ChatGPT Deep Research vs Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) vs Perplexity Spaces vs Tencent ima.copilot 腾讯ima
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
ChatGPT Deep Research
OpenAI's cited, multi-step research agent inside ChatGPT
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Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Source-grounded research notebook with podcast-style summaries
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Perplexity Spaces
Perplexity's shared folders for recurring research projects
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Tencent ima.copilot 腾讯ima
Tencent's research-notebook AI assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 6.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium | Subscription | Free |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Free (Standard) tier; paid access bundled into Google AI subscriptions — Plus ~$7.99/mo | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Reported in the millions of monthly active users in 2026 | — | — |
| Founded | 2025 | 2023 | 2024 | 2024 |
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| Verdict | Deep Research is the most consequential agent mode ChatGPT ships: point it at a genuinely open-ended question and it will spend anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes autonomously browsing, reading, and cross-checking dozens of s... |
NotebookLM has a genuinely distinct shape among AI tools: it answers from the sources you upload, with inline citations, which keeps hallucination noticeably lower than open-ended chatbots. Audio Overviews — two AI hosts... |
Spaces solve a real problem with chat-based research tools: without them, every Perplexity thread is an island, and repeating context for a running project gets old fast. A Space bundles the threads, uploaded files (up t... |
ima.copilot is Tencent's AI knowledge-management workbench, powered by Hunyuan and DeepSeek, that combines web-wide search, document parsing, RAG-based Q&A over a personal knowledge base, and content generation into... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.