Databricks AI (formerly Mosaic AI) vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI)

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

Databricks AI (formerly Mosaic AI) Build, serve and govern AI agents next to your lakehouse data Visit Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) Google Cloud's AI and agent platform, renamed from Vertex AI in 2026 Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.3 / 10 7.8 / 10
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Pricing Usage_based Usage_based
Free tier Free Edition for learning only (no commercial use, no GPU serving, quota limits); 2-week trial with up to $400 of usage New Google Cloud customers get $300 credit valid 90 days. Express mode lets new users try Agent Platform APIs free for up to 90 days within quotas, no billing info
Paid from From $0.07/DBU for model serving (Premium, AWS US East); usage-based, varies by cloud and region Pay as you go, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite from $0.25 per 1M input tokens (global)
Has API ✓ ✓
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Free to use ✓ ✗
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Founded 2023 2021
Maker Databricks, Inc. Google LLC
Verdict

Databricks AI makes sense when your data already lives in Databricks: agents, model serving, AI Search and Unity Gateway governance all work against Unity Catalog without copying data to another platform. Agent Bricks an...

Vertex AI's successor is a mature, broad platform: Gemini and 200-plus other models, agent tooling from Agent Studio to the open-source ADK, and the full machine-learning stack tightly integrated with BigQuery, with regi...

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