AskYourPDF vs Search+

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: Search+ — $4.99/mo vs $11.99/mo for AskYourPDF
Free plan: Only AskYourPDF (Search+ has paid plans only)
Public API: AskYourPDF has one; not confirmed by us for Search+
Higher Trust score: AskYourPDF — 89 vs 81 for Search+
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · Search+: Legal and research work across large precedent or documentation sets

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

Search+Chat with large PDF collections and get answers with the source passage cited back

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	Search+
Category	PDF Tools	Chat with Documents & PDF
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Starts at	$11.99/mo	$4.99/mo
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	89 / 100	81 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	Web
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	Search+
Launched	2023	—
Last verified	Oct 25, 2026	Oct 15, 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

Search+

The 5GB-per-document ceiling and OCR handling are the genuine differentiators — most PDF chat tools fall over on the files this is built for. The pricing is the problem in disguise: every tier is metered in pages, and 250 pages a month on the entry plan is two long reports, so real usage lands you on a higher tier quickly.

Pros

Handles documents up to 5GB with OCR support
Answers carry direct citations to the source passage
Deep-analysis templates work across a whole collection, not one file at a time
A $149 one-time lifetime plan exists as an alternative to monthly billing

Cons

Every tier is metered in pages per month, and Basic is only 250
No public API found
No company entity, address or country published

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 Search+ if you need

Legal and research work across large precedent or documentation sets
Files too big for mainstream PDF chat tools to open at all
Anyone who needs the citation, not just the answer