NotebookLM

Pricing

• Gemini Notebook - free with a Google account: standard limits, up to 50 sources per notebook
• Google AI Plus - $4.99/mo: double the standard limits, up to 100 sources per notebook
• Google AI Pro - $19.99/mo: 4x the standard limits, higher access to Gemini models, up to 300 sources per notebook
• Google AI Ultra - $99.99/mo (Ultra 5x) or $199.99/mo (Ultra 20x): 5-20x the Pro limits, highest access to Gemini models, up to 600 sources per notebook
• Business and Education - via Google Workspace; Enterprise - via Google Cloud

Models

Runs on Google's Gemini models. The plans page lists access to Google's Gemini models on the free tier, higher access on Google AI Pro and the highest access on Google AI Ultra.

Recent changes

• Sep 15New study tools: real-time voice conversations with notebooks in the mobile app, a mobile audio recorder for lectures, interactive learning overviews, more quiz formats, and roughly 60-second Short Video Overviews in 80+ languages.
• Aug 28Flexible, compute-based usage limits that refresh every five hours instead of daily, with deferred generation for outputs such as Video Overviews and Slide Decks. Rolling out to consumer accounts from September 2.
• Jul 16NotebookLM is renamed Gemini Notebook. Notebooks sync with the Gemini app, and each notebook gets a secure cloud computer that can write and run code for data analysis, starting with Google AI Ultra and coming to Pro.

Sources: Gemini Notebook, Gemini Notebook plans, Google AI plans, NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, Flexible usage limits for Gemini Notebook, New Gemini Notebook study tools

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