Gemini Enterprise ends bundled Gemini Code Assist on March 31, 2027
Google has set a hard end date for the Gemini Code Assist entitlement that existing Gemini Enterprise subscriptions still carry. In an entry dated November 6, 2026 in the Gemini Enterprise release notes, the company said that bundled Gemini Code Assist entitlements for existing Standard and Plus subscriptions will end on March 31, 2027, after which they are removed. Until that date, Google limits support for Gemini Code Assist to the Gemini 3.x model family, which means teams that keep using the bundled assistant will not get the newer Gemini 4 generation through it.
The announcement closes a transition Google began in the autumn. Since October 9, 2026, new Gemini Enterprise subscriptions no longer include Gemini Code Assist, and on the same day Google Cloud stopped selling new standalone Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions. Google's official sunset page for the product now lists the full calendar: licenses can be added to existing standalone subscriptions until January 31, 2027, annual subscriptions can auto-renew until that same date, monthly subscriptions can auto-renew until December 31, 2027, and existing Gemini Enterprise subscriptions keep their Code Assist entitlement until March 31, 2027.
The replacement Google names in both documents is Google Antigravity, the agentic development environment that is included in Gemini Enterprise editions through a group of products Google calls AI developer tools. For an organization that bought Gemini Enterprise partly to give developers Code Assist in their IDE, the practical deadline is therefore the end of March 2027, roughly 20 weeks after the announcement, and the move involves different licenses, a different quota model and new admin settings.
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GEMINI CODE ASSIST SUNSET DATES FOR GEMINI ENTERPRISE AND STANDALONE PLANS.
Google's announcement separates two groups of customers. The first group bought Gemini Code Assist on its own, as a Standard or Enterprise subscription billed through Google Cloud. The second group received Code Assist as an entitlement inside a Gemini Enterprise Standard or Plus subscription. The November 6 entry concerns the second group, but the dates for the first group come from the same sunset page and decide how long the standalone product remains usable.
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Date | What happens | Who is affected |
September 17, 2026 | Google points customers to Antigravity for IDEs instead of Code Assist | Gemini Enterprise customers |
October 9, 2026 | New Code Assist Standard and Enterprise sales stop | New standalone buyers |
October 9, 2026 | New Gemini Enterprise subscriptions no longer include Code Assist | New Gemini Enterprise buyers |
January 31, 2027 | Last day to add licenses and last auto-renewal of annual plans | Standalone Code Assist customers |
March 31, 2027 | Bundled Code Assist entitlement ends and is removed | Existing Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus |
December 31, 2027 | Last auto-renewal of monthly plans | Standalone Code Assist customers |
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The table shows why the Gemini Enterprise date is the tightest one in practice. A company paying for standalone Code Assist on a monthly commitment can keep renewing until the end of 2027, and an annual subscriber renewing in January 2027 keeps the product for the length of that contract. A company relying on the Code Assist entitlement inside Gemini Enterprise loses it on March 31, 2027 regardless of when its Gemini Enterprise contract renews.
The model restriction applies in the meantime. Google states that support for Gemini Code Assist is limited to the Gemini 3.x family until the entitlement ends. Gemini 4 Argon, which Google enabled by default in the Gemini Enterprise web app, mobile app and AI developer tools on October 13, 2026, is available to developers through Antigravity rather than through Code Assist.
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WHAT REPLACES GEMINI CODE ASSIST INSIDE GEMINI ENTERPRISE.
Google's documentation groups the successor products under AI developer tools. They include the Google Antigravity app and the Antigravity CLI, Antigravity for IDEs (an extension for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed and Xcode), and Android Studio with Gemini features. The sunset page adds that a migration guide covers the move from Gemini CLI to the Antigravity CLI, which is relevant for teams that scripted Code Assist workflows in the terminal.
Eligibility is narrower than the Gemini Enterprise brand suggests. The editions that can use AI developer tools are Gemini Enterprise Standard, Gemini Enterprise Plus, Gemini Enterprise Standard Emerging Market (offered only to eligible customers through their Google account team) and Gemini Enterprise Pay-as-you-go. Access requires an active subscription that is not a free trial, and AI developer tools are not included in free-trial subscriptions. The Business edition, which Google advertises from $21 per seat per month, does not appear in the list of eligible editions.
Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise has also been gaining enterprise controls through the autumn. On October 6, 2026 Google let administrators decide which Antigravity features their users can reach. On October 8 it added Anthropic Claude models to Antigravity 2.0, the Antigravity CLI and Antigravity for IDEs. On October 20 it introduced the Antigravity Enterprise Gateway, which lets organizations route model inference requests from the Antigravity app through their own gateway.
Some gaps remain that compliance teams should check before migrating. Google's AI developer tools overview states that Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise does not support Access Transparency, FedRAMP Moderate and High, IL4 and IL5, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, ITAR, or SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3. An organization that relied on Code Assist inside a regulated environment needs to confirm whether those certifications are required for its developer tooling before March 2027.
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ANTIGRAVITY QUOTAS AND COSTS FOR GEMINI ENTERPRISE STANDARD AND PLUS.
