Congrats on the move to Google!
Congrats on the move to Google! Please allow me to rant to someone who can actually do something about this. Vertex AI has been a nightmare to simply sign up, link a credit card, and start using Claude Sonnet (now available on Vertex AI). The sheer number of steps required for this (failed) user journey is dizzying: * AI Studio, get API key * AI Studio, link payment method: Auto-creates GCP property, which is nice * Punts to GCP to actually create the payment method and link to GCP property * Try to use API key in Claude Code; need to find model name * Look around to find actual model name, discover it is only deployed on some regions, thankfully, the property was created on the correct region * Specify the new endpoint and API key, Claude Code throws API permissions errors * Search around Vertex and find two different places where the model must be provisioned for the account * Need to fill out a form to get approval to use Claude models on GCP * Try Claude Code again, fails with API quota errors * Check Vertex to find out the default quota for Sonnet 4.5 is 0 TPM (why is this a reasonable default?) * Apply for quota increase to 10k tokens/minute (seemingly requires manual review) * Get rejection email with no reasoning * Apply for quota increase to 1 token/minute * Get rejection email with no reasoning * Give up Then I went to Anthropic's own site, here's what that user journey looks like: * console.anthropic.com, get API key * Link credit card * Launch Claude Code, specify API key * Success I don't think this is even a preferential thing with Claude Code, since the API key is working happily in OpenCode as well.
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Congrats on the move to Google!
Congrats on the move to Google! Please allow me to rant to someone who can actually do something about this. Vertex AI has been a nightmare to simply sign up, link a credit card, and start using Claude Sonnet (now available on Vertex AI). The sheer number of steps required for this (failed) user journey is dizzying: * AI Studio, get API key * AI Studio, link payment method: Auto-creates GCP property, which is nice * Punts to GCP to actually create the payment method and link to GCP property * Try to use API key in Claude Code; need to find model name * Look around to find actual model name, discover it is only deployed on some regions, thankfully, the property was created on the correct region * Specify the new endpoint and API key, Claude Code throws API permissions errors * Search around Vertex and find two different places where the model must be provisioned for the account * Need to fill out a form to get approval to use Claude models on GCP * Try Claude Code again, fails with API quota errors * Check Vertex to find out the default quota for Sonnet 4.5 is 0 TPM (why is this a reasonable default?) * Apply for quota increase to 10k tokens/minute (seemingly requires manual review) * Get rejection email with no reasoning * Apply for quota increase to 1 token/minute * Get rejection email with no reasoning * Give up Then I went to Anthropic's own site, here's what that user journey looks like: * console.anthropic.com, get API key * Link credit card * Launch Claude Code, specify API key * Success I don't think this is even a preferential thing with Claude Code, since the API key is working happily in OpenCode as well.
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