Gemini Enterprise

What it is

Gemini Enterprise is Google’s per-seat AI app for work: permission-aware search across your company’s systems, Google-made agents sitting on top of that index, and an Agent Designer for building your own in plain language. Google relaunched it at Cloud Next on 2026-04-22 and split the product in two — the Gemini Enterprise app, billed per seat for business users, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the consumption-billed developer platform that Vertex AI became. They are bought separately. Ops teams are buying the app.

Inside the app: Agent Designer for no-code agents, an Inbox that tracks long-running agents, Projects for shared team context, Canvas for drafting into Docs and Slides with Microsoft 365 export, and an Agent Gallery carrying partner agents from Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Adobe, and Workday.

Why it shows up in ops stacks

• It’s the Google pole on the shortlist. When the estate is Workspace plus Google Cloud, Gemini Enterprise lands on the same evaluation as Glean and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and it’s the one that bills inside an existing Google contract.
• Connectors reach past Workspace. Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Groups sync natively, and so do SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Entra ID, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Box, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack. A CS lead asking which enterprise accounts have an open Jira escalation and a renewal inside 60 days gets one answer stitched from Jira, Salesforce, and Drive, filtered by what that person is allowed to see.
• Agents get identities, not just prompts. On Agent Platform each agent carries a cryptographic identity, calls route through Agent Gateway, and Model Armor screens for prompt injection and tool poisoning — the part most in-house agent projects skip until an incident forces it.
• MCP runs both directions. Google shipped a managed remote MCP server for Agent Platform on 2026-06-30, so Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, or your own client can call Google-side agents and tools without a bespoke integration.

Pricing

Per seat, per month, from Google’s own product page:

• Business — from $21. Self-serve, no IT setup, up to 300 seats, 25 GiB of pooled indexing per seat, 30-day trial.
• Standard — from $30, quote-only past the trial. Unlimited seats, 30 GiB per seat, the full connector list, Gemini Code Assist Standard, Agent Marketplace access, and the compliance controls: data residency, CMEK, VPC Service Controls, FedRAMP, HIPAA.
• Plus — quote-only. Same feature list as Standard with the quotas raised — 75 GiB per seat, 200 Assistant queries per user per day against Standard’s 160, 10 Deep Research runs a day against 3, 10 no-code agents a day against 1. Reseller guides put Plus near $50/seat on annual commit; Google doesn’t publish the number, so treat it as a quote input rather than a price.
• Frontline — an add-on for Standard or Plus customers at 150+ seats. 2 GiB per seat, and users run agents an admin provisioned rather than building any.
• Agent Platform — a separate Google Cloud bill on pay-as-you-go consumption.

Quotas pool by edition within a project: 200 Standard seats share 32,000 Assistant queries a day, and one heavy user can draw 500 of them before anyone else logs in.

Best for

• RevOps, CS, and legal ops teams already standardized on Google Workspace and Google Cloud that want retrieval, agents, and governance on one bill
• Teams under 300 seats that want to start without a procurement cycle — $21 self-serve is the lowest published entry price in the enterprise search-plus-agents set
• Regulated orgs that need data residency, customer-managed keys, and VPC Service Controls applied to the AI layer, not just the storage under it

Alternatives — and when to pick them instead

• Glean — pick it when the estate is genuinely multi-vendor and retrieval quality is the entire job. It runs roughly double the price ($40-50/user/mo with a 100-seat minimum) and stays vendor-neutral about which model answers.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot — the other giant, and the one to pick when Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint hold most of the work. Its $30/user/mo published price matches Gemini Standard, and the Google-side connectors stop earning their keep.
• ChatGPT Enterprise — the fastest-growing entrant here. Pick it when the team wants a general assistant with connectors rather than search over your systems, or when the seat count is too small for a Google or Microsoft enterprise motion.

Watch-outs

• Business edition is not a smaller Standard. It ships without the full connector list, Code Assist, Agent Marketplace access, and the enterprise security and compliance controls. Guard: write down the source systems you must index before starting the $21 trial — if SharePoint, ServiceNow, or Salesforce is on that list, price Standard and skip the trial’s conclusions.
• The seat fee is not the bill. Quotas pool by edition, and Agent Platform consumption arrives as a separate Google Cloud line. Guard: multiply seats by the per-user quota, compare it against expected daily use, and set a Cloud budget alert on the Agent Platform project before rollout, not after the first invoice.
• Workspace already includes a Gemini app. Google ships the Gemini app at no extra cost to Workspace commercial customers, and it already reads Gmail, Drive, and Chat. Guard: run two weeks on the bundled app first, and buy Gemini Enterprise only for the questions that failed because the answer lived outside Google.
• Google’s own docs disagree on the Business ceiling. The product page and the FAQ both say up to 300 seats; the editions comparison table says 1-500 users. Guard: if the rollout plan crosses 300 seats, get the ceiling written into the order form or start on Standard.