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AskYourPDF vs docAnalyzer

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. AskYourPDF starts at $11.99, docAnalyzer at $6. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbotsdocAnalyzerChat with your PDFs and documents, with reusable per-document agents, OCR and answers tied to the source.

Side by side

FactAskYourPDFdocAnalyzer
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$11.99 month$6 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, APIWeb, API
CompanyAskYourPDFAI For Verticals, Inc.
Launched20232023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 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

docAnalyzer

A cheaper, more configurable answer to NotebookLM: unlimited documents at $12 a month, plus OCR, workspaces and the option to bring your own API key. Reviewers who moved from NotebookLM cite exactly that combination. It is a five-person bootstrapped company, so support and roadmap velocity are what you would expect at that size.

Pros

  • Unlimited uploads, questions and page counts on the $12 Pro tier
  • OCR, multi-document chat, labels and workspaces rather than a single flat file list
  • Bring-your-own-key and API access for people who want to control model spend
  • Free tier is usable for occasional work: 3 uploads and 20 prompts a day

Cons

  • The site blocks automated access, so pricing had to be corroborated second-hand
  • Five-person bootstrapped team — no funding cushion behind it
  • Company jurisdiction is not clearly published; the team is scattered across four cities
  • Basic's fair-use cap of 10,000 questions a month is a real ceiling, not a formality

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
  • Zotero users who want chat over their reference library

Choose docAnalyzer if you need

  • Researchers working across many long PDFs at once
  • Anyone hitting NotebookLM's source limits and wanting flat-rate unlimited uploads
  • Teams that need OCR on scanned material rather than clean digital PDFs

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