Comparison

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases vs Google Vertex AI Search

On the evidence we track, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases leads this comparison with a composite score of 58/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases58
Google Vertex AI Search47
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases58 / 100medium · 74%
Google Vertex AI Search47 / 100low · 34%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✓
Model
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Basescommercial
Google Vertex AI Searchfreemium
Price level
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Basesfree
Google Vertex AI Searchlow
Starting price
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases$0
Google Vertex AI Search–
Transparent
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✗
Integrations
Count
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases7
Google Vertex AI Search8
Security
Certifications
Google Vertex AI Search–
Disclosure policy
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search–
Fedramp
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search–
Gdpr
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search–
Hipaa
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search–
Pci
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search–
Trust center
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Baseshttps://aws.amazon.com/security/
Google Vertex AI Search–
Reliability
Status page
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases7 items
Google Vertex AI Search6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for rag tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Hybrid retrieval
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases-
Google Vertex AI Search-
Reranking integration
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search-
Multi hop agentic retrieval
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search-
Embedding provider agnostic
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases-
Google Vertex AI Search-
LLM provider agnostic
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✓
Built in rag eval metrics
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search-
Citation attribution
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases-
Google Vertex AI Search-
Multimodal rag
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✓
Managed ingestion pipeline
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✓
Open source
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✗
Google Vertex AI Search-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Leader

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases automates linking AI models to your organization's data, from extracting and indexing documents to executing intelligent searches that provide models with current, relevant context.

Independently observed

Google Vertex AI Search

A Google-managed cloud solution that enables rapid development of search engines powered by generative AI and retrieval-augmented generation, supporting indexing and searching across websites and enterprise data.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Leader
from $0/moUsage-based

Usage-based pricing: free multimodal parsing, $1.00 per 1,000 Agentic Retrieve API calls, $0.010 per processed page

  • Standard TierFree parsing, $1.00 per 1,000 Agentic API calls, $0.010 per page processed
    • Multimodal document parsing
    • Embeddings generation
    • Standard retrieval API
    • Agentic multi-step retrieval
    • Native connectors to S3, SharePoint, Confluence, OneDrive, Google Drive
    • +2 more
as of verify ↗

Google Vertex AI Search

Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing for tools, storage, compute, and cloud resources. New customers receive $300 in free credits.

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases✓
Google Vertex AI Search✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Leader
13 total
  • Amazon S3
  • SharePoint
  • Confluence
  • Google Drive
  • OneDrive
  • Web crawlers
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  • Asana
  • LangChain
  • Strands
  • S3
  • Bedrock Data Automation
  • Web Crawler
Independently observed

Google Vertex AI Search

9 total
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Google Cloud Logging
  • Google Cloud Monitoring
  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Data Fusion
  • Cloud Dataflow
  • Cloud Composer
  • Service Directory
  • Gemini
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases or Google Vertex AI Search: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.