The short answer
NotebookLM Enterprise, which Google renamed Gemini Notebook Enterprise on July 16, 2026, costs $9 per license per month with a minimum of 15 licenses, so the smallest subscription is $135 a month or $1,620 a year. Google also includes it in the Gemini Enterprise Business edition, which starts at $21 per seat. The catch is scope: a notebook works on files you add to it, copied in as static snapshots, and it has no connectors to SharePoint, Confluence, Slack or Jira. It is a cheap, well-governed research notebook, not a way to search the whole company.
Figures from cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise/gemini-notebook, the Gemini Enterprise product page, Google Cloud's NotebookLM Enterprise documentation and release notes, read October 6, 2026, plus Internet Archive captures of the product page from December 2024 to September 2026.
Most people who search for NotebookLM Enterprise pricing have already used the free consumer version, liked it, and now want it approved for work. That usually means a security review, a procurement form and a budget line, so the questions are practical: what does a license cost, how many do we have to buy, is it already in something we pay for, and will it do the job the team actually has in mind.
The price turns out to be the easy part. Google publishes it, and it is low. The harder question is whether the job you have in mind is the job a notebook does. We sell InSearch, a search tool that answers questions across a company's apps, so we have a view on where that line sits. Where NotebookLM is the better and cheaper buy, we say so below.
How much does NotebookLM Enterprise cost?
Google's product page lists NotebookLM Enterprise at $9 per license per month after a trial, with a minimum of 15 licenses. A subscription can hold up to 5,000 licenses, and Google's setup documentation says you can choose monthly or yearly billing, either set to auto-renew. Google has never published how large the yearly discount is.
That makes the floor $135 a month. Here is what the published rate looks like at sizes we see in real rollouts, next to the two other ways Google sells it and next to our own list price.
| Users | NotebookLM Enterprise at $9 | Gemini Enterprise Business from $21 | InSearch Team at $20 (annual) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 (Google's minimum) | $135 a month, $1,620 a year | $315 a month, $3,780 a year | $300 a month, $3,600 a year |
| 100 | $900 a month, $10,800 a year | $2,100 a month, $25,200 a year | $2,000 a month, $24,000 a year |
| 500 | $4,500 a month, $54,000 a year | Not available. Business is capped at 300 seats, so this size needs Standard from $30 | $10,000 a month, $120,000 a year |
Two things stand out. First, $9 is a genuinely low number for an enterprise-governed AI tool, lower than almost anything else in this category. Second, the comparison is not like for like, which is the point of the rest of this article. The $9 buys a notebook. The other two columns buy search over connected company systems.
Has the NotebookLM Enterprise price changed?
The price has not moved since Google first published it, but the wording around it has. Internet Archive copies of the product page from December 2024 and January 2025 show "early access" and no price. From February 10, 2025 to August 23, 2026 the page read "$9 USD per license per month with discounted option for yearly subscriptions". Some time between August 23 and September 24, 2026 that became the current line, "30-day trial then $9 USD per license per month (minimum 15 licenses)". So the 15 license minimum appeared on the marketing page only recently, although the documentation already stated it.
Is NotebookLM Enterprise included in Gemini Enterprise?
Yes, on the seat-based editions. Google's documentation says you can buy it "as a standalone product or as part of Gemini Enterprise". The Gemini Enterprise page lists the notebook in Business, which starts at $21 per seat per month for up to 300 seats, and in Standard and Plus, which start at $30 and add the compliance features. The newer pay-as-you-go option, with a $0 seat fee, states that "Gemini Notebook is not currently included". We break down the editions themselves on our Gemini Enterprise pricing page.
If you already pay for Gemini Enterprise seats, do not buy standalone notebook licenses for the same people. If you only want the notebook, the standalone $9 license is less than half the cheapest Gemini Enterprise seat.
Is there a free trial of NotebookLM Enterprise?
Yes, but Google's own pages disagree on its length. The product page says a 30-day trial. The licensing documentation, updated October 5, 2026, still describes "a full-featured, 14-day trial subscription of 5000 licenses", the same wording it carried in October 2025. Plan your pilot around 14 days and treat anything longer as a bonus. The trial is started from the Google Cloud console under Gemini Enterprise, then Manage users, then Add subscription.
