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Top 10 AI Tools for Summarizing Articles in 2027

By Kory White · Updated Nov 2026 · 5 min read
QuillBot Summarizer
Direct answer

QuillBot Summarizer is the best AI tool for summarizing articles: it is free for up to 600 words and Premium is $8.33 a month billed annually. Readwise Reader is #2 with Ghostreader AI from $7.99 a month, and Brave Leo is #3, free inside the Brave browser. Prices are each maker’s own listed price and change over time.

At a glance

#PickPriceBest for
1QuillBot SummarizerFree $0; Premium $8.33 a month, billed annuallyA quick, free summary of an article you paste in
2Readwise Reader GhostreaderReader only $7.99 a month; Full Readwise $9.99 a month; both billed yearlyA read-later app where AI summaries sit next to your highlights
3Brave LeoFree; Leo Premium $14.99 a month or $149.99 a yearSummarizing the page you are already reading, inside the browser
4Gemini Notebook (Google)Not published on the pages we readSummarizing several articles together and asking questions across them
5Claude (Anthropic)Free $0; Pro $17 a month billed annually ($20 billed monthly); Max $100 a monthSummaries you can steer with follow-up questions
6ChatGPT (OpenAI)Free $0; Go $8; Plus $20; Pro from $100, each a monthSummarizing an article you have saved as a file or pasted in
7Microsoft Copilot in EdgeMicrosoft 365 Personal $9.99 a month; Family $12.99; Premium $19.99Edge users who want a summary of the open tab in a sidebar
8Scholarcy SummarizerFree $0 with a limit of 10 summaries; monthly plan $9.99; Scholarcy Plus $90 a yearStudents and researchers who summarize journal articles
9Recall AIFree $0; Plus $10 a month and Max $38 a month, both billed yearlySaving articles and videos into one searchable library of summaries
10GlaspFree; Pro $12.50 a month billed yearly ($15 monthly)Highlighting the web and keeping summaries with your notes

Pick by what you want

Best overall
QuillBot Summarizer
Best read-it-later app
Readwise Reader Ghostreader
Best one-click page summary
Brave Leo
Best for several articles at once
Gemini Notebook (Google)
Best for research papers
Scholarcy Summarizer

The ranking

1

QuillBot Summarizer

QuillBot Summarizer
Answrs VerdictThe most direct article summarizer, free to start.
Price: Free $0; Premium $8.33 a month, billed annuallyFree limit: Summarize up to 600 words of text for freeSummary styles: Paragraph, bullet points or a custom style, with a length sliderInput: Paste text or upload a document

QuillBot’s Summarizer condenses articles, reports or documents into the key points. You paste text or upload a document, choose paragraph, bullet points or a custom style, and set the length with a slider. It summarizes up to 600 words of text for free, and Premium is $8.33 a month billed annually.

Go ifA quick, free summary of an article you paste in
Skip ifYou want to paste a link and have the page fetched for you
Why #1 over #2: It is built only for summaries and starts free, while Readwise Reader asks for a paid plan after a trial.
2

Readwise Reader Ghostreader

Readwise Reader Ghostreader
Answrs VerdictThe best read-it-later app with built-in AI summaries.
Price: Reader only $7.99 a month; Full Readwise $9.99 a month; both billed yearlyFree trial: Readwise is free for the first 30 daysAI summaries: Ghostreader AI can summarize, explain and translate any document in ReaderPlans with Reader: Reader only and Full Readwise; Highlights Lite does not include Reader

Readwise Reader is a read-later app whose Ghostreader AI can summarize, explain and translate any document. Reader only is $7.99 a month and Full Readwise is $9.99 a month, both billed yearly, with the first 30 days free.

Go ifA read-later app where AI summaries sit next to your highlights
Skip ifYou need a free tool with no trial clock
Why #2 over #3: Its summaries live beside your saved articles, which Brave Leo’s in-browser chat does not keep.
3

Brave Leo

Brave Leo
Answrs VerdictThe easiest one-click page summary, built into the browser.
Price: Free; Leo Premium $14.99 a month or $149.99 a yearWhat it does: Ask Leo to summarize a webpage, doc or PDFAccount: No account or login is needed for free LeoFree trial: 7-day free trial on Leo Premium

Brave Leo is the AI assistant inside the Brave browser: ask it to summarize a webpage, doc or PDF. Free Leo needs no account or login, and Leo Premium is $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year with a 7-day free trial.

