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Here, we performed integrated plasma proteomic, lipidomic, and metabolomic profiling of 53 SARS-CoV-2\u2013na\u00efve adults vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. Samples were analysed across multiple timepoints using differential analysis and DIABLO-based multi-omics integration. Our findings reveal distinct platform-associated multi-omic molecular signatures not captured by unsupervised analyses alone. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination was associated with widespread increases in immunoglobulin and complement associated proteins, together with broad decreases in lipid abundance and bidirectional metabolite changes. In contrast, the Moderna vaccination was associated with predominantly increased lipid abundance and bidirectional metabolite changes, with minimal univariate proteomic changes. AstraZeneca induced subtler yet coherent cross-omic shifts, detectable only through integrative modelling approaches. Despite these platform-associated differences, Pfizer and Moderna shared concordant changes in a subset of metabolites, including amino-acid and TCA-cycle-associated features, within divergent lipidomic contexts. These findings demonstrate that even closely related mRNA vaccine platforms are associated with distinct systemic molecular response patterns. 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