Google Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) vs Snowflake Cortex

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Google Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) Google Cloud's model garden, training, and agent stack Visit Snowflake Cortex SQL-callable LLM functions and agents that run inside Snowflake Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.8 / 10 7.2 / 10
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Pricing Freemium Paid
Free tier $300 free trial credit (90 days); separate rate-limited Gemini API free tier (~1,000 req/day) 30-day trial, $400 usage credit (or $40 for Cortex Code CLI); no card required to start
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Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 1998 2012
Maker Alphabet Inc. Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Żukowski
Verdict

Google folded Vertex AI and Agentspace into what it now markets as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, but the job is unchanged: build and run production generative AI on GCP. The draw is model choice through the Model...

If your data already lives in Snowflake, Cortex spares you from standing up a separate AI pipeline: you call an LLM the same way you'd call any SQL function. AI_COMPLETE, AI_CLASSIFY and AI_EXTRACT cover the common jobs,...

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