What do you get for $9 a license?
The enterprise edition has higher limits than the consumer free tier and runs inside your own Google Cloud project, with that project's identity, network and encryption controls. The documented per-user limits are 500 notebooks, 300 sources per notebook, sources up to 500 MB or 500,000 words each, and 500 chat queries a day. Studio outputs are capped per user per day: 20 each for audio overviews, video overviews, mind maps and reports, and 15 each for slide decks and infographics.
On security, the enterprise edition supports VPC Service Controls, customer-managed encryption keys and data residency in the US or EU multi-regions. Sign-in runs through Cloud Identity or, through workforce identity federation, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping and other SAML or OIDC providers. Notebooks can only be shared inside the same project and never publicly. Google's release notes record HIPAA support from March 31, 2025, and audit logs were added on February 4, 2026. Google states that content is not reviewed by people or used to improve its models. For a regulated US company that needs a governed place to work over a set of documents, this is a strong package for the money.
Can NotebookLM Enterprise connect to SharePoint, Confluence or Slack?
No. A notebook works on sources you add to it: Google Docs and Slides, PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files, text and Markdown, audio, images, YouTube videos, public web pages and pasted text. Google's documentation says that when you add a document, "a static copy of the document is created for analysis." SharePoint, Confluence, Slack, Jira and OneDrive do not appear anywhere in the enterprise documentation as live sources. The marketing line about Microsoft 365 sources means uploading those files.
Two details matter for planning. A static copy does not update when the original changes, so a notebook built on last quarter's policy keeps answering from last quarter's policy until someone re-adds it. And since September 9, 2026, projects that use VPC Service Controls cannot add website URLs as sources at all. Live connectors exist in Google's stack, but they belong to the Gemini Enterprise app, not to the notebook, and from Gemini Enterprise you can currently only search your notebooks by title, a feature still in preview.
NotebookLM Enterprise vs enterprise search: which should you buy?
Buy NotebookLM Enterprise when a defined group works deeply on a defined set of documents. Buy enterprise search when the problem is that nobody knows which system holds the answer. Those are different jobs, and the price gap reflects it.
NotebookLM is the better choice for a legal team reviewing a deal room, an analyst group reading a stack of research reports, a compliance team working through a regulation and its guidance, or an enablement team building training material from a fixed curriculum. In that last case, if the end product is an assessment, you can also turn the same PDFs into a quiz for the people being trained. Fifteen licenses at $9 for that kind of group is hard to beat, and we would not try to sell you a search seat instead.
It is the wrong tool when the question is "what did we agree with this customer", "which version of the travel policy is current" or "who owns this integration". Those answers live in Slack threads, Jira tickets, Confluence pages, Drive folders and the CRM, they change every week, and the person asking does not know where to look. A notebook only knows what someone put in it. This is the gap enterprise search fills: it indexes the connected systems under each person's existing permissions and answers with citations to the live source. We cover that difference in more depth in deep document analysis vs enterprise search, and if your team is on Google Cloud and tempted to build search itself, Vertex AI Search pricing vs buying enterprise search runs those numbers.
How do companies use both?
Plenty of US companies end up with both, and it is a sensible split. The notebook licenses go to the 15 or 30 people who do sustained document work. Everyone else gets one place to ask a question across the tools the company already runs. With InSearch that is unified search across your work apps at $20 per user per month billed annually on Team, $32 on Business with Confluence, Jira and Salesforce connectors plus SSO, and $49 on Scale with audit logging, from three seats, bought by card with no sales call. Answers are scoped to what each person can already open in the source app, and nothing is used for training.
A quick way to decide: list the last ten questions people asked in your busiest internal Slack channel. If most of them could be answered from one folder of documents, start with notebooks. If the answers were scattered across four systems, start with search, and try the InSearch demo on those exact questions before you buy.
Before you sign
- Confirm whether the people involved already hold Gemini Enterprise Business, Standard or Plus seats, since the notebook is included there.
- Ask Google for the yearly discount in writing. It exists on paper and has never been published.
- Pick the multi-region carefully. Licenses only work in the multi-region you choose at purchase.
- Plan a 14 day pilot, not 30, until Google's documentation and product page agree.
- Write down who will re-add sources when the originals change, because notebooks hold static copies.