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Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)

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Google LLC · google.com since 1997 · status page · who's behind it

Google Cloud's enterprise API for Gemini models and Model Garden partner and open models, including Claude, Llama and Qwen, on the platform formerly called Vertex AI, with regional endpoints, provisioned throughput and IAM access.

Best for Google Cloud customers who need Gemini with residency, VPC-SC, provisioned throughput and an SLA, or Claude under a Google bill.

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Assessment. Gemini, Claude and open models through one Google Cloud API with IAM, regional endpoints, schema-guaranteed JSON and a 99.5 per cent SLA, and no Vertex incident on the Cloud status page in the 90 days to 6 November 2026. Gemini 4 Argon and 3.8 Flash have 12-month availability, but short-term Flash models get a 95 per cent SLA.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Transport
HTTP
Endpoint
https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1
Auth
OAuth or key
Pricing
Pay per use · from $0.30 / 1M in
x402
No
Licence
Proprietary service under the Google Cloud Platform terms. Partner models carry their providers' terms. The Google Gen AI SDKs are Apache-2.0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
Packages
pypi google-genai
npm @google/genai
pypi google-cloud-aiplatform
llms.txt
not found
Last release
PyPI / week
20.9M
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
Surface listed
Generative inference on aiplatform.googleapis.com (generateContent, the Interactions API, the OpenAI-compatible path and Model Garden partner models). Tuning is the vertex-ai-tuning listing, the Gemini Developer API is gemini-api and Gemini Enterprise is gemini-enterprise. Read from Google Cloud docs, pricing, release notes and status feed on 6 November 2026; no project was made
Free tier
Express mode (Preview), 90 days for new Google Cloud users within quotas, no billing details, @gmail.com accounts
Trains on API data
No, without prior permission, per the training restriction in the Service Specific Terms
Data retention
In-memory cache 24 hours (can be disabled). Flagged prompts up to 90 days. Advanced AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 included, 30 days
Zero data retention
By exception request for abuse monitoring, plus turning off caching, logging and Interactions storage. Not possible with Search or Maps grounding
Rate limits
Standard PayGo tiers by 30-day spend, for example 2,000,000 to 50,000,000 TPM for Flash models and 500,000 to 10,000,000 for Pro, plus Provisioned Throughput
Batch
50% off on Gemini through Flex/Batch. Claude batch prices listed per model
SLA
99.5% monthly uptime, 95% for short-term availability models (Gemini 3.7 and 3.6 Flash on 6 November 2026), latency SLO on Provisioned Throughput
Endpoints
Global aiplatform.googleapis.com and regional {location}-aiplatform.googleapis.com, plus an OpenAI-compatible endpoints/openapi path
Status
status.cloud.google.com, product 'Vertex Gemini API'

Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • No incident naming Vertex or Gemini on status.cloud.google.com between 8 July and 6 October 2026
  • Public discovery document for the v1 API (revision 20260930) with 1,128 methods and 1,493 schemas
  • JSON output follows a supplied response_schema when response_mime_type is application/json
  • Express mode gives new users 90 days free with an API key and no billing details
  • Only requests that return 200 are charged
  • Gemini 4 Argon, GA since 13 October 2026, has a 1,048,576-token unified limit at $4/$20 per million tokens

Weaknesses

  • The SLA drops from 99.5 to 95 per cent for short-term availability models, Gemini 3.7 and 3.6 Flash among them
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash, released 21 July 2026, retires on 19 November 2026, and 3.7 Flash on 28 January 2027
  • Zero retention needs an exception request, and flagged prompts may be kept up to 90 days
  • The Interactions API stores prompts and responses unless store is set to false
  • No llms.txt on the docs site, and the docs mix the Vertex AI and Agent Platform names
  • The model versions table still listed Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite as available after their 20 October 2026 retirement date

