Which is cheaper, Amazon SageMaker or Google Vertex AI?

AWS is cheaper in 2 of 3 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 61.8%.

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

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated May 21, 2026AWSGCP

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

GCP Wins

Ties

AWS wins 2 of 3 price comparisons, averaging 61.8% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.003513/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)	$0.0364/hr 1012-03DD-9022 ($26.54/mo)	+1.0%	AWS
Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker	$0.1510/hr USE1-UnifiedStudio:Notebook-sc.r6i.large ($110.23/mo)	$0.0035/hr 0F3E-377D-C365 ($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