Vertex AI pricing
Prices are listed in US Dollars (USD). If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
This page covers pricing for Generative AI on Vertex AI. For all other Vertex AI pricing including ML Platform and MLOps services please refer to Vertex AI pricing page.
Google foundational models
Multimodal
With the Multimodal models in Vertex AI, you can input either text or media (images, video). Text input is charged by every 1,000 characters of input (prompt) and every 1,000 characters of output (response). Characters are counted by UTF-8 code points and white space is excluded from the count, resulting in approximately 4 characters per token. Prediction requests that lead to filtered responses are charged for the input only. At the end of each billing cycle, fractions of one cent ($0.01) are rounded to one cent. Media input is charged per image or per second (video).
| Model | Feature | Type | Price |
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| Gemini 1.0 Pro | Multimodal | Image Input Video Input Text Input |
$0.0025 / image $0.002 / second $0.000125 / 1k characters |
| Text Output | $0.000375 / 1k characters | ||
| Gemini 1.5 Pro | Multimodal | Image Input Video Input Text Input Audio Input |
$0.00265 / image $0.00265 / second $0.0025 / 1k characters $0.00025 / second |
| Text Output | $0.0075 / 1k characters | ||
| Grounding with Google Search | Text | Grounding requests | $35 / 1k requests |
Prices are listed in US Dollars (USD). If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Image generation
With the Image Generation feature of Vertex AI, you can generate novel images and edit images based on text prompts you provide, or edit only parts of images using a mask area you define along with a host of other capabilities.
| Model | Feature | Description | Input | Output | Price |
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| Imagen | Image generation | Generate an image | Text prompt | Image | $0.020 per image |
| Image editing | Edit an image using mask free or mask approach | Image/Text prompt | Image | $0.020 per image | |
| Upscaling | Increase resolution of a generated image to 2k and 4k | Image | Image | $0.003 per image | |
| Fine-tuning | Enable a "subject" provided by the user to used in Imagen prompts (few shot training) | Subject(s) with text identifier and 4-8 images per subject | Fine-tuned model (after training with user provided subjects) | $ per node hour (Vertex AI custom training pricing) | |
| Visual Captioning | Generate a short or long text caption for an image | Image | Text caption | $0.0015/image | |
| Visual Q&A | Provide an answer based on a question referencing an image | Image/Text prompt | Text answer | $0.0015/image |
Prices are listed in US Dollars (USD). If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Multimodal Embeddings API
| Model | Feature | Description | Input | Output | Price |
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| multimodalembeddings | Embeddings for Multimodal: Text | Generate embeddings using text as an input | Text | Embeddings | $0.0002 / 1k characters input |
| Embeddings for Multimodal: Image | Generate embeddings using image as an input | Image | Embeddings | $0.0001 / image input | |
| Embeddings for Multimodal: Video | Video Plus | Video | Embeddings (up to 15 embeddings per min of video) | $0.0020 per second of video | |
| Embeddings for Multimodal: Video | Video Standard | Video | Embeddings (up to 8 embeddings per min of video) | $0.0010 per second of video | |
| Embeddings for Multimodal: Video | Video Essential | Video | Embeddings (up to 4 embeddings per min of video) | $0.0005 per second of video |
Prices are listed in US Dollars (USD). If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Text generation
Generative AI on Vertex AI charges by every 1,000 characters of input (prompt) and every 1,000 characters of output (response). Characters are counted by UTF-8 code points and white space is excluded from the count. During the Preview stage, charges are 100% discounted. Prediction requests that lead to filtered responses are charged for the input only. At the end of each billing cycle, fractions of one cent ($0.01) are rounded to one cent.
| Model | Type | Region | Price per 1,000 characters |
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| PaLM 2 for Text (Text Bison) | Input | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| PaLM 2 for Text 32k (Text Bison 32k) | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| PaLM 2 for Text (Text Unicorn) |
Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| PaLM 2 for Chat (Chat Bison) | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| PaLM 2 for Chat 32k (Chat Bison 32k) | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Embeddings for Text | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Codey for Code Generation | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Codey for Code Generation 32k | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Codey for Code Chat | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Codey for Code Chat 32k | Input | Global |
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| Output | Global |
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| Supervised Tuning | us-central1 europe-west4 |
$ per node hour Vertex AI custom training pricing | |
| Codey for Code Completion | Input | Global |
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Prices are listed in US Dollars (USD). If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Example cost calculation
If a user sends five separate requests to the PaLM Text Bison model, and each request has a 200-character input and 400-character output, the total charge is calculated as follows:
Input cost:
200 input characters x 5 prompts = 1,000 total input characters;
1,000 total input characters x ($0.00025 / 1000) = $0.00025 input cost.
Output cost:
400 output characters x 5 prompts = 2,000 total output characters;
2,000 total output characters x ($0.0005 / 1000) = $0.001 output cost.
Total cost:
$0.00025 input cost + $0.001 output cost = $0.00125 total cost.
Partner models
Partner models are a curated list of generative AI models developed by Google partners. Partner models are offered as managed APIs. For more information, see Overview of partner models. The following table lists pricing details for Google partner models:
Anthropic’s Claude 3 models
| Model | Pricing |
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| Claude 3 Opus | Input: $15 / million tokens Output: $75 / million tokens |
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Input: $3 / million tokens Output: $15 / million tokens |
| Claude 3 Haiku | Input: $0.25 / million tokens Output: $1.25 / million tokens |