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Call the global location on aiplatform.googleapis.com unless data residency requires a Region. The 429 guide says it spreads load and reduces errors
  2. Back off exponentially on 429 Resource exhausted. On Standard PayGo it means shared capacity is busy, not a fixed quota
  3. Send response_schema with response_mime_type: application/json. JSON mode alone doesn't guarantee valid output
  4. Set store to false on Interactions API calls. It defaults to true and keeps prompts and responses
  5. Pin gemini-4-argon or gemini-3.8-flash, both in the 12-month tier, rather than 3.7 or 3.6 Flash, which retire on 28 January 2027 and 19 November 2026

Who's behind it provenance 97/100

  • Legal entity namedGoogle LLC20/20
  • Domain agegoogle.com, registered 1997-09-15 (29 years)15/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainaiplatform.googleapis.com15/15
  • Terms of serviceread, states 7 of the 7 things a reader expects10/10
  • Privacy policyread, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points7.3/10
  • Status pagestatus.cloud.google.com10/10
  • Changelogpublished10/10
  • security.txtvalid10/10
  • People named5 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
  • Support routehelp pages5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service dated 2026-09-02, states 7 of 7, 1 to know

TL;DR Dated 2026-09-02. States all 7 things a reader expects. To know before relying on it, cut-off without notice or for any reason.

Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason
For purposes of GCP Services and TSS only, Google may terminate this Agreement or any applicable Order Form for its convenience at any time with 30 days' prior written notice to Customer.

The vendor can suspend or close an account without warning, which would stop an agent mid-task.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-09-02
(Last modified September 2, 2026)

Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.

Names the governing law or courts The law of the United States of America
federal government entity, then the following applies: ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EXCLUDING ITS CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES.

Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.

States a limit on its liability Capped at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim or $5,000
…GWS Services, SecOps Services, Looker (original) Services, or Cloud Identity Services, as applicable, is limited to the Fees Customer paid for such Services during the 12 month period before the event giving rise to Liability, except Google’s total aggregate Liability for damages arising out of or related to Services…

Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.

Says how the agreement or account can be ended
Customer may also terminate this Agreement for convenience under Section 8.5 (Termination for Convenience).

Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.

Says how changes to the terms are announced Gives 30 days of notice before a change
(i) With respect to GCP Services and their corresponding TSS, unless otherwise noted by Google, material updates to this Agreement will become effective 30 days after they are posted.

Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.

Lists what users may not do
For clarity, Customer may not integrate the Google Workspace Services, SecOps Services, or Cloud Identity Services into Customer Applications or create or host Customer Applications using the Google Workspace Services, SecOps Services, or Cloud Identity Services under this Agreement, and Customer may only integrate Lo…

The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.

Refers to a service level or uptime commitment Names 99.999% availability
Cloud-native relational database with unlimited scale and 99.999% availability.

Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.

Google may change its fees at any time unless an addendum or order form expressly says otherwise.
Google may change the Fees at any time unless otherwise expressly agreed in an addendum or Order Form.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

Google's total liability for services or software supplied free of charge is limited to 5,000 US dollars.
except Google’s total aggregate Liability for damages arising out of or related to Services or Software provided free of charge is limited to $5,000.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

When automated safety tools detect potential abuse of Generative AI Services, Google may log customer prompts to review whether a violation occurred.
Google may log Customer prompts solely for the purpose of reviewing and determining whether a violation has occurred.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The document · read 2026-10-08 · 13,806 words

Privacy policy dated 2026-10-01, states 7 of 8, 1 to know

TL;DR Dated 2026-10-01. States 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find where data goes. To know before relying on it, model training with no opt-out found.

Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was foundcosts points
We use your interactions with AI models and technologies like Gemini Apps to develop, train, fine-tune, and improve these models to better handle your requests, and update their classifiers and filters including for safety, language understanding, and factuality.

Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-10-01
Effective October 1, 2026 | Archived versions | Download PDF

Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.

Says what personal data is collected
This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.

Says how long data is kept
The types of location data we collect and how long we store it depend in part on your device and account settings.

Says when data sent to the service is deleted.

