PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Palm 2
- Released
- 2023-12-06
- Context
- 8k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI
About
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI is Google DeepMind's Palm 2 model. It offers an 8K-token context window.
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI is a proprietary model in the Palm 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through GCP Vertex AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.125 input and $0.375 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.125 | $0.375 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI?
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI cost?
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI is available at $0.125/1M input tokens through GCP Vertex AI.
When was PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI released?
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI was released on 2023-12-06.
Which providers offer PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI?
PaLM 2 (text-bison) on Google Vertex AI is available from 1 provider: GCP Vertex AI.
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI