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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. AskYourPDF starts at $11.99, DocXter at $7.99. Both have a free tier. Only AskYourPDF ships a public API.

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbotsDocXterAsk questions across a set of documents at once, including scanned ones, and keep them in a reusable knowledge base.

Side by side

FactAskYourPDFDocXter
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$11.99 month$7.99 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, APIWeb
CompanyAskYourPDFCloudRedux
Launched2023—
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

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
  • Zotero users who want chat over their reference library

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

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