Google Cloud Vertex AI

Vertex AI is Google Cloud's platform for building with Gemini and other hosted models, billed through a Google Cloud account. We cannot give you prices. When we opened Google's pricing page on 5 November 2026 our fetch returned only the page title, which now reads Agent Platform Pricing, so we list no figures and you should read that page directly. The data side we could confirm. Google's data governance page says it will not use your data to train or fine-tune models without your prior permission or instruction. Implicit caching keeps data briefly, and durable cache data is deleted within 24 hours. Customer-managed encryption keys are not supported for durable caching. The global endpoint can serve requests and cached data from any region, so a team with residency rules should pick a regional or multi-regional endpoint. Google may log prompts to detect abuse, and it says zero data retention may not be possible with some advanced AI features. To avoid retention, leave request-response logging off and set store to false in the Interactions API, where it defaults to true. This is a read of published pages, not a test by us. Facts come from Google's data governance page we checked on 5 November 2026.