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GoogleProduct change · Positioning · May 18 → May 25, 2026

Google Cloud renames Vertex AI Search to Agent Search for commerce

Verified May 26, 2026Cloud & DevOpsDirection: neutral
The changeVertex AI Search for commerce — reworded.
Before · May 18Vertex AI Search for commerce
After · May 25Agent Search for commerce
reworded
1 change2 capturesMay 18, 2026 → May 25, 2026

What happened

Between the May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026 captures of Google's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Product renamed from 'Vertex AI Search for commerce' to 'Agent Search for commerce' throughout the pricing page, including page title, body text, documentation links, and Observability section. Pulse files it as a product change (positioning) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Jun 29, 2026) lists AI Commerce Search - Recommendations at $0.18 per 1,000 predictions (next 280M/month) + $2.5 per node per hour (training and tuning) and AI Commerce Search - Search at $2.5 per 1,000 search/browse queries + $6 per 1,000 conversational product filtering queries.

This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Google. Google has been tracked since 2025-12-20.

In the same window Metabase, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.

  • — · PositioningReworded

    BeforeVertex AI Search for commerce

    AfterAgent Search for commerce

Values as written on Google's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.

Evidence

The two captures Pulse compared

Full-page captures of Google's pricing page (cloud.google.com) from May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where "Vertex AI Search for commerce" becomes "Agent Search for commerce".

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Google, pricing history

Full history
  1. Jul 3, 2026packagingGoogle Cloud: AI Commerce Search pricing revealed ($2.50-$6.00/1000 queries)
  2. Jun 8, 2026packagingGoogle Cloud reveals AI Commerce Search pricing at $2.50/1K
  3. May 26, 2026packagingGoogle Cloud renames Vertex AI Search to Agent Search for commerce · this change

Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window

All Cloud & DevOps changes
  1. MetabaseMay 27Metabase swaps caching controls for AI governance in Pro plan
  2. AnthropicMay 13Anthropic API consolidates Microsoft 365 and Outlook integrations
  3. OpenAIMay 11OpenAI API raises GPT-Realtime-2 text output 50%, adds translate
  4. MicrosoftMay 5Microsoft Dynamics365 swaps Record updates for prebuilt Sales Close Agent

Questions about this change

Did Google raise prices in May 2026?

No list-price increase was recorded between May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: positioning.

What changed on Google's pricing page between May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026?

Positioning: Vertex AI Search for commerce → Agent Search for commerce, reworded. Pulse compared the captures it took on May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.

How often does Google change its pricing?

Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Google in the 90 days before this one; Google has been tracked since 2025-12-20.