Novita AI vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Novita AI is cheaper on 9 of 12 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 2.
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
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 | Novita AI in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.040 / $0.150 | $0.075 / $0.300 | Novita AI |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.040 / $0.170 | $3.00 / $3.00 | Novita AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.050 / $0.250 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.50 | $0.150 / $1.20 | tie |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.180 / $0.590 | $0.250 / $0.700 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.200 / $0.800 | $0.220 / $0.880 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.269 / $0.400 | $0.560 / $1.68 | Novita AI |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.270 / $0.850 | $0.350 / $1.15 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.270 / $1.00 | $0.600 / $1.70 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3-Coder-480b-A35b-Instruct | $0.300 / $1.30 | $0.220 / $1.80 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.700 / $2.50 | $1.35 / $5.40 | Novita AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.