Go ifSummarizing the page you are already reading, inside the browser
Skip ifYou do not use the Brave browser
Why #3 over #4: It summarizes the open page with no copy and paste, which Gemini Notebook needs a source added for.
4

Gemini Notebook (Google)

Gemini Notebook (Google)
Answrs VerdictThe best for a stack of articles on one topic.
Price: Not published on the pages we readSources: Web URLs, PDFs, Google Docs, pasted text and more; up to 50 sources for Free usersSource size: Each source can contain up to 500,000 words or up to 200MB for uploaded filesSummaries: An auto-generated summary of each source in the Source Guide, plus summaries you ask for in chat

Gemini Notebook, Google’s research notebook, takes web URLs, PDFs, Google Docs and pasted text as sources. Free users get up to 50 sources, each up to 500,000 words or 200MB, and each source gets an auto-generated summary in its Source Guide. Its price is not published on the pages we read.

Go ifSummarizing several articles together and asking questions across them
Skip ifYou want one quick summary and nothing else
Why #4 over #5: It summarizes many articles together, where Claude works one conversation at a time.
5

Claude (Anthropic)

Claude (Anthropic)
Answrs VerdictA flexible chat assistant that reads a link you give it.
Price: Free $0; Pro $17 a month billed annually ($20 billed monthly); Max $100 a monthLinks: With web search toggled on, Claude can retrieve content directly from web pages when given specific URLsLong articles: A long article is retrieved whole into the context window and can use a significant portion of your usage limit, especially on free accounts

Claude can retrieve content directly from web pages when given a URL and web search is on. Anthropic warns that a long article goes into the context window whole and can use a significant share of your usage limit. Free is $0, Pro is $17 a month billed annually ($20 billed monthly) and Max is $100 a month.

Go ifSummaries you can steer with follow-up questions
Skip ifYou summarize long articles all day on a free plan
Why #5 over #6: Its follow-up questions are strong, and it reads links, which ChatGPT’s upload guide does not mention.
6

ChatGPT (OpenAI)

ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Answrs VerdictThe most familiar chat assistant, strongest on attached documents.
Price: Free $0; Go $8; Plus $20; Pro from $100, each a monthDocuments: You can ask it to summarize a research paper or another document you attachFree uploads: Limited messages with uploads on Free; expanded messages and uploads on PlusLinks: The upload guide we read does not mention pasting a link to summarize

ChatGPT lets you attach a document and ask it to summarize a research paper or another document. Free is $0, Go is $8, Plus is $20 and Pro is from $100, each a month. Free has limited messages with uploads, and Plus has expanded messages and uploads.

Go ifSummarizing an article you have saved as a file or pasted in
Skip ifYou want a tool built only for summaries
Why #6 over #7: It is the most widely used assistant, ahead of Copilot’s Edge-only sidebar.
7

Microsoft Copilot in Edge

Microsoft Copilot in Edge
Answrs VerdictA sidebar summary of the open page for Edge users.
Price: Microsoft 365 Personal $9.99 a month; Family $12.99; Premium $19.99Page summaries: Copilot Chat in Edge can use the page you are viewing for prompts such as “Summarize this document”Supported pages: Public sites such as Wikipedia and PDFs are supported; Office documents are notScope: That page covers Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business

Microsoft Copilot Chat in Edge can use the page you are viewing for prompts such as “Summarize this document”. Public sites such as Wikipedia and PDFs are supported; Office documents are not. Microsoft’s Copilot page lists Microsoft 365 Personal at $9.99 a month, Family at $12.99 and Premium at $19.99.

