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.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: PDFConvo — $2.99/mo vs $11.99/mo for AskYourPDF
Free plan: Only AskYourPDF (PDFConvo has paid plans only)
Public API: AskYourPDF has one; not confirmed by us for PDFConvo
Higher Trust score: AskYourPDF — 89 vs 81 for PDFConvo
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · PDFConvo: individuals reading long PDFs on a small budget

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

PDFConvoChat with uploaded PDFs for summaries and answers, sold as a single $2.99 monthly plan.

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	PDFConvo
Category	PDF Tools	Chat with Documents & PDF
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Starts at	$11.99/mo	$2.99/mo
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	89 / 100	81 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	Web
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	PDFConvo
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

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

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