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1 category · Named, not ranked

GCP Vertex AI

1Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
1 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. GCP Vertex AI was named 1 time in LLM gateways, where LiteLLM led with 38%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In llm gateways · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named GCP Vertex AI for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
LLM gateways and observabilityData platform0%28 of 630%1under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for GCP Vertex AI yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated GCP Vertex AI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Azure OpenAI Service, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI (major cloud providers)” Kimi K2 · LLM gateways · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GCP Vertex AI, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GCP Vertex AI was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Amazon Bedrock1 of 10Not in the top three
Anthropic1 of 10Not in the top three
Azure OpenAI Service1 of 10Not in the top three
LiteLLM1 of 10Not in the top three
OpenAI1 of 10Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named GCP Vertex AI. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 1 answers that named GCP Vertex AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

arxiv.org1
cybernews.com1
cybersecuritynews.com1
edpb.europa.eu1
gbhackers.com1
labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org1
me-en.kaspersky.com1
neuraltrust.ai1
quasa.io1
radar.offseq.com1

No domain is on file for GCP Vertex AI, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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