| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML platforms | Data platform | 8% | 4 of 99 | 20% | 44 | accepted challenger |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“graduate to Vertex AI for production. It consistently offers the best price-performance ratio for budget-conscious companies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ML platforms · budget prompt · first choice
“Google Cloud Vertex AI (especially Vertex AI Pipelines) is the most balanced, end‑to‑end MLOps platform for your stage.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ML platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“most often Amazon SageMaker (if on AWS), Google Vertex AI (GCP), or Azure Machine Learning (Azure)” Grok 4.1 Fast · ML platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“(SageMaker, Azure ML, or Vertex AI) — it ships fastest, integrates cleanly, and scales with you” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ML platforms · direct prompt · first choice
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.
“Avoid these platforms if you are a small team, a startup, or just starting out.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ML platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“It can require significant setup/migration outside GCP and may be budget-heavy; generative AI token pricing can be hard to forecast.” Perplexity Sonar · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Excellent integration if you're committed to one cloud, but their proprietary APIs ... make migration costly and difficult” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Watch Out For: It can become very expensive with large data workloads, and it offers fewer pre-built industry models” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 120 of the 143 answers that named Google Vertex AI and are not a share of its labels.
320 of the 320 domain citations in answers naming Google Vertex AI came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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