diff --git a/comfy_api_nodes/nodes_vertex_gemini.py b/comfy_api_nodes/nodes_vertex_gemini.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2349ac445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/comfy_api_nodes/nodes_vertex_gemini.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+from inspect import cleandoc
+from google import genai
+from google.genai.types import HttpOptions
+
+from comfy.comfy_types.node_typing import IO, ComfyNodeABC, InputTypeDict
+from comfy_api_nodes.apinode_utils import validate_string
+from server import PromptServer
+
+
+class VertexGeminiAPI(ComfyNodeABC):
+    """
+    Generates images synchronously via OpenAI's GPT Image 1 endpoint.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+    @classmethod
+    def INPUT_TYPES(cls) -> InputTypeDict:
+        return {
+            "required": {
+                "prompt": (
+                    IO.STRING,
+                    {
+                        "multiline": True,
+                        "default": "",
+                        "tooltip": "Text prompt for GPT Image 1",
+                    },
+                ),
+                "model": (
+                    IO.STRING,
+                    {
+                        "default": "gemini-2.0-flash-001",
+                        "tooltip": "The gemini model to use"
+                    }
+                )
+            },
+        }
+
+    RETURN_TYPES = (IO.STRING,)
+    FUNCTION = "api_call"
+    CATEGORY = "api node/text/gemini/vertex"
+    DESCRIPTION = cleandoc(__doc__ or "")
+    API_NODE = True
+
+    def api_call(
+        self,
+        prompt,
+        model="gemini-2.0-flash-001",
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        validate_string(prompt, strip_whitespace=False)
+        client = genai.Client(http_options=HttpOptions(api_version="v1"))
+        response = client.models.generate_content(
+            model=model,
+            contents=prompt,
+        )
+        print(response.text)
+        PromptServer.instance.send_progress_text(response.text)
+        return response.text
+
+# A dictionary that contains all nodes you want to export with their names
+# NOTE: names should be globally unique
+NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS = {
+    "VertexGeminiAPI": VertexGeminiAPI,
+}
+
+# A dictionary that contains the friendly/humanly readable titles for the nodes
+NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS = {
+    "VertexGeminiAPI": "VertexGeminiAPI",
+}
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diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index 54e3886a3..33c911207 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -2280,6 +2280,7 @@ def init_builtin_api_nodes():
     api_nodes_files = [
         "nodes_ideogram.py",
         "nodes_openai.py",
+        "nodes_vertex_gemini.py",
         "nodes_minimax.py",
         "nodes_veo2.py",
         "nodes_kling.py",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8f7a78984..ef3dbc9f6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Pillow
 scipy
 tqdm
 psutil
+google-genai
 
 #non essential dependencies:
 kornia>=0.7.1