Google Agentspace vs Gemini Enterprise: What Actually Changed

This is one of those searches that exists purely because a vendor renamed something mid-cycle. If you evaluated Google's enterprise search product in early 2025, you evaluated Agentspace. If you pick the evaluation back up now, everything is called Gemini Enterprise, the editions are different, the pricing page looks nothing like your notes, and it is not obvious whether you are looking at the same product or a replacement for it.

You are looking at the same lineage. Here is what actually changed, what did not, and which parts of your old evaluation you can still trust.

What is the difference between Google Agentspace and Gemini Enterprise?

The difference is scope and branding, not architecture. Agentspace was Google Cloud's enterprise search and agent product: connect your company's data sources, search across them, and run agents on top. Gemini Enterprise is what Google built on that foundation and launched on October 9, 2025. Google's own documentation now describes the product as "an intranet search, AI assistant, and agentic platform" that provides "permissions-aware access to enterprise information."

What got added around the search core is the interesting part. Gemini Enterprise bundles a multimodal assistant, a set of prebuilt agents including Deep Research, NotebookLM, Idea Generation and Data Insights, and a no-code agent builder. Where Agentspace read as "enterprise search with agents attached," Gemini Enterprise reads as "an agent platform that happens to include very good enterprise search." Google Cloud's leadership has been calling it the new front door for AI in the workplace, which tells you where the emphasis now sits.

The second rename is the one that confuses people who work adjacent to the platform. At Cloud Next in 2026 Google rebranded Vertex AI as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. So the developer-facing services your ML team uses and the seat-licensed workplace product your employees use now share a family name while remaining different purchases with different billing.

Do existing Agentspace customers have to migrate?

No. This is the opposite of what AWS did with Amazon Kendra and Amazon Q Business, where products were closed to new customers and buyers were pointed at a successor that required real rebuild work. Google performed a rename and an expansion, not a deprecation. There is no cutoff date to diarize, no index to rebuild, no connectors to reauthorize because a product line ended.

What does change for existing customers is commercial. Your renewal conversation will use the new edition names and the new billing structure, and the feature set you are being sold against is bigger than the one you originally bought. That is worth preparing for, because it is easy to end up on a higher edition than your actual usage justifies simply because the ladder now has more rungs.

What does Gemini Enterprise cost now?

Google prices it per seat with consumption charges layered on. The billing documentation states the model plainly: Gemini Enterprise is "billed on a subscription-seat basis, including potential consumption-based charges for usage that exceeds your subscription limits (quotas)." In Cloud Billing you will see a Gemini Enterprise Subscription SKU and one or more Gemini Enterprise Overage SKUs. Two lines, not one.

Charges prorate daily rather than landing as a monthly lump. Google's own billing FAQ gives the worked example: "A monthly seat fee of $30 is billed at approximately $1 per day." That $30 corresponds to the Standard annual rate. At launch Google set Business at $21 per seat per month annually, Standard at $30, Plus above that, and a custom-quoted Frontline edition for deskless workers carrying a seat minimum. Flex and month-to-month rates run higher than the annual rates, which is the usual trade.

The number nobody puts in the model is the third one: somebody has to own the Google Cloud project, the IAM roles, the data store configuration, the connector credentials and the identity sync schedules. At 50 to 300 seats that internal ownership frequently costs more than the license gap between two vendors. Our full breakdown of the tiers, quotas and overage behavior lives on the Gemini Enterprise pricing page.

What connectors does Gemini Enterprise support?

The coverage is genuinely broad, and it is one of the strongest arguments for the platform. Google documents prebuilt connectors for Microsoft SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams and Entra ID, along with Jira Cloud and Data Center, Confluence Cloud and Data Center, ServiceNow, Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365, Zoho's suite, Slack, Notion, Asana, Monday, Wrike, Linear, Box, Dropbox, Airtable, Zendesk, GitHub and GitLab, plus the native Google set of Drive, Gmail, Chat, Calendar and Sites.

Two details are easy to miss when you are counting logos. First, connectors store data in dedicated data stores and run scheduled syncs, and identity syncs can be set anywhere from every 30 minutes to every 7 days. That interval is a security parameter, not a performance one, because it determines how long a revoked permission can remain effective in search results. Second, the Business edition documents a maximum supported file size of 50 MB for most connectors and 25 MB for Microsoft Outlook. If your institutional knowledge lives in large decks and long transcripts, check that ceiling before you sign.

