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NotebookLM vs Qwen
Compare NotebookLM vs Qwen: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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notebooklm.google.com ↗ Qwen
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Free tier
Free, generous; Plus included with Google AI Pro
Generous free tier in consumer app
Standard plan
Google AI Pro — $20/mo
Plus — API only
Top plan
Google AI Ultra — $250/mo
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
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$0.40 Best
API output / 1M tokens
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$1.20 Best
Capability
Context window
1M Best
256K
Max output tokens
8K
8K Best
Knowledge cutoff
Live (web)
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
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72% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
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85% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
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74% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
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1370 Best
Features
Image input
Partial
✓
Voice mode
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
✓
✓
NotebookLM
Document research specialist — not a general chat assistant. Generates podcast-style "Audio Overview" from your sources. Best for grounded study and literature review.
Qwen
Frontier-tier benchmarks at the lowest API cost in the high-quality tier. Open weights for Qwen 3-235B (Apache 2.0). Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations.
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