AWS Bedrock vs Azure AI Foundry vs Google Vertex AI vs Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: Which LLM Platform Should You Build On?

LLM platform selection in 2026 is presented as increasingly driven by model availability, pricing, regional data residency, and agent tooling rather than by an organization’s existing cloud provider. Amazon Bedrock is positioned as offering the broadest third-party model catalogue, especially Claude and open models, while Azure AI Foundry is oriented toward enterprise GPT deployments, Google Vertex AI is the only platform among the four with Gemini and also offers Claude, and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio focuses on Qwen, Chinese models, and lower list prices for some open models. The comparison notes that identical models can have substantially different prices across providers, while EU- or US-pinned deployments may add 10–20% to costs. It recommends choosing platforms based on required models, regional processing requirements, and the ability to adapt as models and pricing change, and promotes Eden AI as a multi-cloud gateway that unifies access to these platforms, supports routing, fallbacks, cost-based selection, and EU-only traffic through a single OpenAI-compatible API.

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