Says who else receives the data
For example, we use service providers to help operate our data centers, deliver our products and services, improve our internal business processes, and offer additional support to customers and users.

Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.

Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

A plain statement either way.

Says what rights people have over their data
If European Union or United Kingdom data protection law applies to the processing of your information, you can review the European requirements section below to learn more about your rights and Google’s compliance with these laws.

Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.

Gives a privacy contact
And if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us.

An address or officer to send a request to.

Says where data is transferred or stored

Not found in the text.

The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.

Members of organisations using Google Workspace or Google Cloud Platform are referred to the separate Google Cloud Privacy Notice for how those services collect and use personal information.
If you’re a member of an organization that uses Google Workspace or Google Cloud Platform, learn how these services collect and use your personal information in the Google Cloud Privacy Notice.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

Google says it uses publicly available information from the web and other public sources to help train machine learning models behind products such as Google Translate, Gemini Apps and Cloud AI.
We use publicly available information online or from other public sources to help train new machine learning models and build foundational technologies that power various Google products such as Google Translate, Gemini Apps, and Cloud AI capabilities.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The document · read 2026-10-08 · 14,332 words

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.

The product runs under the Google Cloud Platform terms, whose contracting Google entity depends on the billing country, as for vertex-ai-tuning.

www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt expires on 2030-04-01 (read 2026-11-06).

docs.cloud.google.com has no llms.txt (404 on 6 October 2026), but each docs page answers as Markdown when .md.txt is added to its URL.

Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

  • Larry PageCo-founder, Google, left executive roles in December 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board
  • Sergey BrinCo-founder, Google, left executive roles in 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board
  • Sundar PichaiCEO, Google and Alphabet
  • Thomas KurianCEO, Google Cloud
  • Demis HassabisCo-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Google Cloud on LinkedIn @Google

Ownership Part of Alphabet Inc.

Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Google Cloud is Google's cloud business, so the company-level people are the same as for Google (out/top/antigravity-cli.json), with Thomas Kurian added as CEO of Google Cloud from Wikipedia's Google Cloud article (infobox owner Google, CEO Thomas Kurian) and his own article, read 28 October 2026. Product people named on single listings (Sarah Weldon, Rohit Kumbhalwar, Brad Meador, Haris Ioannou) are left as they are. Copied from data/humans/vertex-ai-tuning.json on 6 November 2026 for the same company, not researched again. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (5)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:38 UTC

Right nowUpHTTP 404 · 702 ms · 1 minute ago
Uptime 24h100.0%193 probes
Uptime 30 days100.0%193 probes
p50 24h118 msget
p95 24h740 msopen endpoint

Probed every five minutes at https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials.

  • github googleapis/python-genai v3.0.0, released 2026-11-06
  • npm @google/genai 3.0.0
  • pypi google-cloud-aiplatform 2.7.0, released 2026-10-28
  • pypi google-genai 3.0.0, released 2026-11-06
  • GitHub stars 4.1k
  • npm downloads a week 32M
  • PyPI downloads a week 38.4M
  • security.txt valid, expires 2030-04-01T00:00:00z · 1 hour ago

Pages we watch

PageKindLast checkedLast changed
cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/generativ…deprecations3 hours ago · 2003 hours ago

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/vertex-ai.json

Notable

  • Google Cloud renamed Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and the docs, pricing and SLA now use that name while the API host stays aiplatform.googleapis.com source
  • SLA of 99.5 per cent a month on generateContent and streamGenerateContent, falling to 95 per cent for short-term availability models, Gemini 3.7 and 3.6 Flash among them on 6 November 2026 source
  • Gemini 4 Argon (GA on 13 October 2026) and Gemini 3.8 Flash sit in the 12-month tier on 6 November 2026, while Gemini 3.7 and 3.6 Flash are short-term models with at least 45 days' notice source
  • Model Garden partner models include Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5 (added 7 October 2026) and Fable 5.1, xAI Grok 4.7 (GA on 27 October 2026) and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Public Preview source
  • Google won't train on customer data without permission, flagged prompts may be logged up to 90 days for abuse monitoring, and zero retention needs an exception request source
  • Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 retain prompts and responses up to 30 days and require sharing that data with Anthropic for abuse monitoring source
  • Gemini 4 Argon has a unified 1,048,576-token limit for input and output, implicit caching only, and ignores custom temperature, top_p and top_k source

