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Google Vertex AI Search

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Spec sheet

Purpose
Agent Search, formerly Vertex AI Search, builds AI-enabled search and recommendation experiences for public websites and mobile applications.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Integrations
The custom search documentation describes ingestion through Cloud Storage and BigQuery or through the REST API.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Support
The documentation page links to Google Cloud Support, community forums, release notes, and system status.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Data coverage
It supports search and retrieval-augmented generation across websites, unstructured documents, and structured data.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Data sources
Supported sources include websites, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Sites, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Document processing
Its parsers handle unstructured formats such as PDF, HTML, and TXT, and its search widget can be embedded in websites.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Free trial limit
The pricing page offers 10,000 queries per account per month at no cost to explore Agent Search, excluding Advanced Generative Answers.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Generative answers
It can generate answers grounded in indexed data with citations and support follow-up questions.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Industry use cases
Google describes specialized tuning for commerce catalogs, media libraries, and clinical data repositories.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Pricing models
Search applications and associated data stores use either general pay-as-you-go pricing or configurable monthly subscription pricing, and a configurable data store can only be used by an app on configurable pricing.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Search features
Out-of-the-box capabilities include natural-language understanding, semantic search, synonym understanding, spell correction, and auto-suggest.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Security and compliance
Google Cloud publishes compliance mappings and reports and states that it undergoes independent verification for certifications, attestations, and audit reports.Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com

Plans and prices

Search Standard Edition $1.50 a month $1.50 / 1,000 query Semantic retrieval and KPI optimization · 10,000 queries per account per month at no cost during free trial Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Advanced Generative Answers (AI Mode) $4 a month +$4.00 / 1,000 user input query Can be added to Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition · Excluded from free trial Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Search Enterprise Edition $4 a month $4.00 / 1,000 query Core Generative Answers included · 10,000 queries per account per month at no cost during free trial Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com

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