Alternatives

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) alternatives

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM): Upload your own documents and ask questions that are answered from them, with references back to the source. Its price when we checked: Free with a Google account. Higher limits come with Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra plans or qualifying Workspace plans. If it isn't right for you, these tools do a similar job.

Prices at a glance

Tool	Cheapest paid plan	Free plan
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)	Not published	Yes
Notion	$10 (Plus, per seat a month)	Yes
Claude	$20 (Pro, per month)	Yes
ChatGPT	Not published	Yes

Our verdict

Free plans: Notion, Claude, ChatGPT. Cheapest dollar-priced entry plan: Notion at $10 (Plus, per seat a month). Choose by the job you need doing: each entry says who it suits best.

Notion

Notes, documents, task lists and simple databases in one place, with Notion AI.

Price: Free: $0. Plus: $10 per seat a month. Business: $20 per seat a month. Custom AI agents: $10 per 1,000 monthly credits after a free try.
Free plan: Yes. A free plan with the essentials for staying organised.
Best for: Keeping procedures, client notes and to-do lists in one shared place.

Claude

An AI assistant that is good with long documents, careful writing and summaries.

Price: Free plan: $0. Pro: $20 a month or $200 a year. Max: $100 or $200 a month.
Free plan: Yes. Chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation, code, memory and Artifacts. Usage limits reset on a rolling five-hour window, with no fixed message count.
Best for: Reading contracts, tenders and policies and turning them into plain-English summaries; longer written drafts.

ChatGPT

A general AI assistant for drafting emails, quotes, policies and posts, summarising documents and answering questions.

Price: Free plan available. Paid plans (Go, Plus, Business, Enterprise) are priced per user per month; see the pricing page for current amounts.
Free plan: Yes. Unlimited everyday text chats, subject to abuse safeguards. Web search, file and image uploads, data analysis, image creation and 500 MB Library storage, each with its own usage limits. Ads may appear on the free plan in some countries.
Best for: Day-to-day drafting: customer replies, quotes, job adverts, social posts and summaries.

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