AskYourPDF vs ChatDOC

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Both have one
Higher Trust score: AskYourPDF — 89 vs 74 for ChatDOC
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · ChatDOC: Researchers and analysts who must verify every figure they quote
Platforms: AskYourPDF: Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension · ChatDOC: Web, Chrome extension

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbots

ChatDOCDocument question answering with click-through citations to source passages

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	ChatDOC
Category	PDF Tools	PDF Tools
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$11.99/mo	—
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	89 / 100	74 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	Web, Chrome extension, API
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	—
Launched	2023	—
Last verified	Oct 25, 2026	Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

AskYourPDF

A sensible pick when the job is repeatable question-answering across a document library rather than one clever answer, and the embeddable agent plus API are what separate it from the many ChatPDF clones. If you already live in Google's stack, NotebookLM covers the research half at no cost.

Pros

Page-level source citations instead of unattributed summaries
Documented API and Chrome extension, so it fits into existing workflows
Very large per-document page ceilings (2,500 on Premium, 6,000 on Pro)
Premium at $11.99/month billed yearly undercuts most document-chat rivals

Cons

Free tier is one document, three conversations and 50 questions per day
Advertised prices are annual-billing rates; monthly billing costs about 25% more
Daily rather than monthly quotas mean a heavy research day hits a hard wall
The 40-plus free writing tools are search-traffic surface, not the product

ChatDOC

Choose it over generic PDF chatbots for one reason: it shows you where the answer came from, one click to the highlighted passage. If you are assembling your own RAG stack, the standalone parser API is arguably the more interesting half of the product.

Pros

Every answer is anchored to its source passage, which is the entire point of the product
Handles cross-page tables, formulas and scanned documents, not just clean text
The parser ships as its own API, so ingestion quality can be tested independently
Cheap next to per-seat document AI products

Cons

Ownership and jurisdiction are not disclosed anywhere on the site, which matters for confidential documents
Free tier is tight enough to work as a demo rather than a usable plan
Billing runs in 30-day and 360-day blocks instead of a conventional monthly subscription
No team or workspace tier is published

Which one fits

Choose AskYourPDF if you need

Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages
Support teams embedding a chatbot trained on manuals and policy documents
Repeatedly filling the same non-fillable PDF forms from source records

Choose ChatDOC if you need

Researchers and analysts who must verify every figure they quote
Legal and compliance reading where a fabricated citation is unacceptable
Developers needing a table- and formula-aware PDF parser behind an API
Students working through long scanned texts that need OCR