items today, so the choice comes down to platform differences (routing, limits, tooling), summarized below.

AWS Bedrock

Claude, Llama, Mistral, Nova and more inside AWS with IAM, VPC and compliance controls. The default when your stack already lives on AWS.

  • Enterprise IAM/VPC integration
  • Multiple model families
  • Provisioned throughput options

Visit AWS Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Gemini plus 100+ models in Google Cloud's ML platform, with enterprise governance, grounding and tuning pipelines..

  • Enterprise governance
  • Grounding with Google Search
  • Model Garden variety

Visit Google Vertex AI

Shared models, priced by both

List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens
Model AWS Bedrock in/out Google Vertex AI in/out Cheaper input
GPT-OSS 20B $0.075 / $0.300 $0.075 / $0.300 tie
GPT-OSS 120B $0.150 / $0.600 $0.090 / $0.360 Google Vertex AI
Jamba-1.5-Mini $0.200 / $0.400 $0.200 / $0.400 tie
Claude 3 Haiku $0.250 / $1.25 $0.250 / $1.25 tie
DeepSeek V3.2 $0.620 / $1.85 $0.560 / $1.68 Google Vertex AI
Claude-3.5-Haiku $0.800 / $4.00 $1.00 / $5.00 AWS Bedrock
Claude Haiku 4.5 $1.00 / $5.00 $1.00 / $5.00 tie
Mistral Small 4 $1.00 / $3.00 $1.00 / $3.00 tie
DeepSeek R1 $1.35 / $5.40 $1.35 / $5.40 tie
Claude Sonnet 5 $2.00 / $10.00 $2.00 / $10.00 tie
Jamba-1.5-Large $2.00 / $8.00 $2.00 / $8.00 tie
Claude-3.7-Sonnet $3.00 / $15.00 $3.00 / $15.00 tie
Claude Sonnet 4 $3.00 / $15.00 $3.00 / $15.00 tie
Claude Sonnet 4.5 $3.00 / $15.00 $3.00 / $15.00 tie
Claude-3.5-Sonnet $3.00 / $15.00 $3.00 / $15.00 tie
Claude Sonnet 4.6 $3.00 / $15.00 $3.00 / $15.00 tie
Mistral Large $3.00 / $9.00 $2.00 / $6.00 Google Vertex AI
Claude-3-Sonnet $3.00 / $15.00 $3.00 / $15.00 tie
Claude Opus 4.5 $5.00 / $25.00 $5.00 / $25.00 tie
Claude Opus 4.6 $5.00 / $25.00 $5.00 / $25.00 tie
Claude Opus 4.7 $5.00 / $25.00 $5.00 / $25.00 tie
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 / $25.00 $5.00 / $25.00 tie
Claude Opus 4.8 $5.00 / $25.00 $5.00 / $25.00 tie
Claude Fable 5 $10.00 / $50.00 $10.00 / $50.00 tie
Claude Opus 4 $15.00 / $75.00 $15.00 / $75.00 tie
Claude Opus 4.1 $15.00 / $75.00 $15.00 / $75.00 tie
Claude-3-Opus $15.00 / $75.00 $15.00 / $75.00 tie

Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.