OpenAI Models and Codex Are Now on Google Cloud

Google Cloud announced on October 21 that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna models, along with OpenAI's Codex agentic coding workflows, are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden, the catalog that already houses Gemini, Claude, Llama, and Mistral. The move removes the need for developers building on Google Cloud Platform to maintain a separate Azure account to access OpenAI's frontier models, with each GPT-6 model covering a different price-performance tier.

OpenAI’s biggest competitor just became one of its distributors. Google Cloud announced on October 21 that GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna — plus OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding workflows — are coming to Google Cloud’s Model Garden. For developers already building on GCP, this removes the last practical reason to maintain a separate Azure account just to access OpenAI’s frontier models. Three Models, One Catalog Google Cloud is adding three GPT-6 series models to Model Garden, the same catalog that already houses Gemini, Claude, Llama, and Mistral. Each covers a different price-performance tier: GPT-6 Astra — the high-performance option, … The post