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AskYourPDF vs Pdfy

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, Pdfy at $10. Both have a free tier. Only AskYourPDF ships a public API.

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbotsPdfyAsk questions across PDFs, audio files, web pages and YouTube videos and get answers with sources

Side by side

FactAskYourPDFPdfy
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$11.99 month$10 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, APIWeb
CompanyAskYourPDF—
Launched20232023
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

Pdfy

Taking audio files and YouTube links as first-class sources alongside PDFs is the part worth paying attention to — most competitors in this bracket handle documents only, so lecture recordings and interviews need a separate transcription step first. Citations back to the source are present, which is the minimum bar for trusting an answer. It is a small, cheap tool with a 2023 copyright and no company details, so plan for it being a personal utility rather than something to standardise a team on.

Pros

  • Handles four source types — documents, audio, web pages and YouTube — in one workspace
  • Answers carry source attribution rather than free-floating text
  • Questions run across all sources in a workspace, not one file at a time
  • Cheapest paid tier sits under €10 a month

Cons

  • Free tier is five sources and fifty questions a month, which is a trial in all but name
  • A permanent-looking '50% off' banner makes the real list price hard to trust
  • No company name, country or team is disclosed; the copyright still reads 2023
  • No API, integrations or team features are offered

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 Pdfy if you need

  • Students working across lecture recordings, slides and papers at once
  • Anyone who needs answers from a YouTube video without watching it
  • Light personal research where €9 a month is the whole budget

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