# Google Vertex AI alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 164 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Google Vertex AI holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-vertex-ai/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Azure Machine Learning: 21
- Databricks Mosaic AI: 20
- Amazon SageMaker: 5
- Dataiku: 5
- DataRobot: 4
- Google Colab: 4

## ML platforms

**Small business**: 51 of 84 answers did not name Google Vertex AI (Google Vertex AI is #1 of 15 at 20%).

- Azure Machine Learning: first choice in 4 of those 51
- Hugging Face: first choice in 4 of those 51
- Amazon SageMaker: first choice in 3 of those 51
- DataRobot: first choice in 3 of those 51
- Google Cloud AutoML: first choice in 2 of those 51
- Google Colab: first choice in 2 of those 51
- Modal: first choice in 2 of those 51
- Anyscale: first choice in 1 of those 51

**Mid-market**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Google Vertex AI (Google Vertex AI is #9 of 15 at 2%).

- Azure Machine Learning: first choice in 6 of those 53
- Databricks Mosaic AI: first choice in 5 of those 53
- Dataiku: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Google Colab: first choice in 2 of those 53
- MLflow: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Amazon SageMaker: first choice in 1 of those 53
- DataRobot: first choice in 1 of those 53
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: first choice in 1 of those 53

**Enterprise**: 60 of 84 answers did not name Google Vertex AI (Google Vertex AI is #5 of 11 at 4%).

- Databricks Mosaic AI: first choice in 15 of those 60
- Azure Machine Learning: first choice in 11 of those 60
- Dataiku: first choice in 3 of those 60
- Domino Data Lab: first choice in 2 of those 60
- Amazon Bedrock: first choice in 1 of those 60
- Amazon SageMaker: first choice in 1 of those 60
- Azure AI: first choice in 1 of those 60

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