Go ifEdge users who want a summary of the open tab in a sidebar
Skip ifYou do not use Microsoft Edge
Why #7 over #8: It summarizes the open tab in a sidebar, where Scholarcy turns papers into flashcards.
8

Scholarcy Summarizer

Scholarcy Summarizer
Answrs VerdictThe best summarizer for research papers.
Price: Free $0 with a limit of 10 summaries; monthly plan $9.99; Scholarcy Plus $90 a yearFree trial: 1 week free trial on the monthly planPaid features: Unlimited summarization, enhanced summaries, one-click bibliographies and a Literature MatrixBuilt for: Summarizing research articles and papers into flashcards

Scholarcy summarizes research articles and papers into flashcards. Free is $0 with a limit of 10 summaries; the monthly plan is $9.99 with a 1 week free trial, and Scholarcy Plus is $90 a year with unlimited summarization, enhanced summaries and one-click bibliographies.

Go ifStudents and researchers who summarize journal articles
Skip ifYou mostly read news and blog posts
Why #8 over #9: It goes deeper on academic papers than Recall’s general library.
9

Recall AI

Recall AI
Answrs VerdictThe best for building a library from what you read.
Price: Free $0; Plus $10 a month and Max $38 a month, both billed yearlyFree plan: 10 AI summaries a monthPlus: Unlimited AI summaries of articles, YouTube videos, podcasts and PDFsMax: Bulk AI actions: summarize, tag and connect up to 100 pieces of content at once

Recall saves articles, YouTube videos, podcasts and PDFs into one library and turns them into summaries. Free is $0 with 10 AI summaries a month; Plus is $10 a month billed yearly for unlimited summaries, and Max is $38 a month with bulk actions on up to 100 pieces of content.

Go ifSaving articles and videos into one searchable library of summaries
Skip ifYou only need an occasional summary
Why #9 over #10: It keeps every summary in a searchable library, which Glasp does through highlights.
10

Glasp

Glasp
Answrs VerdictA highlighter first, with article summaries on top.
Price: Free; Pro $12.50 a month billed yearly ($15 monthly)Summaries: One-click AI summaries of articles, PDFs and YouTube videosFree plan: Unlimited highlights; PDF uploads and summaries for up to 30 filesPro: PDF uploads and summaries for up to 100 files and 500 AI chat credits a month

Glasp is a web and PDF highlighter that adds one-click AI summaries of articles, PDFs and YouTube videos. It is free, and Pro is $12.50 a month billed yearly ($15 billed monthly). The free plan covers PDF uploads and summaries for up to 30 files.

Go ifHighlighting the web and keeping summaries with your notes
Skip ifYou want a standalone summarizer with no highlighting

How we ranked these

We ranked tools that summarize an article you give them first, then tools where summaries are one feature of a bigger app, using each maker’s own published features and prices. Plan prices change, so each figure is the price shown on that maker’s page when we read it. Gemini Notebook’s price is not published on the pages we read. Facts are taken from each maker's own published information; check the official site before you buy.

Questions people ask

What is the best AI tool for summarizing articles?

QuillBot Summarizer: it is built for condensing articles into paragraph or bullet-point summaries, summarizes up to 600 words of text for free, and Premium is $8.33 a month billed annually.

Is there a free AI article summarizer?

Yes. QuillBot summarizes up to 600 words of text for free, Brave Leo is free with no account needed, Glasp has a free plan, and Recall’s Free plan includes 10 AI summaries a month.

Can AI summarize an article from a link?

Some can. Claude can retrieve content from web pages when given specific URLs with web search on, Brave Leo can summarize a webpage, and Gemini Notebook accepts web URLs as sources.

What is the cheapest paid plan on this list?

Readwise Reader only, at $7.99 a month billed yearly, with a free 30-day trial.

Monthly price of the cheapest paid plan, as each maker lists it on its own page (some billed yearly) at a glance

Readwise Reader7.99 USD
ChatGPT8 USD
QuillBot8.33 USD
Microsoft 365 Personal9.99 USD
Scholarcy9.99 USD
Recall10 USD
Glasp12.5 USD
Brave Leo Premium14.99 USD
Claude Pro17 USD
Monthly price of the cheapest paid plan, as each maker lists it on its own page (some billed yearly), as published by each maker. Picks without a published figure are left off.

Official sites

Sources

Prices, specs and availability change; confirm on the official site before you buy.

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