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Claude Opus vs NotebookLM
Compare Claude Opus vs NotebookLM: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Not available on free tier
Free, generous; Plus included with Google AI Pro
Standard plan
Max 5× — $100/mo
Google AI Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Max 20× — $200/mo
Google AI Ultra — $250/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$15.00 Best
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API output / 1M tokens
$75.00 Best
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Capability
Context window
1M
1M Best
Max output tokens
64K Best
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
82% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
81% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
88% Best
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1428 Best
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Features
Image input
✓
Partial
Voice mode
Partial
Partial
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
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Code execution
✓
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Agent / tool use
✓
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Persistent memory
✓
✓
Claude Opus
Frontier reasoning model. 5× the cost of Sonnet for ~5pt benchmark lift.
NotebookLM
Document research specialist — not a general chat assistant. Generates podcast-style "Audio Overview" from your sources. Best for grounded study and literature review.
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