If a source you depend on is not on the prebuilt list, you are into custom work, and wiring an unsupported system into a platform yourself is a project with an owner and a maintenance tail rather than a configuration step. Count those sources honestly during evaluation.

Is Gemini Enterprise the same as Gemini in Google Workspace?

No, and this is the most common mix-up we see after the Agentspace question. Gemini in Workspace is the assistant living inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Meet, sold with your Workspace subscription. Gemini Enterprise is a standalone Google Cloud product with its own editions, its own billing account and its own admin surface. Buying one does not get you the other, and the two are administered by different people in most organizations.

The practical consequence is procurement. A Workspace add-on is a line item your existing Google admin can turn on. A Google Cloud product needs a project, a billing account, IAM design and someone who owns cloud operations. If nobody on your team owns Google Cloud today, that is not a blocker, but it is a real cost and it belongs in the comparison.

Should you buy the platform or the outcome?

This is the question the rename actually forces, and it is worth answering deliberately rather than by default.

Buy the platform if you have a genuine multi-agent strategy, engineers who will build with the agent builder, existing Google Cloud commitment and spend to draw down, and a security team that specifically wants VPC Service Controls and Customer Managed Encryption Keys around this workload. Under those conditions Gemini Enterprise is a strong fit and the breadth is an asset rather than overhead.

Buy the outcome if what your company is actually missing is narrower: people cannot find things. The document exists, someone wrote the answer eight months ago in a Confluence page or a Slack thread, and nobody can surface it. That problem does not need an agent builder. It needs one search across every app, a written answer with citations you can click to verify, and permissions that hold so the rollout is safe company-wide. Our Google Agentspace alternative comparison lays out that trade in detail, and the Gemini Enterprise alternative page covers the same ground against the current product name.

Frequently asked questions

Is Google Agentspace discontinued?

Not in the sense that matters. Agentspace was not shut down or closed to customers. Google renamed and expanded it into Gemini Enterprise, launched October 9, 2025. Existing capability carried forward, no forced migration was announced, and there is no end-of-life date to plan around. Only the go-to-market name was retired.

Is Agentspace still available?

Under that name, no. Google sells Gemini Enterprise now, in Business, Standard, Plus and Frontline editions. If a vendor comparison, an analyst deck or a procurement document still refers to Agentspace pricing or packaging, it predates October 2025 and the numbers in it are stale.

What replaced Google Agentspace?

Gemini Enterprise, which was built on the Agentspace foundation and launched on October 9, 2025. It keeps the enterprise search core and adds a multimodal assistant, prebuilt agents including Deep Research and NotebookLM, and a no-code agent builder. Separately, Vertex AI was rebranded as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next in 2026.

Does Gemini Enterprise respect document permissions?

Yes. Google's documentation states the product provides permissions-aware access to enterprise information and supports access-controlled search results. Connectors run identity syncs that capture user accounts associated with ACL groups, and those syncs are schedulable from every 30 minutes up to every 7 days. Choose that interval based on how quickly access changes at your company.

How much does Gemini Enterprise cost per user?

It depends on edition and commitment. At launch Google set Business at $21 per seat per month on an annual plan and Standard at $30, with Plus above that and Frontline custom-quoted with a seat minimum. Google's billing documentation uses a $30 monthly seat as its example and notes it prorates to roughly $1 per day. Consumption past your quota bills separately.

Where this leaves your shortlist

The rename cleaned up Google's story but it also raised the price of admission conceptually. You are no longer evaluating a search product from Google Cloud. You are evaluating a platform, on a four-rung edition ladder, billed as seats plus consumption, run out of a cloud project someone has to own. For a Google Cloud shop with an agent roadmap that is a good trade. For a 120-person company whose real problem is that nobody can find the onboarding doc, it is a lot of machinery.

InSearch is built for the second case on purpose. One query across Drive, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce. A written answer with inline citations to the exact source documents, so you can verify rather than trust. Item-level permissions inherited from each app and enforced at query time, so each person only ever sees what they could already open. One transparent per-seat price, no overage SKU, no cloud project, and no rename in your inbox next October. Ask a question in the box above and see what comes back.