genei vs Long Summary

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

Does genei or Long Summary have a free tier?

Long Summary has a free tier; genei has paid plans only.

Which has a public API, genei or Long Summary?

Long Summary ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for genei is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.