Nebius vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Nebius is cheaper on 5 of 7 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 1.
Nebius
AI cloud from the former Yandex team with H100/H200/B200 clusters in Europe and the US, plus Nebius AI Studio for per-token open-weight inference. Competitive pricing at cluster scale.
- European datacenters
- Both clusters and per-token inference
- Aggressive large-scale pricing
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 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Nebius in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Nemo | $0.040 / $0.120 | $3.00 / $3.00 | Nebius |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.130 / $0.400 | $0.720 / $0.720 | Nebius |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Google Vertex AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.20 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.200 / $0.600 | $0.220 / $0.880 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.800 / $2.40 | $1.35 / $5.40 | Nebius |
| Llama 3.1 405B | $1.00 / $3.00 | $5.00 / $16.00 | Nebius |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.