AskYourPDF vs DocXter

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: DocXter — $7.99/mo vs $11.99/mo for AskYourPDF
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: AskYourPDF has one; not confirmed by us for DocXter
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · DocXter: students and researchers working across a stack of papers at once
Platforms: AskYourPDF: Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension · DocXter: 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

DocXterAsk questions across a set of documents at once, including scanned ones, and keep them in a reusable knowledge base.

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	DocXter
Category	PDF Tools	Chat with Documents & PDF
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$11.99/mo	$7.99/mo
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	89 / 100	90 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	Web
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	CloudRedux
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

DocXter

A document chat tool with two things most rivals skip: several documents in one conversation, and OCR so scans are not dead weight. The persistent knowledge base means you stop re-uploading the same files. Credits and per-plan user counts are the real constraint, and the free tier's three-day history makes it evaluation-only.

Pros

Queries several documents in a single conversation rather than one file at a time
OCR brings scanned and photographed documents into scope
A persistent knowledge base and unlimited history on paid tiers
Answers in fifteen or more languages, including Hindi and mixed Hindi-English

Cons

File support stops at DOCX, PDF, TXT and PPTX; spreadsheets and images are not covered
The free tier keeps document history for only three days
Advertised monthly prices are annual-billing rates, so monthly billing costs more
No API, and seat counts are capped per tier

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 DocXter if you need

students and researchers working across a stack of papers at once
professionals querying scanned contracts or agreements
small teams that want a shared document knowledge base