Fireworks AI vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Fireworks AI is cheaper on 3 of 10 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 3.
Fireworks AI
Speed-focused open-model inference with FireAttention serving stack, function-calling models and image generation. Strong latency SLAs for production apps.
- Very low latency serving
- Function-calling optimized
- Enterprise SLAs
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
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Fireworks AI in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.070 / $0.300 | $0.075 / $0.300 | Fireworks AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Google Vertex AI |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.200 / $0.200 | $3.00 / $3.00 | Fireworks AI |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.220 / $0.880 | $0.220 / $0.880 | tie |
| Qwen3-Coder-480b-A35b-Instruct | $0.450 / $1.80 | $0.220 / $1.80 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.560 / $1.68 | $0.560 / $1.68 | tie |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.560 / $1.68 | $0.600 / $1.70 | Fireworks AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.900 / $0.900 | $0.150 / $1.20 | Google Vertex AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.900 / $0.900 | $0.150 / $1.20 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $3.00 / $8.00 | $1.35 / $5.40 | Google Vertex AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.