Research notebook that answers questions grounded in your own uploaded sources.
NotebookLM keeps answers tied to documents you upload, with citations back to the source passage. That grounding makes it useful for study, literature review and internal research.
It also generates summaries and audio overviews from the same source set.
Students, analysts and writers researching a fixed set of documents.
Freemium
Free access with limits; higher limits included in Google's published AI plans.
Last verified: September 2026
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