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Google Vertex AI vs MLflow
Google Vertex AI or MLflow? 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: Command line, API, Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
- Only Google Vertex AI states: Agent that edits files, Choice of models, Runs models for you, Search over your data
- Only MLflow states: Self-hosted
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.
MLflow
MLflow is an open-source platform for tracking, evaluating, deploying, and monitoring machine learning models, LLM applications, and agents.
Plans
Not read from the maker’s page yet.
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “The easiest way to start MLflow server is to run the mlflow CLI command in your terminal.” source
- Self-hosted — “Thousands of users and organizations run their own MLflow instances to meet their specific needs.” source
- API — “This page hosts the API documentation for MLflow.” source
- Official SDKs — “Python API” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Hands-on guides and code examples for building Agents and LLM applications with MLflow.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Capture complete traces of your LLM applications and agents to get deep insights into their behavior.” source
Latest updates
- MLflow 3.16.0 Highlights: Build-Your-Own Trace Views, a Redesigned Trace Explorer, and Span Links (3.16.0)
Build trace views in plain English, use the trace explorer, and record links between spans.
- MLflow 3.15.0 Highlights: MCP Registry, a Smarter Assistant, and Multimodal Judges (3.15.0)
Register and share MCP servers, choose LLM providers in the Assistant, save and share Runs table views, transfer artifacts using presigned URLs, and evaluate image…
- MLflow 3.14.0 Highlights: One-Line Agent Onboarding, Review Queues, Pytest Integration, and the LLM Playground (3.14.0)
Onboard apps with mlflow agent setup, collect trace reviews, manage evaluation datasets in the UI, run pytest regression tests, and use an in-browser LLM Playground.