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Gemini Notebook vs Semantic Scholar
Gemini Notebook scores higher overall (8.8 vs 7.5), 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 Semantic Scholar if…
Anyone who wants a free, reliable academic search engine
7.5/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| Gemini Notebook | Semantic Scholar | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.8/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Rank in category | #1 of 10 | #7 of 10 |
| Price | Freemium · from $4.99/month | Free |
| Free version | 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits | Everything is free |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, API |
| Made by | Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) | |
| Research quality | 9 | 7 |
| Ease of use | 9 | 8 |
| Features | 7 | 5.5 |
| Value for money | 9.5 | 10 |
| Platforms | 9.5 | 6.5 |
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
Semantic Scholar: what the AI does
- AI-generated TLDR summaries
- Personalised Research Feeds
- Semantic Reader augmented PDF reader (beta)
- Influence-weighted citation ranking
- Open Academic Graph API
- Completely free with no hidden tiers
- Huge index of over 200 million papers
- TLDRs make skimming results fast
- No writing, synthesis or report features
- Semantic Reader still covers only part of the literature