# Requirements & Compatibility

Agent Mode requires access to cloud-based LLM services for inference. This page covers which deployment types support Agent Mode and what setup is needed.

## Supported Deployments

| Deployment Type           | Agent Mode | Setup Required                                                                                              |
| ------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **groundcover Cloud**     | Yes        | None                                                                                                        |
| **BYOC AWS**              | Yes        | None                                                                                                        |
| **BYOC GCP**              | Yes        | [Enable models in Vertex AI](/architecture/byoc/setup-byoc-with-gcp/enable-ai-models-for-agent-mode.md)     |
| **BYOC Azure**            | Yes        | None ([what gets provisioned](/architecture/byoc/setup-byoc-with-azure/enable-ai-models-for-agent-mode.md)) |
| **On-premises (AWS/GCP)** | Yes        | Contact your account team                                                                                   |

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**No cost until you use it.** Agent Mode is enabled by default on groundcover Cloud and BYOC deployments once provisioning completes, and you're only billed for LLM inference when users actually start using the Agent. On-premises deployments require account-team provisioning (see the table above). GCP is the only deployment type that requires a manual setup step, because Google Cloud requires customers to explicitly approve third-party Anthropic models in Vertex AI Model Garden before they can be invoked. AWS Bedrock and Azure Foundry have no equivalent gate.
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For on-premises deployments on AWS or GCP, groundcover can provision the required LLM services (AWS Bedrock or Google Cloud Vertex AI) to enable Agent Mode. Contact your groundcover account team to set this up.

### GCP BYOC setup

GCP BYOC deployments require manually enabling the Anthropic Claude models in your project's Vertex AI Model Garden before Agent Mode will work. See [Enable AI models for Agent Mode](/architecture/byoc/setup-byoc-with-gcp/enable-ai-models-for-agent-mode.md) for step-by-step instructions.

All other supported deployment types work out of the box with no additional setup.


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