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.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: docAnalyzer — $8/mo vs $11.99/mo for AskYourPDF
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Both have one
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · docAnalyzer: Researchers and analysts working across many long PDFs at once
Platforms: AskYourPDF: Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension · docAnalyzer: Web

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

docAnalyzerChat with your PDFs and documents, with reusable per-document agents, OCR and answers tied to the source.

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	docAnalyzer
Category	PDF Tools	Chat with Documents & PDF
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$11.99/mo	$8/mo
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	89 / 100	89 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	Web, API
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	AI For Verticals, Inc.
Launched	2023	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

docAnalyzer

docAnalyzer suits people who live in long PDFs and scanned files and want citations that open the source page, OCR included, plus a choice of models or their own API key. Pricing has moved from flat unlimited tiers to monthly credits ($8 Basic with 100 credits, $16 Pro with 200), so anyone running heavy OCR or premium models should estimate credit use first. Organisations that need on-premise deployment or a large vendor behind them should look elsewhere.

Pros

Paid plans from $8 a month, with two months free on yearly billing
Citations open the exact page, section or cell an answer came from
Automatic OCR on upload in more than forty languages, plus a data extractor that builds a cited table across documents
Bring-your-own-key and API access from the Basic tier
Free Community plan that is not a time-limited trial

Cons

Credits are spent on premium models, OCR and large datasets, so the real monthly cost depends on usage
Community plan limits sit behind a toggle instead of next to the paid tiers
Team needs at least three seats and Enterprise at least five

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 docAnalyzer if you need

Researchers and analysts working across many long PDFs at once
Teams that need OCR and field extraction on scanned material
Users who want to bring their own model API key