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Gemini Notebook vs Elicit
Gemini Notebook scores higher overall (8.8 vs 7.8), but the right pick depends on what you need.
Choose Gemini Notebook if…
Students and researchers who already have their sources and want to understand, question and summarise them
8.8/10★★★★★Full review →Choose Elicit if…
Researchers running systematic reviews or extracting data across many studies
7.8/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| Gemini Notebook | Elicit | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.8/10 | 7.8/10 |
| Rank in category | #1 of 10 | #5 of 10 |
| Price | Freemium · from $4.99/month | Freemium · from $49/month |
| Free version | 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits | Unlimited search, paper summaries and chat with papers; limited Research Agent and reports |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, API |
| Made by | Elicit | |
| Research quality | 9 | 8.5 |
| Ease of use | 9 | 7.5 |
| Features | 7 | 9 |
| Value for money | 9.5 | 6.5 |
| Platforms | 9.5 | 6 |
Gemini Notebook: what the AI does
- Answers grounded only in your sources, with clickable citations
- Audio Overviews and Video Overviews
- Reports, quizzes, flashcards and slide decks from your sources
- Code execution for data analysis on uploaded data
- Notebooks synced with the Gemini app
- Low hallucination risk because answers come only from your sources
- Citations jump straight to the quoted passage
- Generous free plan and very cheap paid entry
- Turns the same sources into audio, video and study formats
- Not a discovery tool: you have to collect the sources first
- Slide-deck revisions don't consult your sources, per one review
- Usage is now compute-based, so it's hard to predict how much you get
Elicit: what the AI does
- Semantic search over 138M+ papers and clinical trials
- Research Agent that writes cited reports
- Data extraction into tables
- Systematic review screening (up to 5,000 papers on Pro)
- Chat with full-text papers
- Purpose-built systematic-review workflow
- Strong data extraction from papers into tables
- Sentence-level citations to real papers
- Free plan includes unlimited search and summaries
- Pro at $49/month is expensive for students
- Real systematic-review features need a paid plan
- Little help with writing up the research