Vertex AI

Google Cloud's AI platform for calling Gemini and partner models such as Claude, with Google Cloud billing, regions and access controls.

Visit cloud.google.com ↗Alternatives

Ask your AI about this, with this page as the source:ChatGPT ↗Claude ↗Perplexity ↗

Where it fits

LLM API · Through your cloudGemini and partner models such as Claude on Google Cloud, with its regions, IAM and billing.Trade-off: More setup than the Gemini API (a Cloud project, service accounts, regions), for the same models.

Who uses it

3 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 59 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

Subprocessor list 3Declared in code 59How evidence is collected →

Sort

beeai-framework Build production-ready AI agents in both Python and Typescript.LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

camel 🐫 CAMEL: The first and the best multi-agent framework. Finding the Scaling Law of Agent…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

CopilotKit The Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI. React, Angular, Mobile, Slack, and more.…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

dust Custom AI agent platform to speed up your work.LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

kodus-ai AI Code Review with Full Control Over Model Choice and Costs.LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

MiMo-Code MiMo Code: Where Models and Agents Co-EvolveLLM APIIn its code · source ↗

nao 👾 nao is an open source analytics agent. (1) Create context with nao-core cli, (2) depl…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

openinference OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for AI ObservabilityLLM APIIn its code · source ↗

openllmetry Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetryLLM APIIn its code · source ↗

openscience The open-source AI workbench for scientific researchLLM APIIn its code · source ↗

rocketride-server High-performance AI pipeline engine with a C++ core and 50+ Python-extensible nodes. Bui…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

archestra Enterprise AI Platform with guardrails, MCP registry, gateway & orchestratorLLM APIIn its code · source ↗

cherry-studio AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

lmring Open-source, self-hostable LLM arena with model compare, voting, and leaderboardsLLM APIIn its code · source ↗

plasmic Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

sourcebot Sourcebot is a self-hosted tool that helps humans and agents understand your codebase.LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

documenso Open-source e-signature platform and DocuSign alternative that can be self-hosted or use…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

Firecrawl Web scraping and crawling API that turns websites into clean markdown or structured JSON…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

Formbricks Open-source survey and experience-management platform for in-app, website and link-based…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

inbox-zero Open-source AI email assistant that triages, labels and drafts replies to help clear you…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

Langfuse Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluation, prompt management and expe…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

Latitude Latitude is an open-source observability and evaluation platform for AI agents that grou…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

LlamaIndex Data framework for connecting, indexing, and querying your data to build LLM and RAG app…LLM APIIn its code · source ↗

Open source: a project that declares Vertex AI as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

Alternatives to Vertex AI

All alternatives by situation →

Gemini APIVery long context and multimodal input, with a free tier to start.Free tier99 makers · LLM API Compare with Vertex AI →

OpenAI APIThe broadest model lineup — text, images, speech, embeddings — and the largest ecosystem.734 makers · LLM API

ClaudeCoding, long documents and agent-style tool use.251 makers · LLM API

GroqVery low-latency inference on open models, for real-time features.Free tier39 makers · LLM API

Mistral AIA European provider whose API covers chat, coding, OCR and speech models.Free tier15 makers · LLM API

DeepSeekLow per-token prices on strong reasoning and coding models, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-format endpoints.11 makers · LLM API

Questions makers ask about Vertex AI

Is Vertex AI free?

No permanent free tier; paid use starts at Pay per token. source ↗

Is Vertex AI open source or self-hostable?

Not open source, and hosted only.

Can AI coding agents work with Vertex AI?

No llms.txt, official MCP server or CLI found yet.

Who uses Vertex AI?

3 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 59 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