# Dust vs Gemini Enterprise

> Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) to Dust's 62.8 (B) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-10

Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Dust's 62.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dust leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do company knowledge search.

- Dust: grade B, 62.8/100, rank #423 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json
- Gemini Enterprise: grade B, 68.1/100, rank #231 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-enterprise.json
- Best company knowledge search and data catalogues for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/company-knowledge/index.md
- All 73 knowledge comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/company-knowledge/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Dust (B)

Good for: A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 48
- Payments & pricing, 20 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 86 against 80

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Open source

Watch for: Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use

### Gemini Enterprise (B)

Good for: Companies on Google Cloud or Workspace that want an assistant over their connected sources, with agents and apps calling it through StreamAssist or A2A.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 85 against 53
- Security & auth, 87 against 75
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 68

Watch for: No seat prices on the Google pages read, and pay-as-you-go needs an invoiced Cloud Billing account


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Dust | Gemini Enterprise | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 85 | Gemini Enterprise +32 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 78 | Gemini Enterprise +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 48 | Dust +19 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 87 | Gemini Enterprise +12 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 10 | Dust +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 80 | Dust +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 82 | Gemini Enterprise +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.8 · B** | **68.1 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Dust | Gemini Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli` | Proprietary service under the Google Cloud terms. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | 139k npm/wk, 1.2M PyPI/wk |

## Verdicts

**Dust.** The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.

**Gemini Enterprise.** The assistant is callable through a GA v1 method with a 99.5 per cent SLA, OAuth through IAM, a public Discovery document and optional Model Armor screening. Seat prices weren't found on Google's pages, onboarding needs a billing account and a person, and some Gemini agent capabilities announced on 8 October are early access.

## Before you call either

### Dust

1. Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server
2. Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server
3. Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help
4. Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`
5. Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace

### Gemini Enterprise

1. Create a Gemini Enterprise app first. StreamAssist needs its APP_ID, and the caller needs `discoveryengine.assistants.assist`
2. Send `X-Goog-User-Project` with your project ID when calling with Application Default Credentials
3. Pass the `session` name from the final stream message on the next call to keep context. Leaving it empty starts a new session
4. Read `connectorAuthErrors` in the response. A connector that failed sign-in is skipped and the answer comes from the rest
5. Use the A2A URL returned by Agent Registry verbatim. It takes the project number, not the project ID

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Dust or Gemini Enterprise?

Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Dust's 62.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dust leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Dust and Gemini Enterprise need an API key?

Dust takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Gemini Enterprise uses an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Dust and Gemini Enterprise without installing anything?

Dust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Gemini Enterprise.

### Are Dust and Gemini Enterprise open source?

Dust is open source (MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli`). No open-source release is listed for Gemini Enterprise.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-gemini-enterprise.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-gemini-enterprise.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "dust", "b": "gemini-enterprise"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare dust gemini-enterprise`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-enterprise.json

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