Sidenote vs SummarizeBot
Sidenote
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| Figure | Sidenote | SummarizeBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | £1.20/mo | $179/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · AI Summarizers | 7.9 (#17) | 8.5 (#8) |
| Integrations | Dedicated integrations include Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, Slack canvases, SharePoint, and OneDrive. | The FAQ says users can use the bot through Facebook Messenger and Slack, and summarize shared files from Google Drive and Dropbox. |
| Privacy | The maker says user content is never used to train AI models and its AI providers use no-training defaults on the API tiers used. | The terms state that SummarizeBot does not train its AI models on user or client data, including data submitted to free services. |
| What it does | Sidenote is an AI reading assistant that answers questions about documents in the browser and shows where each answer came from. | SummarizeBot extracts and structures information from text, documents, images, audio and other multimedia. |
Plans
Sidenote
- FreeFree
- Pro£10 a month
- Team (annual billing)£14.40 a year
- Team£18 a month
- Pro+£20 a month
- Pro Max£100 a month
In their own words
Sidenote
Sidenote is a browser-based AI reading assistant for asking questions about documents and tracing answers back to their source passages. Select a citation to jump to and highlight the cited text. It can summarize and explain documents, build glossaries, search files, and organize material with notes, highlights, tags, starred documents, and multi-document collections. It reads browser-rendered PDFs, including scanned PDFs with OCR, and accepts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, MD, MDX, and RTF uploads. Dedicated integrations include Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, Slack canvases, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Extensions are listed for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox; Opera is coming soon. The free plan allows 3 documents per month, while Pro is £10/mo billed monthly. A 7-day Pro trial requires no card and limits users to 10 documents, 20 summaries, and 10 chat turns. Users can choose to keep documents while their account is open or discard them, which purges a document within 24 hours. Sidenote says content is not used to train AI models, but it is not yet SOC 2 certified.
SummarizeBot
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