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Google Vertex AI vs IBM watsonx
Google Vertex AI or IBM watsonx? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Runs models for you, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data
- Only Google Vertex AI states: Agent that edits files, Command line, Official SDKs, Traces and evaluates
- Only IBM watsonx states: Knows the whole codebase
Google Vertex AI
Google Cloud's platform for building, deploying, governing, and optimizing AI agents and machine-learning models.
Plans
Imagen model for image generation
$0.0001
- Pricing is based on image input, character input, or custom training
Text, chat, and code generation
$0.0001 per 1,000 characters
- Charges are based on input prompt and output response characters
Custom model training
Contact sales
- Pricing depends on machine type, region, and accelerators
Agent Platform notebooks
Refer to products
- Compute and storage use the rates for Compute Engine and Cloud Storage
Agent Platform Pipelines
$0.03 per pipeline run
- Execution charges, resource usage, and additional service fees may apply
Agent Platform Vector Search
Refer to example
- Costs depend on data size, queries per second, and node count
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Agent that edits files — “Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud's comprehensive platform for developers to build, scale, govern and optimize agents.” source
- Command line — “Download Antigravity and log in to the desktop application or Antigravity CLI using your standard Google Cloud credentials.” source
- Choice of models — “Choose from Google’s latest multimodal models like Gemini 3.7 Flash, third-party models like Anthropic's Claude Model Family, and open models like Gemma in Model Garden .” source
- API — “Set up the Agent Platform Gemini API” source
- Official SDKs — “Install the Agent Platform SDK for Python” source
- Runs models for you — “When you're ready to use your model to solve a real-world problem, register your model to Model Registry and use the Agent Platform prediction service for batch and online predictions.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud's comprehensive platform for developers to build, scale, govern and optimize agents.” source
- Search over your data — “Grounding responses using RAG” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Our Model Evaluation service provides enterprise-grade tools for objective, data-driven assessment of generative AI models.” source
Latest updates
- Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 is available in Model Garden.
- CodeMender updates (v0.9.0) (v0.9.0)
Updated cm report --format html; added --open, scanning support for C#, Rust, Kotlin, Ruby, and PHP, and per-turn latency metrics.
- xAI's Grok 4.6 is generally available
Grok 4.6 is available for production use on the global endpoint and the US multi-region endpoint.
IBM watsonx
IBM watsonx is an AI and data platform for building AI applications, managing data, deploying agents and governing AI workflows.
Plans
Free
Free
- Toolbox playground
- Foundation models: up to 300,000 tokens per month
- Machine learning tools: up to 20 Compute Usage Hours (CUH) per month
- Text extraction: up to 100 documents per month
Essentials (Pay-as-you-go)
Free
- Production deployments
- Model price breakdown
- Feature-specific price breakdown
Standard (Pay-as-you-go)
- Starting at USD 1110/month*
- Enterprise production
- Model price breakdown
- Feature-specific price breakdown
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Knows the whole codebase — “Accelerate across your SDLC with an AI partner that understands your codebase through deep context awareness and helps you accomplish end-to-end development tasks.” source
- Choice of models — “Choose from a range of models hosted on watsonx” source
- API — “Using IBM watsonx.ai as a Service APIs, you can run text inference, prompt tuning and more on Large Language Models (LLM)” source
- Runs models for you — “Choose from a range of models hosted on watsonx” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Increase productivity by easily creating, deploying and managing AI assistants and agents to automate and simplify business and customer-facing processes.” source
- Search over your data — “Supports retrieval augmented generation (RAG)” source
Latest updates
- Change in withdrawal date for a deprecated model in watsonx.ai
all-minilm-l6-v2 will now be withdrawn on 12 January, 2027.
- Faster navigation with simplified menu
The primary menu has focused views for AI resources, Data, Projects, Operations, and Administration.
- Deprecation of unstructured synthetic data for the Synthetic Data Generator
Generating unstructured synthetic data with the Synthetic Data Generator is deprecated and will be removed on 15 October 2026.