What is Gemini Notebook Enterprise?

Gemini Notebook Enterprise is a highly compliant, enterprise-ready version of Gemini Notebook.

Gemini Notebook is an AI-powered research and writing tool that helps you summarize and extract information across dense and complex sources. You do this by adding data sources, such as PDFs, Google Docs, Google Slides, and website URLs, to build a notebook. The AI grounds its responses in these documents.

The base functionality lets you add these sources and interact with the content to query, chat, or generate summaries.

While popular for personal use, the personal Gemini Notebook product lacks the compliance and administrative features necessary for enterprise environments. Gemini Notebook Enterprise shares key features with Gemini Notebook but is fortified with enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Enterprise grade for notebooks

Gemini Notebook Enterprise runs in a Cloud-compliant environment. Your data is always within your Google Cloud project and can't be shared externally.

Documents uploaded to a notebook within Gemini Notebook Enterprise are ingested into the Google Cloud environment and are subject to Google Cloud Terms of Service. This also applies to documents that have been uploaded to a notebook from Google Drive.

Limitations on Microsoft Excel Workbook documents

Microsoft Excel Workbook documents uploaded to a Gemini Notebook Enterprise notebook have the following limitations:

  • Within the general source size limits, Gemini Notebook Enterprise can process about 150,000 active cells in a single sheet. If your data is organized compactly, you might be able to upload a document with sheets containing a larger number of active cells.

  • If a document contains multiple sheets, each sheet is processed separately.

  • A single document must be less than 500 MB or 500,000 words. This is the general source size limits; see Usage limits.

  • When processing XLSX files, Gemini Notebook Enterprise converts the content, including table structures and formatting, into an intermediate format to preserve the layout for analysis. This conversion process adds characters to represent the structure (for example, cell boundaries and rows). These additional characters are included in the total word count. As a result, an XLSX file with a visible word count less than 500,000 can still exceed the limit because of these added characters. For files with complex formatting or many cells, you might see a larger difference between the apparent word count and the system's calculated word count.

Usage limits

Limits for Gemini Notebook Enterprise are shown in the following table.

Feature or size Limit
Notebooks 500 per user
Sources 300 per notebook
Source sizes 500 MB or 500,000 words per source
Queries 500 per user per day
YouTube video transcript sizes 500,000 words per transcript
Audio overviews 20 per user per day
Video overviews 20 per user per day
Mind maps 20 per user per day
Reports 20 per user per day
Slide decks 15 per user per day
Infographics 15 per user per day

Differences between Gemini Notebook and Gemini Notebook Enterprise

Some key differences between the personal Gemini Notebook product, which is available to people with Google Accounts, and Gemini Notebook Enterprise are outlined in the following table:

Gemini Notebook Gemini Notebook Enterprise
Data residency Users can't specify Data stays in your Google Cloud project.

For more information on the available locations, see Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus Editions data residency and ML regional processing commitments, and Gemini Notebook Enterprise data residency commitments.
Sources
  • Google Docs and Slides
  • Copied text
  • Public URLs
  • YouTube video
  • PDFs
  • TXT
  • Markdown
  • Audio files
  • Image files

When a source is uploaded or imported to Gemini Notebook, a static copy of the document is created for analysis. Gemini Notebook does not make changes to the original file. Therefore, when you use Gemini Notebook, the model relies on the static copy of the uploaded sources to answer your questions and fulfill your requests.

  • Google Docs and Slides
  • Copied text
  • Public URLs
  • YouTube video
  • PDFs
  • TXT
  • Markdown
  • Audio files
  • Image files
  • DOCX (Microsoft Word file type)
  • PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint file type)
  • XLSX (Microsoft Excel file type)

When a source is uploaded or imported to Gemini Notebook Enterprise, a static copy of the document is created for analysis. Gemini Notebook Enterprise does not make changes to the original file. Therefore, when you use Gemini Notebook Enterprise, the model relies on the static copy of the uploaded sources to answer your questions and fulfill your requests.

Usage limits See Gemini Notebook Help The same or greater than those for Gemini Notebook (see Usage limits)
Authentication Through a personal Google Account Through one of the following:
  • Cloud Identity
  • A third-party identity provider (IdP), such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping, PingFederate, or another OIDC or SAML 2.0 identity provider.
Interface https://notebook.google.com https://notebook.cloud.google.com/REGION/?project=PROJECT_NUMBER
Administrators configure this project- and region-specific URL for their users through the Google Cloud console.
Sharing Notebooks are private to a user. Notebooks can be shared with viewer or editor permissions; either publicly or by email links with other users. Notebooks are private to the user. They can only be shared to other users within the same Google Cloud project. When you share a notebook, the users who you shared it with can always see the sources.

Predefined IAM roles let users share notebooks with others and grant viewer or editor permissions.

Notebooks can't be shared publicly.
Compliance N/A
Audio sharing Audio summaries can be shared through a link. Audio summaries are separate from the rest of the notebook. When users get access to the notebook, they get access to the audio summaries too; audio summaries can't be shared separately.

Separate administrator and user interfaces

There are two interfaces for Gemini Notebook Enterprise:

  • Admin interface: Administrators use the project's Google Cloud console UI to enable the Gemini Notebook capability and set up users authentication and authorization. Users with the Cloud Gemini Notebook Owner role can access the admin interface.

  • User interface: Your end users create and manage their notebooks through a UI that looks and behaves very much like the personal Gemini Notebook UI. The URL for the interface is unique for each project and must be distributed to users by the administrator.

User roles

There are five Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles predefined for Gemini Notebook Enterprise:

Two roles are related to accessing Gemini Notebook Enterprise:

  • Cloud Gemini Notebook Admin: Users with this role can configure identity settings, give users in a project access to Gemini Notebook Enterprise, and receive the URL for the user interface for sharing with end users.

  • Cloud Gemini Notebook User: Users with this role can sign in to the user interface and create notebooks. Users must be granted this role in order to access Gemini Notebook Enterprise.

The remaining three roles are the Cloud Gemini Notebook Notebook roles (Owner, Editor, and Viewer). Don't assign these roles through the admin interface. These roles get automatically assigned through the user interface, for example, when a user creates a notebook or shares a notebook with another user.

About data access, storage, and lifecycle

When your users add source data to a notebook, the data is stored in your project in the US or EU multi-region. Only Gemini Notebook Enterprise can access the data; that is, the data can't be accessed through any other Google Cloud service (such as Cloud Storage).

When your users delete a notebook, the data is deleted along with the notebook. Similarly, when you delete the project, all the data is deleted.

You can enable Gemini Notebook Enterprise as a data source in Gemini Enterprise. This lets your users use Gemini Enterprise to search for their notebooks by title.

For more information about this Public Preview feature, see Enable Gemini Notebook Enterprise as a search source.

Gemini Notebook Enterprise availability

You can purchase Gemini Notebook Enterprise as a standalone product or as part of Gemini Enterprise.

Gemini Enterprise is a parent product that includes both Gemini Notebook Enterprise and Gemini Enterprise (editions).

Notebooks are accessible from both Gemini Notebook Enterprise and Gemini Enterprise apps if they share the same project and location.