The commercial model changes along with the product. Standalone Code Assist is sold as a per-user license. Google's Gemini for Google Cloud pricing page lists the fees as hourly rates billed monthly, and converting them at 730 hours a month gives the per-user amounts below. Antigravity inside Gemini Enterprise works on a credit quota attached to each licensed seat, with usage above the quota billed separately.
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Item | Standalone Code Assist | Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise |
Standard | $0.031232877/hour monthly, $0.026027397/hour annual (about $22.80 and $19.00 a month) | $10 credit per user per month |
Enterprise or Plus | $0.073972603/hour monthly, $0.061643836/hour annual (about $54.00 and $45.00 a month) | $15 credit per user per month |
Quota enforcement | Per license | Rolling 7-day shared pool across licensed seats |
Usage above quota | Not applicable | Pay-as-you-go, prepaid credits or monthly invoice |
Claude models | Not offered | Pay-as-you-go only |
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The quota rules matter for budgeting. Google enforces the monthly per-user credit as a shared pool over a rolling seven-day window: the weekly quota equals the monthly per-user value divided by four, multiplied by the project's total licensed seats, including free-trial seats. A 50-seat Gemini Enterprise Plus project therefore has a weekly pool of $187.50 (15 ÷ 4 × 50), and a 50-seat Standard project has $125. Unused quota does not roll over, and the Standard Emerging Market edition has no default quota.
Usage beyond the pool is charged at Agent Platform prices for Gemini models. Claude models in Antigravity are available only on pay-as-you-go terms, at Global rates of $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens for Claude Sonnet 5.5, with cache hits at $0.20, and $4.00 input and $20.00 output for Claude Opus 5.5, also with cache hits at $0.20. US and EU multi-region rates are 10% higher. As an illustration, a coding-agent session with 50,000 fresh input tokens, 250,000 cached input tokens and 30,000 output tokens costs about $0.45 on Claude Sonnet 5.5 and $0.85 on Claude Opus 5.5 at Global rates, before cache-write charges. A developer running ten such sessions a day over 21 working days would spend about $94.50 a month on Sonnet 5.5 or $178.50 on Opus 5.5, which is well above the per-seat quota of any edition. These are our calculations from Google's published rates, and real sessions vary widely in size.
Since November 5, 2026, self-serve Cloud Billing accounts can pay for this usage with prepaid credits, with auto-reload and an optional monthly auto-charge limit. Usage is blocked when the balance reaches zero or when a project hits its monthly spend limit. Organizations with invoiced billing accounts see the same usage on their monthly invoice. Readers comparing these terms with the consumer offer can find the individual plans in our guide to Google Antigravity pricing, free tier and limits.
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HOW GEMINI ENTERPRISE ADMINS CAN PREPARE FOR THE CODE ASSIST CUTOFF.
The first step is an inventory. Administrators should identify which developers currently use Code Assist through a Gemini Enterprise entitlement and which use a standalone Code Assist subscription, because the two groups face different deadlines. Only the first group is affected by March 31, 2027.
The second step is access. Users need the Gemini Enterprise User role (roles/discoveryengine.agentspaceUser) to use AI developer tools. Google notes that the Gemini Enterprise Admin role, which configures settings and shows metrics, does not by itself grant permission to use the tools. Administrators can build custom roles without the AI developer tools permissions to keep some users out, and can switch the tools off for the whole organization.
The third step is configuration. Google lists two known issues that affect a first rollout. Required APIs must be enabled before licenses are purchased, with about five minutes of waiting afterward, or provisioning can fail. The "Outside of file access policy" setting defaults to Deny on first configuration rather than Always ask, so administrators have to change it manually if they want developers to be prompted.
The fourth step is spending policy. Teams that plan to use Claude models in Antigravity must turn on the Pay-as-you-go usage above quota setting, because Claude usage is never covered by the seat quota. Setting a monthly spend limit per project, or an auto-charge limit on prepaid credits, keeps agent sessions from consuming budget unnoticed. Teams with scripted Gemini CLI workflows should follow Google's migration guide to the Antigravity CLI. At the end of October Google also announced that Jules, its asynchronous coding agent, shuts down on December 31, 2026 and pointed users to Antigravity, a move covered in our report on the Jules shutdown.
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GEMINI CODE ASSIST RETIREMENT: CONFIRMED DATES AND OPEN QUESTIONS.
The confirmed facts are clear and come from Google's own documentation. New Code Assist sales ended on October 9, 2026, new Gemini Enterprise subscriptions have not included Code Assist since that date, the bundled entitlement in existing Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus subscriptions ends on March 31, 2027, and Code Assist support until then covers only Gemini 3.x models. Standalone customers can add licenses and renew annual plans until January 31, 2027 and renew monthly plans until December 31, 2027.
Several points remain undocumented. Google does not say whether Code Assist Enterprise code-customization settings carry over to Antigravity, and it publishes no list prices for Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus, directing buyers to sales instead. The per-token rates Google charges for Gemini models above quota are referenced as Agent Platform prices without being restated on the quota page. Google has also not given a shutdown date for standalone Code Assist beyond the end of each customer's contract, so the last standalone subscriptions could run into 2028 depending on renewal timing.
For Gemini Enterprise customers the decision window is short. Developers who use Code Assist through the bundle have until the end of March 2027 to move to Antigravity, and teams that want Gemini 4 models in their IDE already have to make that move to get them.
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