Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) vs Google Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry)
Microsoft's Azure hub for enterprise models and agents
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Google Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
Google Cloud's model garden, training, and agent stack
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | No advertised free tier; usage bills from first request under the default S0 tier | $300 free trial credit (90 days); separate rate-limited Gemini API free tier (~1,000 req/day) |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 1975 | 1998 |
| Maker | Microsoft Corporation | Alphabet Inc. |
| Verdict | Renamed from Azure AI Foundry to Microsoft Foundry in January 2026 — the name changed, the product and your deployments didn't. It's Microsoft's enterprise AI hub: a model catalog that now spans OpenAI, Anthropic's Claud... |
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... |
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