Replicate vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Replicate is cheaper on 0 of 13 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 7.
Replicate
Run thousands of community models (LLMs, image, audio, video) behind one API with per-second GPU billing: the fastest path from 'found a model on GitHub' to production endpoint..
- Massive community model zoo
- Per-second billing, scale to zero
- Custom models via Cog
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 | Replicate in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.090 / $0.360 | $0.075 / $0.300 | Google Vertex AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.180 / $0.720 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Google Vertex AI |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.264 / $1.06 | $0.220 / $0.880 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.672 / $2.02 | $0.600 / $1.70 | Google Vertex AI |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| Claude-3.5-Haiku | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| Gemini-3-Pro | $2.00 / $12.00 | $2.00 / $12.00 | tie |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $2.50 / $2.50 | $0.300 / $2.50 | Google Vertex AI |
| 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 |
| DeepSeek R1 | $3.75 / $10.00 | $1.35 / $5.40 | Google Vertex AI |
| Claude-3.5-Sonnet | $3.75 / $18.75 | $3.00 / $15.00 | Google Vertex AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.