Capabilities and workflow
| Criterion | StayCharted AI Model Trainer | Gemini on Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Upload a table of text and approved categories | Cloud project, supported model and prompting or tuning workflow |
| Evaluation | Held-out accuracy report by category | Configure task evaluation with Google’s evaluation tools |
| Serving cost | Hosted use within plan allowances; own-AI usage billed separately | Model-specific inference pricing and tuning charges |
| Human review | Review Queue on Essentials and Business | Integrate a review workflow |
| Use Gemini without training | Your AI Models through a Google Cloud connection | Prompt Gemini directly |
Fit by requirement
Google Cloud
Your team wants Gemini’s broader capabilities and manages the cloud application.
StayCharted
Your task is recurring categorization, with a readable report and a review workflow.
Before choosing
Check which AutoML service you used before planning migration. Benchmark the new workflow on the same held-out examples, then update the application integration and monitor new category errors.
Sources
Google retirement dates · checked October 18, 2026Migration to Gemini · checked October 18, 2026Google Cloud pricing · checked October 18, 2026Product names belong to their respective owners. StayCharted is not affiliated with the vendors compared here.
StayCharted plans and workflow
Free covers text and includes up to one AI Classifier Model. Essentials is $49/month and Business is $99/month per workspace. Pictures require Vision: +$49/month on Essentials or +$99/month on Business. Dedicated AI Models require Business. Prices are USD.
StayCharted trains and runs its own models, or uses your company’s own AI for text classification. With the Your AI Models add-on ($49/month on Essentials, $99 on Business), it uses your AI on Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, Google Cloud, OpenAI or Anthropic, gives it your categories and most similar past examples, and tests it on rows it hasn’t seen. On Business, Dedicated AI Models can also be trained in your own Amazon Bedrock; the trained model stays in your AWS account. Your own AI options
- Every training run reports accuracy on examples not used to train the model, overall and by category. Answers include confidence.
- Data-quality checks and personal-information masking before text training are available on every plan.
- On Essentials and Business, answers below your review cutoff, from files, Google Sheets, the REST API (including Zapier, Make, Power Automate and ServiceNow) and AI assistants, wait in one Review Queue; reviewed answers go into the next version’s training. Grouping unlabeled examples is also included; pictures require Vision.
- Picture checks flag near-duplicates and potentially mislabeled examples. Location metadata is stripped from the copies used by the model; original uploads are retained unchanged until deletion.
StayCharted is a hosted service: there’s no on-premises version, and it can’t import models trained elsewhere. A Builder can download a trained Dedicated AI Model (its adapter, which needs the exact base model and your own inference software), an AI Classifier Model or an AI Image Classifier Model from the model’s Manage tab. A Classifier Model runs only inside StayCharted, and a model trained in your own Amazon Bedrock is already in your AWS account.
Compare plans and allowances · Model options and downloads · Data handling
Common questions
Can I reuse my AutoML training file?
Reuse the underlying text and labels if you have rights to them. Convert export-specific columns into a clean input-and-category table, and retain a separate test set. Model weights and endpoints do not transfer.
Is Gemini prompting the same as a trained model?
No. Prompting supplies instructions and examples at request time. Fine-tuning changes model parameters. StayCharted supports trained classifiers and, through Your AI Models, prompting your own provider with examples.