Humata vs Gemini Notebook

Humata

• Asking questions across many long PDFs and getting cited answers
• Small teams of up to three people sharing one $9.99 plan
• Companies that want to embed document Q&A on their own website

Gemini Notebook

• Students and researchers working from a set of their own documents
• Turning long documents or lecture material into audio summaries
• Answers that cite the source passage they came from

Humata

• The Free plan is limited to 1 user and 60 pages a month, and the homepage also caps it at 10 answers.
• Pages beyond a plan's monthly allowance are billed per page: $0.02 on Expert and $0.01 on Team.
• OCR for scanned text, department and folder permissions and response personalization need the Team plan.
• The billing FAQ mentions a Student plan, but the pricing page does not list it or show a price.

Gemini Notebook

• Paid tiers are not sold on their own: higher limits come with a Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra subscription.
• The free Standard tier allows 100 notebooks and 50 sources per notebook.
• Usage limits are compute-based. The quota refreshes every 5 hours until a weekly limit is reached.
• The mobile app cannot yet generate or view notes, mind maps, reports or data tables.

Humata

Chat with your files

Upload files or whole folders and ask questions about them. Each answer cites the relevant sections of the source documents, with highlighted links back into the file.

Ask All across files

Tick several files or a folder and use Ask All to put one question to all of them at once, for example to compare documents.

Website import

The From URL option in the upload dialog imports a website so that questions can be asked about its pages.

Answer modes and custom prompts

Grounded, Balanced and Creative modes set how closely answers stick to the documents, and a custom prompt can be sent along with every question.

Team roles and permissions

Admins invite members, assign admin or member roles, group people into teams and restrict access to folders. Department and folder permissions start at the Team plan.

Embeds and API

A chat view for a file or folder can be embedded in a web page, with white labeling on Enterprise. An API covers document import, conversations and questions.

Gemini Notebook

Grounded chat with citations

Chat with a notebook to get answers based on the sources you added, with in-line citations that point back to them.

Many source types

Add PDFs, Google Docs, Slides and Sheets, Word and PowerPoint files, web URLs, public YouTube videos, audio files and images. A source can hold up to 500,000 words or 200 MB.

Audio and Video Overviews

Turns a notebook's sources into an Audio Overview or a Video Overview. In the mobile app, Audio Overviews can be downloaded for offline listening.

Study and presentation outputs

Generates mind maps, reports, flashcards, quizzes, infographics and slide decks from your sources.

Deep Research

An agentic feature that browses up to hundreds of websites, writes a multi-page report and lets you import the results and sources into a notebook.

Mobile apps

Apps for Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad. Share a website, PDF or YouTube video from another app straight into a notebook.

Humata

• Free$0

  1 user and 60 free pages a month, with basic features and up to 10 answers.

• Expert$9.99

  per month, billed monthly

  Up to 3 users and 500 free pages a month, then $0.02 per additional page, with chat support.

• Team$49

  per user / month, billed monthly

  For teams of up to 10: 5,000 free pages a month, then $0.01 per page, plus department and folder permissions, OCR and response personalization.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited users and custom page allowances, with a SOC-2 certificate, uptime SLA and early access to new features.

Gemini Notebook

• Standard$0

  Free with a Google account: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits.

• Plus$4.99

  per month, with Google AI Plus

  200 notebooks, 100 sources per notebook and usage limits two times higher than standard.

• Pro$19.99

  per month, with Google AI Pro

  500 notebooks, 300 sources per notebook and usage limits four times higher than standard.

• UltraFrom $99.99

  per month, with Google AI Ultra

  500 notebooks, 500 or 600 sources per notebook depending on the Ultra tier, and usage limits 5x or 20x higher than AI Pro.

Humata

No public discounts listed.

Gemini Notebook

• Education

  Free Pro plan for college students for a year

  Google's US subscriptions page says college students get a free Google AI Pro plan for one year. Google AI Pro provides the Pro tier of Gemini Notebook.