Best AI vendors for government

Best AI vendors for the public sector. Ranked under government-weighted criteria emphasizing jurisdiction, security, and transparency, filtered to FedRAMP-authorized vendors.

Federal agencies cannot use cloud services that are not FedRAMP authorized at or above the impact level required for their data. State and local programs increasingly mirror this through StateRAMP. The vendors below are scored under weights that emphasize jurisdiction, security, and transparency, and filtered to those with an active FedRAMP authorization. Note that authorization level (Low / Moderate / High) and boundary scope must be verified per service before procurement.

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Top vendors under federal, state, and local government weights

Filter applied: only vendors with FedRAMP authorization appear in this list. Vendors that may meet your needs but lack public attestation are not shown.
1. Amazon (AWS)
HQ: United States
Cloud infrastructure leader that develops proprietary Titan models and custom Trainium/Inferentia chips while offering multi-model access th…
Score 12.34 · low
2. Salesforce
HQ: United States
Enterprise CRM leader that combines proprietary AI models (Einstein, CodeGen, xGen) with OpenAI integration for Einstein GPT, embedding AI a…
Score 12.74 · low
3. IBM
HQ: United States
Enterprise technology company offering the watsonx AI platform with proprietary Granite foundation models. Combines own model development wi…
Score 14.11 · low
4. Microsoft
HQ: United States
Global technology conglomerate that both develops proprietary AI models (Phi series) and deeply integrates OpenAI models across its Copilot …
Score 14.68 · low
5. Adobe
HQ: United States
Creative software leader that developed proprietary Firefly image generation models trained exclusively on licensed content, while integrati…
Score 13.74 · low
6. SAP
HQ: Germany
Global enterprise software company integrating AI through its Joule AI assistant across ERP, supply chain, and business applications. Combin…
Score 16.63 · low
7. Google DeepMind
HQ: United States
Google's unified AI research lab combining DeepMind and Google Brain, building the Gemini model family integrated across Google products and…
Score 18.85 · low
8. Palo Alto Networks
HQ: United States
Leading cybersecurity company integrating AI across its security platform through Cortex XSIAM (AI-driven security operations), Prisma Cloud…
Score 19.89 · low
9. Oracle
HQ: United States
Enterprise cloud and database company offering OCI AI Services with both proprietary AI capabilities and third-party model hosting. Provides…
Score 19.89 · low
10. Nuance (Microsoft)
HQ: United States
Healthcare AI unit of Microsoft providing clinical speech recognition and ambient documentation through Dragon Medical One and DAX Copilot. …
Score 20.86 · moderate
11. Workday
HQ: United States
Enterprise HR and finance platform integrating AI features across workforce management, payroll, and financial planning. Uses proprietary ML…
Score 22.45 · moderate
12. Scale AI
HQ: United States
Data infrastructure company providing AI training data labeling, model evaluation, and RLHF services. Operates both human-in-the-loop data a…
Score 23.3 · moderate
13. ServiceNow
HQ: United States
Enterprise workflow automation platform integrating AI through Now Assist, which combines ServiceNow's proprietary Now LLM models with OpenA…
Score 24.4 · moderate
14. Mosaic (Databricks)
HQ: United States
Mosaic AI (formerly MosaicML, acquired by Databricks in 2023 for $1.3B) is the generative AI platform within Databricks. Enables model train…
Score 22.6 · moderate
15. Snowflake
HQ: United States
Cloud data platform with Cortex AI, providing LLM-powered SQL functions, document processing, and AI assistants that operate directly on dat…
Score 24.36 · moderate
16. SentinelOne
HQ: United States
Autonomous cybersecurity platform combining proprietary behavioral AI models with Purple AI, a generative assistant for threat hunting and S…
Score 22.96 · moderate
17. Datadog
HQ: United States
Cloud monitoring and security platform that has expanded into AI observability with LLM Observability for monitoring model performance, cost…
Score 24.41 · moderate
18. Databricks
HQ: United States
Unified data analytics and AI platform combining data lakehouse, ML ops, and generative AI capabilities. Offers Foundation Model APIs that i…
Score 25.4 · moderate
19. Cloudflare
HQ: United States
Edge network and security company that operates Workers AI, an inference platform running open-weight models on its global network. Hosts mo…
Score 25.89 · moderate
20. GitHub Copilot
HQ: United States
AI pair programming tool integrated into VS Code, JetBrains, and other IDEs. Provides code completion, chat assistance, and code review powe…
Score 27.12 · moderate
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