Key findings
- Business costs US$21 per user per month paid annually, for up to 300 users with a 30-day trial; Standard costs US$30 and Plus US$50.
- Standard and Plus pool Assistant queries per edition, project and location: 160 per Standard licence and 200 per Plus licence a day.
- Case Western Reserve University announced Gemini Enterprise accounts for all faculty, staff and students on Oct 16, 2026, while barring restricted data from any AI system.
- An independent three-week test in October 2025 measured simple queries at 15 to 30 seconds and complex automations near 60 seconds.
Gemini Enterprise, which absorbed Google Agentspace on Oct 9, 2025 and which Google's landing page now markets as Gemini for Business, sells one assistant and agent app in four editions. The seat price sets most of the bill, while daily query pools, connector lists and security controls differ by edition. Named rollouts so far are a university and two Google Cloud partners, and independent practitioners report slow agent runs and connector gaps.
What a seat buys
Every edition includes the Gemini Enterprise app, connectors to work tools, Gemini Notebook and Google-made agents such as Deep Research, and the no-code Workflow Builder for custom agents. Business is self-serve for teams up to 300, with no Google Cloud project. Standard and Plus add more connectors, higher quotas and security controls.
Agents built on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or the Agent Development Kit can be published into the app. Seats cover Google's first-party models; partner models such as Claude bill separately by consumption.
How quotas and controls change by edition
Standard and Plus pool daily Assistant queries per edition, project and location, so 100 Standard licences share 16,000 queries a day and pools do not combine across editions. Since Oct 22, 2026, admins can cap a single user's share.
Standard and Plus add customer-managed keys, VPC Service Controls and Cloud audit logging, and Google lists Gemini Enterprise in its HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 pages. Data at rest can stay in the us or eu multi-regions or listed in-country regions.
What rollouts and practitioners report
Case Western Reserve University is giving accounts and training to all faculty, staff and students, with higher-tier licences on request. Cognizant and Wipro, both Google Cloud partners that also sell Gemini Enterprise services, report large internal deployments.
Independent accounts are more critical. One evaluator found simple queries took 15 to 30 seconds and the agent prioritized a Jira ticket already marked done. Practitioners also report custom MCP connectors that never load tools, and confusion between Gemini Enterprise, Agent Platform and the older Vertex AI names.
Methodology
GILD built this piece from Google's Gemini Enterprise pages, pricing, SKU catalog and documentation on editions, quotas, locations, compliance and audit logging, all checked Oct 28, 2026. Prices are list prices in US dollars per user per month. Rollout and practitioner accounts are public pages dated 2025 or later, each linked in Sources.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Official documentation
- 8
- Public source
- 4
- Google Cloud: Gemini Enterprise Business edition
- Google Cloud SKUs: Gemini Enterprise
- Google Cloud: Gemini Enterprise FAQ
- Gemini Enterprise documentation: Compare editions
- Gemini Enterprise documentation: Quotas and pay-as-you-go usage
- Gemini Enterprise documentation: Locations and data residency
- Gemini Enterprise documentation: Compliance and security controls
- Gemini Enterprise documentation: Release notes
- Case Western Reserve University UTech: CWRU partners with Google to expand campus-wide AI access with Gemini Enterprise (Oct 16, 2026)
- Mark Ekvall, Tested In Production: Gemini Enterprise, Google's bet on agents (Oct 24, 2025)
- r/googlecloud: Gemini Enterprise custom MCP connectors do not reload tools (Jun 29, 2026)
- r/googlecloud: Gemini Enterprise timeouts in EU (Oct 22, 2026)