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 16%20 19.8
Google Cloud status dashboard with per-product history (20). Its incident feed, read on 6 November, has no incident naming Vertex Gemini API, Gemini or the Agent Platform in the 90 days. The regional incidents of 20 August, 1 September and 20 October (europe-west2) and the Cloud Storage incident of 8 and 9 October didn't list it among affected products (30). Standard PayGo publishes usage tiers by 30-day spend with baseline throughput, 2,000,000 to 50,000,000 tokens a minute for Flash models and 500,000 to 10,000,000 for Pro, plus quota tables for other methods (15). A 429 page says to use the global endpoint and truncated exponential backoff, and a retry-strategy page (15). SLA of 99.5 per cent a month on generateContent and streamGenerateContent, 95 per cent for short-term availability models, and a latency SLO on Provisioned Throughput. The 429 page says pay-as-you-go 429s don't count toward the SLA error rate (10). Gemini 4 Argon reached GA on 13 October and Gemini 3.8 Flash moved to the 12-month tier, and the v1 API, 3.5 Flash-Lite and Claude Opus 5.5 are GA, but express mode was Preview at the 6 October check (9 of 10, up from 8). Up from 98 on 6 October.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 13%16.2 15.3
Model reading. Keyless discovery document for the Agent Platform API v1, revision 20260930, with 1,128 methods and 1,493 schemas (25). No llms.txt, but every docs page answers as Markdown at .md.txt, counted as for vertex-ai-tuning (10). Model cards give limits, capabilities and retirement dates, and the 3.8 Flash card says when to use 3.7 Flash instead, but the docs mix the Vertex AI and Agent Platform names, and the OpenAI page tells new users to call the Gemini Developer API instead (16 of 20). Structured output with response_schema and response_mime_type: application/json always follows the schema per the docs, and complex schemas fail with a 400 (15). Examples on every page and a 429 guide, but we found no full error code list for generateContent (13 of 15). Versioned v1 and v1beta1 APIs and release notes with entries on most working days, newest 5 November 2026 (15).
Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 13%16.2 15.8
Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Function calling with FunctionCallingConfig mode ANY and allowedFunctionNames to force a named tool (20). Schema-guaranteed JSON output (15). Implicit and explicit context caching, cached input at 0.1x, $0.075 per million on 3.8 Flash through 31 December (15). 1,048,576-token context on 3.8 Flash, a unified 1,048,576-token input and output limit on Gemini 4 Argon, and 1,000,000 on Claude Opus 5.5 (15). Flex/Batch at half price on Gemini (10). Gen AI SDKs for Python and JavaScript among others, and the OpenAI libraries work with Google Cloud auth (10). 429 handling documented per quota framework, with standard Google status codes elsewhere (12 of 15).
Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 14%17.5 17.0
