Claude on Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the other major partner-operated route to Claude. Same models, Google’s billing, Google’s quotas, Google’s retirement schedule.

Three endpoint types, not two

Where Bedrock offers global and regional, Google Cloud offers three:

Endpoint	Routing	Price
Global	Dynamic, worldwide	Standard
Multi-region	Dynamic within a geographic area	+10%
Regional	A specific region	+10%

Multi-region is the middle option that does not exist on Bedrock: geographic constraint without pinning to one region.

Model IDs use @

claude-haiku-4-5@20251001 — an @ before the date, where Bedrock uses -v1:0 and the Claude API uses nothing. Any code building IDs by string concatenation across providers will produce invalid ones.

The longest tail for retired models

Google Cloud is where retired models live longest. Claude Opus 4 is listed as retired except on Google Cloud; Claude Opus 4.1, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Haiku 3.5 remain available on Bedrock and Google Cloud after first-party retirement.

If you have a genuine reason to stay on an older model — a locked evaluation, a reproducibility requirement — this is the practical route. Just do not mistake it for a permanent one.