Gemini Notebook
Formerly NotebookLM
Collect research sources in a notebook, ask questions grounded in them, and reshape the material into study aids or downloadable outputs.
Sources checked 3 October 2026.
PlansFree; from $4.99/mo US monthly Google AI prices
- Free
- Free
- Standard compute-based AI limits; source limits also apply.
- Google AI Plus
- $4.99/month
- US monthly price; higher Notebook AI limits.
- Google AI Pro
- $19.99/month
- US monthly pricing; four times standard Notebook AI limits.
- Google AI Ultra
- From $99.99/month
- US monthly options: $99.99 for 5x Pro usage or $199.99 for 20x.
Free source-based chat allows up to 50 sources; paid plans raise AI limits.
Ultra is $99.99/month for 5x Pro usage or $199.99/month for 20x.
View current plans (opens in a new tab)AI & setupAI includedGoogle account
Work and school administrators control access; some features require age 18 or over.
Where it worksWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb and mobile apps
Available on web, iOS, and Android; mobile features can differ from web.
Usage & termsSource and compute limitsA source can be up to 500,000 words or 200 MB
AI limits use a compute budget that refreshes every five hours until a weekly cap is reached.
Imported Drive documents omit footnotes and comments; YouTube imports use captions.
Follow an answer back to the passage
Select the sources a conversation should use, then open its citations to review the quoted text in context. Saved responses retain their tables and clickable references as notes.
This keeps research notes connected to the underlying material. Ordinary source-based chat uses your sources; the newer agentic chat mode can also search beyond them, so the mode matters when checking where an answer came from.
Build one shelf from different kinds of material
Supported inputs include Word, PDF, EPUB, Markdown, audio, images, websites, public captioned YouTube videos and eligible purchased Play Books ebooks. Drive sources can sync as the original changes.
Import behavior matters: a YouTube source is its transcript, Drive footnotes and comments are omitted, and access to a Drive file must remain available. The documented free limit is 50 sources, with a 500,000-word or 200 MB ceiling per upload.
Source handling and AI allowances
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Reshape the material into useful reference formats
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Studio turns sources into briefings, study guides, mind maps, Audio Overviews and other formats. These provide several ways to review the same material without creating a separate collection.
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Create downloadable research outputs
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Experimental agentic chat can run code and create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, charts and structured data. It can revise artifacts as versions and expose thinking steps.
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Keep notebooks available across Google’s tools
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Google’s rename announcement describes cross-app syncing with notebooks in Gemini while the research product remains standalone.
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Use a visible AI budget
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Notebook shows remaining AI usage and expected Studio generation cost. Web users who exhaust the current allowance can request a later generation or move to a plan with higher limits.
Feature details & official sources
Purpose and capability information checked 3 October 2026.
Platform and pricing reference: 24 October 2026.
Recorded requirements and limits
- A signed-in Google account in a supported territory is required; work or school administrators control access. Some features require age 18 or over.
- Standard source-based chat answers use the selected source material; experimental agentic chat can also search the web and work without supplied sources.
- The source guide documents up to 50 sources for free users and up to 500,000 words or 200 MB per uploaded source. Imported Drive documents omit footnotes and comments; YouTube imports use captions.
- AI limits are compute based, refresh every five hours until a weekly cap is reached, and vary by plan. Mobile features can differ from the web experience.
- Gemini Notebook is the current name of the standalone product formerly called NotebookLM.
- Official product documentation (opens in a new tab)
- Official name-change announcement (opens in a new tab)
- Official product homepage (opens in a new tab)
- Official feature documentation (opens in a new tab)
- Official feature documentation (opens in a new tab)
- Official feature documentation (opens in a new tab)
- Current US Google AI subscription prices (opens in a new tab)
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