Model reading. OAuth 2.0 with IAM roles and service accounts, which the docs recommend for production, with API keys for testing. No key in a query string found in the docs we read (30). The training restriction in the Service Specific Terms says Google won't use customer data to train or fine-tune any model without permission, GA and pre-GA alike (20). Default in-memory caching for 24 hours that can be disabled, flagged prompts logged up to 90 days unless an abuse-monitoring exception is granted or the customer has a Cloud Master Agreement, the Interactions API storing by default, and Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 requiring 30-day retention shared with Anthropic (12 of 15, a judgement call matching the Fable exception on the Anthropic and Bedrock listings). Cloud Audit Logs, with Data Access logs off until enabled, and optional request-response logging to BigQuery (15). google.com security.txt valid to 2030-04-01, the Google VRP, and Generative AI on the platform in ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 and SOC 1, 2 and 3 scope per the 1 October services-in-scope check for vertex-ai-tuning, not re-read on 6 October (20).
Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 10%12.5 5.0
No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices per model and option published without a login (20). Express mode gives new Google Cloud users 90 days free within quotas with no billing details, though it's in Preview and needs a @gmail.com account (20). A person signs up in the console to get the express key (0).
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 7%8.8 8.0
Model reading. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash GA on 5 November, Grok 4.7 GA on 27 October, Gemini 4 Argon GA on 13 October and Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October 2026 (30). Stable models stay at least 12 months, and since 6 October Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini 3.8 Flash are in that tier, while 3.7 and 3.6 Flash remain short-term with at least 45 days' notice once a date is set (10 of 12, up from 8). Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite were due to retire on 20 October, three models on one date after more than 12 months, with replacements named. We didn't check partner model retirements (6 of 8, down from 8). Dated release notes on most working days, newest 5 November, and Cloud Customer Care (15). python-genai replies not sampled this run (5 of 10). Current SDKs, google-genai 3.0.0 on 6 November and @google/genai 3.0.0, and google-cloud-aiplatform 2.7.0 on 28 October 2026 (15). Supported runtimes stated, Python 3.10 or later and Node 20 or later, per the 6 October check (10). Unchanged at 91.
Transparency & trusteditorial 83, provenance 97checked 6 November 2026 7%8.8 7.9
Closed service under the Google Cloud terms, with the Gen AI SDKs under Apache-2.0 and a public discovery document (18, as for Bedrock's open service models). The zero data retention and abuse monitoring pages agree with the Cloud terms and give periods for each case, 24 hours in memory, up to 90 days for flagged prompts, 30 days for Advanced AI models, 3 days for Search grounding logs and 30 days for Maps grounding, and say which can't be switched off (27 of 30). A dated model versions table with release and retirement dates and a stated 12-month or 45-day policy, but on 6 November it still listed Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite as available with a 20 October 2026 retirement date and left them out of the retired table (18 of 20, down from 20). The Cloud subprocessor list with locations, per the 1 October vertex-ai-tuning check, regional and multi-region endpoints, and per-model ML processing locations on the partner model cards (20).
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total88.7 · AA

Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.

Score history no moves since it was graded

Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS

  1. Graded 88.7 AA methodology v0.7

Fix list 15 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform). A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • Changed since 6 October 2026 (rechecked 6 November). Gemini 4 Argon GA on 13 October and Gemini 3.8 Flash moved from short-term to the 12-month tier (reliability 98 to 99; maintenance notice up, churn down, still 91); Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite due to retire on 20 October but still shown as available (transparency 85 to 83); Claude Haiku 5.5, Grok 4.7 GA and google-genai 3.0.0 added; no Vertex incident on the status feed
  • unchecked: partner model retirements (Claude, Llama, Mistral and others) in the last 90 days, which sit outside the Gemini model versions table
  • unchecked: services-in-scope and subprocessor list were not re-read on 6 October and rely on the 1 October vertex-ai-tuning check
  • The Claude Opus 5.5 batch prices on the pricing page ($2.50/$12.50) are more than half the $4/$20 list price, unlike other models; we couldn't tell whether this is a page error
  • Whether Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite were retired on 20 October 2026 or extended, since the model versions table read on 6 November still lists them as available with that date
  • unchecked on 6 November: express mode's Preview status, the SLA pages and the zero data retention and abuse monitoring pages, which rest on the 6 October reading

Sources 25

  1. status incident feed status.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  2. generative AI SLA cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  3. platform SLA cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  4. SLA index cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  5. pricing cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  6. quotas docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  7. Standard PayGo tiers docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  8. 429 errors docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  9. model versions and retirement docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  10. zero data retention docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  11. abuse monitoring docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  12. express mode docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  13. API keys docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  14. quickstart docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  15. OpenAI compatibility docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  16. structured output docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  17. Gemini 3.8 Flash card docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  18. Claude Opus 5.5 card docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-10-06
  19. release notes docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  20. discovery document aiplatform.googleapis.com · seen 2026-10-06
  21. google-genai on PyPI pypi.org · seen 2026-11-06
  22. google-cloud-aiplatform downloads pypistats.org · seen 2026-11-06
  23. security.txt google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  24. Gemini 4 Argon card docs.cloud.google.com · seen 2026-11-06
  25. google-cloud-aiplatform on PyPI pypi.org · seen 2026-11-06

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Pricing & changes

Pay per use from $0.30 / 1M in Per-token prices per model, with global and higher non-global rates and Standard, Priority and Flex/Batch options. Gemini 4 Argon costs $4/$20 per million, with 50% credits back through 2026-11-30. Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75/$3.75 through 2026-12-31, then $1.50/$7.50. Claude Opus 5.5 $4/$20. Batch and Flex half price on Gemini. Only requests that return 200 are charged. Express mode gives new users 90 days free with no billing details (https://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/generative-ai/pricing).

Models and prices per million tokens

ModelInputOutputContextRoleSupports
gemini-3.1-pro-previewGemini 3.1 Pro (preview) · $4/$18 over 200K tokens$2$121.05Mflagshipnot checked
gemini-3.8-flashGemini 3.8 Flash · 2026-09 · global price; $1.50/$7.50 from 2027-01-01; short-term availability$0.75$3.751.05Mdefaultnot checked
gemini-3.5-flash-liteGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · 2026-07 · available until 2027-07-21 or later$0.30$2.501.05Mfastnot checked
claude-opus-5-5Claude Opus 5.5 · 2026-09 · partner model, global price$4$201Mflagshipnot checked

Every model here is also on the price index next to the other providers. Rate limits depend on your account tier: Google Cloud's rate limits.

What a task costs estimated, per task

ModelResearch reportSmall websiteBug fix
gemini-3.1-pro-previewno cache price published, so cached reads are at the input price$22.03$5.09$1.09
gemini-3.8-flashno cache price published, so cached reads are at the input price$8.23$1.88$0.41
gemini-3.5-flash-liteno cache price published, so cached reads are at the input price$3.34$0.79$0.16
claude-opus-5-5no cache price published, so cached reads are at the input price$43.88$10.03$2.16

Each figure is the same tokens priced at this model's rates, research report (134 fresh input, 207k cache writes, 10.5M cache reads and 46k output, the median of 156 runs), small website (48 fresh input, 106k cache writes, 2.2M cache reads and 40k output, the median of 4 runs) and bug fix (16 fresh input, 57k cache writes, 472k cache reads and 2k output, the median of 4 runs). We measured the tokens with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, so another model may use more or fewer tokens for the same job, and these compare prices, not how well or how efficiently each model works. Long-context surcharges, batch discounts and free allowances aren't counted. How we measured them.

Prices

ItemPriceUnitNote
Grounding with Google Search over 5,000 a month (Gemini 3)$14per 1,000 requests

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Dated changes shutdowns, breaking changes, price changes

  • Shutdown gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite retire source
  • Shutdown gemini-3.6-flash retires source
  • Shutdown gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio retires source
  • Price change Gemini 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 Flash prices double to $1.50/$7.50 source
  • Shutdown gemini-3.7-flash retires source

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Recent changes

  • gemini-3.7-flash retires source
  • Gemini 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 Flash prices double to $1.50/$7.50 source
  • gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio retires source
  • gemini-3.6-flash retires source
  • Latest release
  • gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite retire source

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Install

pip install google-genai   # or: npm i @google/genai

First request

curl -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
  "https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/${GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT}/locations/global/publishers/google/models/gemini-3.8-flash:generateContent" \
  -d '{"contents":{"role":"user","parts":{"text":"Explain how AI works in a few words"}}}'

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