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Index Vendors › Google Vertex AI · September 2026 Edition
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Google Vertex AI

143Judge labels
15First choices
28Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
17% in ML platforms for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 99 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 44 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In ml platforms · 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 Google 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
ML platformsData platform8%4 of 9920%44accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google 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 Google 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 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash04015
Perplexity Sonar02013
Grok 4.1 Fast10326
Mistral Small03115
DeepSeek V4 Flash22015
Llama 4 Maverick01214
Qwen 3.7 Flash01113
Kimi K202103
GLM 4.7 FlashX12014
MiniMax M2.502002

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
Direct29 labels8
Paraphrase30 labels5
Comparative34 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels2
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative24 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative143 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 22 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.

“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

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.

“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

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Vertex AI, over the 143 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Vertex AI was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Amazon SageMaker129 of 14311Not in the top three
Azure Machine Learning113 of 14312Not in the top three
Databricks75 of 14322Not in the top three
DataRobot62 of 1431Not in the top three
Dataiku47 of 1433Not in the top three
MLflow44 of 1435Not in the top three
H2O.ai42 of 1431Not in the top three
Kubeflow28 of 1431Not in the top three
Domino Data Lab23 of 1432Not in the top three
KNIME20 of 1433Not 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 Google 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 120 of the 143 answers that named Google Vertex AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com63
checkthat.ai39
learn.g2.com34
thirstysprout.com30
truefoundry.com28
dataiku.com26
techtarget.com26
articsledge.com25
trustradius.com25
devopsschool.com24

320 of the 320 domain citations in answers naming Google Vertex AI came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Vertex AI

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Vertex AI; a claim can dispute any of them.
Google Cloud Vertex AI 6Vertex AI 4Google Cloud AI Platform (Vertex AI) 2Google Cloud AI Platform 1Google Cloud Vertex AI (GCP) 1Google Vertex AI (AI Platform) 1Google Vertex AI (Google Cloud) 1
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