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Google Vertex AI vs Weights & Biases

Google Vertex AI or Weights & Biases? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Command line, API, Official SDKs, Runs models for you, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
  • Only Google Vertex AI states: Agent that edits files, Choice of models, Search over your data
  • Only Weights & Biases 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

About Google Vertex AI

Weights & Biases

AI developer platform for tracking experiments, managing models and datasets, and evaluating and monitoring AI applications.

Plans

Free

Free

  • AI application evaluations
  • AI application tracing
  • AI application scorers
  • AI model experiment tracking
  • AI assets registry & lineage tracking
  • Community Support

Pro

  • Starts at $60/month, billed monthly
  • Unlimited teams for collaboration
  • Team-based access controls
  • Service Accounts
  • Priority email & chat support
  • CI/CD automations
  • Slack and email alerts

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Single tenant option with choice of region
  • HIPAA compliant option
  • Secure private connectivity
  • Customer-managed encryption key
  • Single Sign On
  • Automated user provisioning

Personal

Free

  • 1 user seat
  • Experiment tracking
  • Registry & lineage tracking
  • Run a W&B server locally on any machine with Docker and Python installed
  • For personal projects only. Corporate use is not allowed.

Advanced Enterprise

Price on request

  • Flexible deployment options
  • HIPAA compliant option
  • Secure private connectivity
  • Customer-managed encryption key
  • Single Sign On
  • Automated user provisioning

Free forever for academic research

Free

  • All the product features included on Pro
  • Unlimited tracked hours
  • 200GB of cloud storage
  • Up to 25GB/mo of Weave data ingestion
  • Up to 100 seats
  • Additional cloud storage can be purchased for $0.03 per GB, billed monthly

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Command line — “You can then use the command line to start the server.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Self-hosting allows you to run Weights & Biases on your own infrastructure, giving you full control over your data and privacy.” source
  • API — “Each inference API has different costs for input and output tokens.” source
  • Official SDKs — “Core | Reports | Automations | SDK” source
  • Runs models for you — “Inference Access and explore hosted AI models” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “W&B Weave: Build agentic AI applications” source
  • Traces and evaluates — “Monitor and analyze the performance of your GenAI models during development and in production, capturing inputs, outputs, and metadata for each inference.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
  • SOC 2 — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
  • ISO 27001 — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
  • HIPAA — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
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