# Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases vs Google Vertex AI Search

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

| Attribute | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | Google Vertex AI Search |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.8 (62% (medium)) | 22.7 (25% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is a fully managed service that integrates generative AI applications with company proprietary data sources. It handles data ingestion, embedding, storage, and retrieval from sources like S3, SharePoint, and Confluence, and integrates natively with Bedrock agents to build AI systems without custom code. | A comprehensive development platform that enables teams to rapidly create and scale autonomous agents powered by multiple AI model options, with built-in governance, enterprise data grounding, and integration capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"multimodal_rag":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"SharePoint"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"OneDrive"},{"name":"Web crawlers"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock AgentCore"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Strands"}]` | `[{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Google Cloud Logging"},{"name":"Google Cloud Monitoring"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Cloud Data Fusion"},{"name":"Cloud Dataflow"},{"name":"Cloud Composer"},{"name":"Service Directory"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","DE","IE","JP"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["US","GB","DE","IE","IT","SE","JP","IN","BR","SG"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"Pay per page ($0.010), per Retrieve API call ($1.00/1k), and per image for fine-tuning ($0.005)","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"Retrieve API calls"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"image"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"On-demand pricing based on usage","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Flex","summary":"50% discount to Standard tier pricing","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"of":"Standard tier pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":50}],"description":"Discounted on-demand pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Priority","summary":"75% premium to Standard tier pricing","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"of":"Standard tier pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":175}],"description":"Premium on-demand pricing for priority access","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Reserved","summary":"Per-hour pricing per model unit with commitment discounts","features":["Reserved model units","Committed pricing"],"commitment":"monthly","description":"Committed capacity pricing with 1-month or 6-month terms","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Custom Model Storage","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1.95,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Batch Inference","components":[{"of":"On-demand inference pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":50}]}],"summary":"Usage-based starting at $0.010 per page and $1.00 per 1,000 API calls. Free managed search index. Multiple tiers available (Standard, Flex, Priority, Reserved).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:21:34.026Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"image","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Pay-as-you-go for platform tools, storage, compute, and cloud resources. New customers receive $300 in free credits.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai-search-and-conversation","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T11:00:35.778Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | unknown |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:14:42.618Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*