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Google launches Gemini Enterprise, a $30-per-seat platform for workplace AI agents
Google is betting that the next phase of enterprise AI is not a chatbot but a managed fleet of agents that touch company data across Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce and SAP.
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Google on Thursday introduced Gemini Enterprise, a platform that lets employees build, deploy and govern AI agents over company data without writing code. The service starts at $30 per seat per month for large organizations; a smaller Gemini Business tier costs $21 per seat per month and includes a 30-day free trial. Google says it will upgrade existing Agentspace customers to the new subscriptions at no extra charge for the remainder of their contracts.
The platform connects to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, as well as business applications including Salesforce and SAP, and includes prebuilt Google agents for software development, data science and customer engagement, plus a central dashboard for auditing and securing every agent. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian called it a new front door for AI in the workplace. Early customers include Figma, Klarna, Macquarie Bank, Gordon Food Service and Virgin Voyages, which has deployed more than 50 specialized agents.
The launch lands three days after OpenAI showed third-party apps inside ChatGPT, and the same day Amazon’s cloud unit announced its own no-code agent service, Quick Suite. Gartner’s Chirag Dekate says most enterprises are still testing rather than deploying agents at scale, and that Google’s governance and security controls will matter as much as the models underneath.
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CEO of Google Cloud described Gemini Enterprise as a 'new front door for AI in the workplace' and said consulting, telecom, software, hospitality and manufacturing firms are already using it in a variety of scenarios.
Gartner analyst said big companies are more likely to be exploring or testing AI agents than deploying them at scale, but that Google's security and governance controls should ease concerns among large firms evaluating agent systems. He added that how Google leverages its unified messaging in the Gemini 3.0 launch sequence, which is coming soon, will be a crucial litmus test, and whether it can offer a same-day sort of innovation cycle rather than staggered adoption patterns.
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On Alphabet's Q4 2025 earnings call in February 2026, Sundar Pichai said Google had sold more than 8 million paid Gemini Enterprise seats to over 2,800 companies in the four months since launch.
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