# genei review (2026): is it worth £3.99 a month, billed yearly? > Summarizes PDFs and web pages and keeps research organized Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. genei is a research tool that summarizes background reading, extracts keywords and lets you ask questions of uploaded PDFs and web pages. Documents live in projects and folders with notes and automatic references. Plans are priced in pounds, with a discount for academics. - **Category:** AI Research Tools - **Made by:** genei - **Website:** https://www.genei.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, as there's only a 14-day trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, genei is a paid product with a free trial, starting at £3.99 per month, billed annually (Academic Basic). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | £9.99 per month (£7.99 billed annually) | Summaries, keywords, notes, reference generation; files up to 5 GB. | | Pro | £29.99 per month (£24.99 billed annually) | Adds multi-document analysis, AI expand and paraphrase, and GPT-3 search and questions. | | Academic Basic | £4.99 per month (£3.99 billed annually) | Basic features at the academic discount. | | Academic Pro | £19.99 per month (£15.99 billed annually) | Pro features at the academic discount. | Read from https://www.genei.io/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with genei before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Academic pricing at 40% off** (Education): The pricing page has an Academic tab with Basic and Pro plans labeled as a 40% discount. Source: https://www.genei.io/pricing ## Key features - **AI summaries:** Summarizes documents and web pages and extracts keywords to speed up background reading. - **Question mode:** Ask questions and have the AI find answers across your documents; GPT-3 search is on Pro. - **Projects and folders:** Store documents in customizable projects with unlimited resources on both plan tiers. - **Notes and references:** Cloud notes and annotations, note linking and automatic reference generation. - **Multidocument analysis:** Pro analyzes several documents together. - **Figure and table extraction:** Pulls graphs, figures and tables out of documents. ## Good for - Writers and students working through long reading lists - Academics who qualify for the discounted tier ## Worth knowing - Prices are shown in pounds sterling. - Multidocument analysis and AI paraphrasing are Pro only. - The homepage promotes a separate qualitative analysis tool, CoLoop. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. genei summarizes PDFs and web pages and keeps your notes and references organized, and the academic Basic plan is £3.99 a month billed yearly. But everything is in pounds, there's no free plan, and multi-document analysis and paraphrasing sit on Pro. - **Value for money: C.** Basic is £7.99 a month billed yearly (£9.99 monthly), about the category's $10 middle. Pro is £24.99. The academic discount drops Basic to £3.99, but only for those who qualify. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, just a 14-day trial. The listing does not say whether a card is needed. - **Features: C.** Summaries, questions, folders, notes, references and figure extraction. The listing shows multi-document analysis and AI paraphrasing as Pro-only. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You set up projects and folders before the notes pile up usefully. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps or integrations listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from genei's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI research tools - genei's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 3 of the 49 other AI research tools we grade, and level with 3. - Its paid plans start at about $5.35 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 2 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-research ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace genei you would be making a library of papers and sources to search. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 43 of the 49 other AI research tools grade higher. It costs $64.15 a year. - You could make: Notes and documents: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. - You could not: Citation records for millions of papers. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** AI features, Research, Citations, Notes, Documents ## Alternatives - [Scholarcy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scholarcy): Summarizes research papers into interactive flashcards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/genei-vs-scholarcy) - [Paperguide](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paperguide): AI research platform for literature and systematic reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/genei-vs-paperguide) - [SciSpace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scispace): AI research platform for literature review and reading papers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/genei-vs-scispace) - [ChatPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatpdf): Ask questions about PDFs and get answers with citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatpdf-vs-genei) - [Humata](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humata): Document Q&A with cited answers across your uploaded files. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/genei-vs-humata) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.genei.io/ - https://www.genei.io/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/genei Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).