MAEQ vs Gemini Enterprise
Google's front door for workplace AI, with its agent platform on Google Cloud.
Checked against public documentation on 14 October 2026MAEQ
Managed AI agents on any model, a branded AI portal and an enterprise context layer, with governance set once.
Gemini Enterprise
Google's front door for workplace AI, with its agent platform on Google Cloud.
Covers: Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI)
Vendor website ↗When Gemini Enterprise is the better fit
Organisations committed to Google Cloud and Google Workspace.
How MAEQ differs
MAEQ is cloud-neutral: native Snowflake and Databricks grounding and every major model, without moving onto one cloud.
29 capabilities, side by side.
Foundations
OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral (EU), Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry, side by side. Your own keys or usage-billed access.
Model Garden with Gemini, Claude and open models; your own keys are not documented.
cloud.google.com ↗EU company (Amsterdam). EU storage and vector cloud by default; US or Asia, or your own S3 or Azure Blob, on request.
EU multi-region for data storage and ML processing.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Hosted SaaS today.
Runs in your Google Cloud project only; no self-hosting.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Managed agents
Agents, portals and automations run on MAEQ; there is nothing to deploy or scale.
Agent Runtime with long-running agents and managed sessions.
cloud.google.com ↗Agents are generated from a plain-language description and automations are compiled from plain language, reviewed before saving.
Workflow Builder builds agents and workflows from plain language or a visual editor.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗The portal orchestrator routes each question to specialist agents, runs them in parallel and merges their answers.
Graph-based sub-agent networks in ADK; the Gemini agent spawns sub-agents.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Not yet. Agents carry an A2A-style description card, but there is no A2A endpoint.
A2A 1.0 in Agent Registry; A2A agent registration in Gemini Enterprise.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Shared and per-person memory; portal users can see and delete what is remembered about them.
Memory Bank and memory profiles; user-facing memory controls are not documented.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗E2B, Daytona or Blaxel workspaces, with git for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
Code, shell and computer-use sandboxes are generally available.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Tools, actions and automations
1,600+ toolkits through Composio, first-party OAuth for GitHub, Slack, Jira, Teams, Azure DevOps and Gmail, and your own MCP servers.
Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can search the knowledge and ask the portals a scoped key allows.
Agents can serve A2A; MCP servers cover platform operations and Looker.
cloud.google.com ↗Scheduled, run-now, chained and platform-event triggers; inbound webhook triggers are not available yet.
Workflow Builder with scheduled and event triggers.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗The reviewer sees the exact pending action, such as the email about to be sent, and can edit, swap or regenerate it.
Enterprise context layer
SharePoint, Google Drive and Dropbox sync incrementally, following changes and deletions; S3 and Azure Blob are read in place.
Incremental sync every 3 hours with permission sync.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Dropped folders and archives are de-duplicated, grouped by topic and proposed as knowledge bases; duplicates merge into restorable golden records.
Snowflake Cortex Analyst and Databricks Genie: the warehouse writes and runs the SQL, and MAEQ shows it.
Native on BigQuery and Looker; Snowflake and Databricks through tools.
itbrief.news ↗Portals and end users
Branded portals for staff or customers, an embeddable website assistant, and SSO with Entra ID, Okta or any OIDC provider.
Gemini Enterprise app for staff with SSO; a branded customer portal or website widget is not documented.
docs.cloud.google.com ↗Governance, quality and cost
25 policy types (PII, prompt injection, toxicity, quotas, IP and time limits, tool-chain control), plus Lakera Guard, Bedrock Guardrails, NeMo and Guardrails AI.
A versioned registry of your MAEQ agents with auto-written description cards; other vendors' agents are not covered.
Every call with its steps and cost; export traces to your own Langfuse. LangSmith, Arize and Helicone export are coming.
Automatically built test sets, recall@k and MRR, regression checks, AI-judge groundedness, citation checks, and Comparison Lab to test models and search settings side by side.
Users rate answers with a reason; a triage console turns each complaint into a recommended fix and where to make it.
Not yet: no simulated users or task-completion graders.
The cost of every call is recorded in a credit ledger, with token, cost and invocation quotas.
Per-project spend caps, alerts and department chargeback.
techrepublic.com ↗Daily discovery of new and retiring models across four providers, and a watch on deprecation pages. Guided migration with an impact preview and rollback, started by a person.
Each client gets an isolated tenant with its own branding, data and plan; a partner console across clients is not available yet.
On the MAEQ roadmapComing soon
Intake already prepares the hand-off. Next is a model of your entities, terms and relationships, built automatically from your documents and data.
Knowledge Catalog semantic graph (preview) and the Looker semantic layer.
cloud.google.com ↗Agents already combine warehouse figures and documents in one answer. Next, MAEQ decides per question which source should answer what.
Detect conflicting figures and statements across datasets, data types and local, regional and global sources; score confidence and send low-confidence cases to a reviewer.
How this comparison is made
Every Gemini Enterprise cell is based on the vendor's own documentation, release notes or pricing pages, checked on 14 October 2026, and links to its source. If something here is out of date, email hello@maeq.com and we will correct it.
“Not documented” means we could not confirm a capability from public sources, not that it is missing. Rows in the last group are on the MAEQ roadmap and marked “Coming soon”.
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