Jul 19, 2026

Surfsense

Open Source alternative to NotebookLM for teams.
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Overview
What is Surfsense?

SurfSense is a highly customizable AI research agent, connected to external sources such as search engines, Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Jira, ClickUp, Confluence, BookStack, Gmail, Notion, YouTube, GitHub, Discord, Airtable, Google Calendar, Luma, Circleback, Elasticsearch, Obsidian, and more to come. With

Open Source alternative to NotebookLM for teams.

Core Features
Report generation and exports
Knowledgebase search and citation
Podcast generation
Image generation
Real-time collaborative group chats with your team members
Long Document Q&A
Popular Use Cases
  • Report generations with build in exports of PDF & DOCX and more to come
  • Real-time collaborative group chats with your team members to move fast
  • Multimedia artifacts support podcasts and image generation, with slides and videos to come soon.
  • Access to shared team context so you don't have to wait for your team members to respond.
  • Self-hostable and open source for privacy-focused individuals
  • Connects with more than 20 external connectors and services. SurfSense Reddit Here is the SurfSense Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfSense/ SurfSense
How to use
  • 1. Go to https://www.surfsense.com and log in. 2. Connect your connectors and sync. Enable periodic syncing to keep connectors synced. 3. While connector data is indexing
  • upload documents. 4. Once everything is indexed
  • ask away (use cases): - Basic search and citation - Report generation and exports (PDF
  • DOCX for now) - Podcast generation - Image generation - Real-time collaborative group chats with your team members - Long Document Q&A - All use cases at https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense#how-to-use-surfsense
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Surfsense uses a Freemium pricing model. Pricing and features may change over time.
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Free in beta for the next 3 months then $10/user
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