# Gemini Enterprise vs Onyx (slim)

> Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) to Onyx's 65 (B) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Gemini Enterprise scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Onyx's 65 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Onyx leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do company knowledge search.

- Gemini Enterprise: B 68.1, rank #231 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.min.md
- Onyx: B 65, rank #335 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onyx.min.md
- Gemini Enterprise, 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 69; Security & auth, 87 against 71; Transparency & trust, 82 against 63. Also No incidents deducted, where Onyx loses 4 points for them.
- Onyx, good for Teams that want one permission-aware index over Slack, Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitHub and the rest, self-hosted or air-gapped, with agents searching it through MCP. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 78; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 48; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Gemini Enterprise | Onyx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 87 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gemini Enterprise | Onyx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Google | DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://cloud.onyx.app/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Cloud terms. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 | MIT (Community Edition, including the MCP server, the API server, the CLI and the connectors). Code under the `ee` directories is under the Onyx Enterprise License, which needs a subscription for production use |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 139k npm/wk, 1.2M PyPI/wk | 32k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |