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TaglineThe one that actually gets text in images right.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.Google's research notebook. Turns your docs into a podcast.
Categoryimageresearchcodingresearch
PricingFree + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/moFree + $20/mo ProFree + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo BusinessFree
Best forAnything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.Students, researchers, anyone with a stack of PDFs or a topic to learn.
Strengths
  • Best text rendering in the game
  • Strong free tier
  • Good for logos, posters, thumbnails
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Tab completion feels like mind-reading
  • Composer for multi-file edits
  • Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick
  • Upload anything, ask questions, get cited answers
  • Audio Overview turns docs into a 10-min podcast
  • Great for studying
Weaknesses
  • Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney
  • Less style variety
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Can feel overwhelming for non-coders
  • Expensive at scale
  • Google-only
  • Can be slow on large corpora
Kai's verdictS-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.S-tier for study. The Audio Overview is a killer feature. Try it with three of your favorite PDFs.
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