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AskYourPDF vs PDFConvo

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, PDFConvo at $2.99. Only AskYourPDF has a free tier. Only AskYourPDF ships a public API.

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbotsPDFConvoChat with uploaded PDFs for summaries and answers, sold as a single $2.99 monthly plan.

Side by side

FactAskYourPDFPDFConvo
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$11.99 month$2.99 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, APIWeb
CompanyAskYourPDFPDFConvo
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

PDFConvo

At $2.99 a month for unlimited documents, PDFConvo is the cheapest way into document chat we found in this shard, and a single plan means no tier maths. What you are paying for is bare: no API, no integrations, no citation controls, and a vendor that publishes no company name or country. Fine for personal reading, weak for anything with a compliance question attached.

Pros

  • Single $2.99 plan with unlimited PDFs and unlimited chats
  • Free trial with no card required
  • Natural-language search plus automatic summaries and key points
  • Companion product covers CSV and spreadsheet files

Cons

  • No company name or country published anywhere on the site
  • No API or third-party integrations
  • No standing free tier once the trial ends
  • Feature copy is thin — no detail on file limits or citation behaviour

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 PDFConvo if you need

  • individuals reading long PDFs on a small budget
  • students summarising papers and reports
  • anyone wanting document chat without a tier comparison

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