AskYourPDF vs PaperChat

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: PaperChat — $3.99/mo vs $11.99/mo for AskYourPDF
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: AskYourPDF has one; not confirmed by us for PaperChat
Higher Trust score: AskYourPDF — 89 vs 77 for PaperChat
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · PaperChat: students comparing a handful of papers in one conversation

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

PaperChatUpload documents and query several at once, with answers that point back at the passage they came from.

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	PaperChat
Category	PDF Tools	Chat with Documents & PDF
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$11.99/mo	$3.99/mo
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	89 / 100	77 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	Web
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	PaperChat
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

PaperChat

Querying several documents in one conversation and exporting the thread with sources attached is genuinely more useful than one-file-at-a-time chat, and the price is low. The limits are where it bites: seven documents a month on Premium and a 35-page cap per PDF rule out most research use, and the vendor confirms there is no API and no integrations at all.

Pros

Chats across multiple uploaded documents at once
Exports the conversation with sourced answers
Handles PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, TXT and MD in 40+ languages
Free plan and a $3.99 entry tier keep the barrier low

Cons

Premium allows only 7 documents a month and 35 pages per PDF
The FAQ confirms no API and no third-party integrations
No registered company, only a CEO name and Romanian jurisdiction
Advertised file-type support is ahead of what is actually live

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 PaperChat if you need

students comparing a handful of papers in one conversation
readers who need answers in languages other than English
anyone who wants the conversation exported with its sources