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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. AskYourPDF starts at $11.99, PaperChat at $3.99. Both have a free tier. Only AskYourPDF ships a public API.

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbotsPaperChatUpload documents and query several at once, with answers that point back at the passage they came from.

Side by side

FactAskYourPDFPaperChat
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$11.99 month$3.99 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, APIWeb
CompanyAskYourPDFPaperChat
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

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
  • Zotero users who want chat over their reference library

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

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