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genei vs Long Summary

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Only Long Summary has a free tier. Only Long Summary ships a public API.

geneiSummarises PDFs and web articles into a searchable research libraryLong SummarySummarizer built for the case where the summary itself has to be long — set the output length, no input size ceiling.

Side by side

FactgeneiLong Summary
CategoryPaper Reading & SummarizationSummarization
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Public APINoYes
PlatformsWeb, Chrome ExtWeb, API
CompanyGenei LtdMB Skydis
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

genei

The app still loads and still takes payment, but the marketing site has not been republished since January 2024 and it is still selling GPT-3 as a headline feature - the team's attention clearly moved to their sister product CoLoop. Only worth a look if the GBP academic tier undercuts everything else for you; otherwise Elicit, SciSpace or NotebookLM are actively maintained and free to start.

Pros

  • Academic pricing starts well below most research assistants
  • Project structure with annotations and reference export is well suited to writing up
  • Cross-document question answering rather than one-PDF-at-a-time
  • Browser extension captures sources without leaving the page

Cons

  • Site content and copyright notice are years stale, and GPT-3 is still the advertised model
  • No free tier, only a trial that requires a card
  • No API and no mobile app
  • Priced in GBP, so USD buyers absorb the exchange rate

Long Summary

Every other summarizer optimises for brevity; this one lets you dictate the output length, which is the correct tool when you need a twenty-page digest of a report rather than five bullets. The API framing as a substitute for retrieval — summarise the corpus, then feed the summary as context — is a genuinely useful pattern. The problem is commercial opacity: no plan table exists anywhere on the public site.

Pros

  • Output length is a parameter you set, not a fixed style
  • Handles file uploads and inputs described as millions of characters
  • Public developer API for automating the whole thing
  • Named legal operator with terms and a stated deletion-after-processing policy

Cons

  • No public pricing at all — /pricing 404s and /plans renders nothing
  • Long output means long generation time and higher token cost per run
  • One of several thin sites from the same operator, which raises maintenance questions

Which one fits

Choose genei if you need

  • Students on the discounted academic tier doing literature triage
  • Anyone who wants summaries plus auto-generated references in one place
  • Reading-heavy workflows where a browser extension to capture sources matters

Choose Long Summary if you need

  • Condensing long reports without dropping detail
  • Developers wanting summarised context instead of a RAG pipeline
  • Legal and academic reading where nuance matters more than brevity

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