Gemini Notebook passed my pricing test.

I pasted the link to Meta's September 15 announcement. Within ten seconds the notebook had imported the page, given it a headline Meta never wrote (A New Era of AI Subscriptions) and produced a summary that called the single-app plans "affordable" and the top plans "high-level enterprise bundles." When I reloaded the page a few minutes later, the summary had been rewritten. Now the plans ran "from $2.99 for basic plans" to "$499 for enterprise-level management." Meta's page uses none of those words. Meta says Expert and Max are for "teams managing at scale." That became the pattern. Ask it to summarize and it writes like a press release, occasionally a different press release a few minutes later. Ask it a direct question and it quotes.

• What does the Advanced plan cost and include? Starting at $49.99 a month, it said, then listed story scheduling up to 30 days ahead, links in organic posts and reels, exportable analytics, deeper audience insights, team access without sharing your password, more linked devices and WhatsApp broadcast credits. Every line carried a numbered citation back to Meta's page, and it added Meta's own fine print that pricing varies by region, app and account. That is the answer I wrote myself this week, and mine took a day.
• Does Meta One take away anything that is free today, like scheduling in Meta Business Suite? This was the trap, because the announcement never mentions Business Suite. It did not guess. "The announcement does not say whether any currently free features, such as post scheduling in Meta Business Suite, are being removed or restricted," it wrote, then quoted Meta's line that the core experience "has always been free, and that's not changing."
• If a new customer is worth $25 in profit, how many extra customers a month does Advanced need to pay for itself? It divided $49.99 by $25, told me I need 1.9996 customers, rounded up to two, and noted that customer number two leaves me a one cent net gain. That is more precise than my own spreadsheet.

The famous feature is the Audio Overview, two AI hosts talking through your document. I picked Deep Dive, set the length to Short and told it I run a small local business and want exact numbers. It had suggested a prompt of its own before I typed mine, which is a nice touch. About four minutes later I had an episode it titled "Should local shops buy Meta One Advanced?" It runs six minutes and seven seconds. On the Short setting.

I did not listen to it. The chat answered my question in ten seconds. The podcast wanted six minutes and seven seconds of my life, and I have a business to run. There is also a Brief format, one speaker in under two minutes, which is what I would pick next time. Google's help page says the audio "may contain inaccuracies or audio glitches," and the footer of every notebook says it "can be inaccurate; please double check its responses." Believe both.

The notebook is free. Google sells higher limits: Google AI Plus at $4.99 a month, Google AI Pro at $19.99 with "5x more Audio Overviews," and Google AI Ultra from $99.99. Since September 2 the limits are compute based and refresh every five hours until you hit a weekly cap. Free is standard, Plus is twice that and Pro is four times. Each source can run to 500,000 words or 200 MB with no page limit, so a lease, a supplier contract or a franchise disclosure fits. I tested on a Pro account. For one document and three questions, I would start free.

Two cautions. It imports only the text of a web page, paywalled pages are not supported, and anything hidden behind a click will come in thin; upload the PDF instead, which it accepts up to 200 MB. And it will not flag its own adjectives. The summary added "affordable" and "enterprise" with a straight face, and only the direct questions came back with quotes and citation numbers. So ask direct questions, and click the numbers.