Amazon Bedrock is a model provider option for building AI agents. Frontier models inside your AWS account, with IAM and VPC boundaries.
Worth knowing. Use when procurement needs the model call to stay inside your cloud account.
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| Option | What it does | Licence | Self-host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | Frontier models inside your AWS account, with IAM and VPC boundaries. | Proprietary | No |
| Anthropic | Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku. Strong tool use and long-horizon agentic work. | Proprietary | No |
| OpenAI | GPT and o-series via the Responses API. | Proprietary | No |
| Google Gemini | Gemini models with very long context and native multimodality. | Proprietary | No |
| Google Vertex AI | Claude and Gemini under GCP billing, IAM and regional controls. | Proprietary | No |
| DeepSeek | Strong reasoning and coding at a fraction of frontier pricing, with the weights published so you can move off the API later. | Proprietary | No |
| OpenRouter | One API key, several hundred models, automatic failover. | Proprietary | No |
| Hugging Face | One OpenAI-compatible endpoint routed across Groq, Together, Fireworks, Cerebras and Replicate — with the open-weight catalogue behind it. | Proprietary | No |
| Venice AI | Hosted open-weight inference with no prompt logging or retention, plus an anonymising proxy in front of the frontier APIs. | Proprietary | No |
| LiteLLM | Self-hosted proxy that speaks one API to 100+ providers, with keys and budgets. | Open source | Yes |
| Groq | Open-weight models at very low latency. | Proprietary | No |
| Ollama | Open-weight models on your own machine. Nothing leaves the box. | Open source | Yes |
| vLLM | High-throughput open-weight serving on your own GPUs. | Open source | Yes |
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