Which is cheaper, Amazon SageMaker or Google Vertex AI?

GCP is cheaper in 2 of 3 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 64.5%.

How do Amazon SageMaker and Google Vertex AI compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Jun 18, 2026AWSGCP

Overall Winner

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AWS Wins

GCP Wins

Ties

GCP wins 2 of 3 price comparisons, averaging 64.5% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.003508/hr to $18.00/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for ML Instance workloads

Comparing Amazon SageMaker and Google Vertex AI across 3 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon SageMaker	GCP Google Vertex AI	Diff	Cheapest
Machine Learning - Machine Learning	$0.0360/hr USE1-Bbox:PublicTaskAt0.036 ($26.28/mo)	$0.0327/hr 03D5-264F-B1E0 ($23.88/mo)	+9.1%	GCP
Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker	$0.1510/hr USE1-UnifiedStudio:Notebook-sc.r6i.large ($110.23/mo)	$0.0035/hr 01A7-BF08-79D5 ($2.56/mo)	+97.7%	GCP
ML Instance - ml.r6i.8xlarge	$2.4190/hr ml.r6i.8xlarge ($1,765.87/mo)	$18.0000/hr 0D3F-45C3-B37B ($13,140.00/mo)	+86.6%	AWS