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ChatPDF vs docAnalyzer

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. docAnalyzer publishes a starting price ($6); ChatPDF does not. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

ChatPDFAsk questions about PDFs, documents and videosdocAnalyzerChat with your PDFs and documents, with reusable per-document agents, OCR and answers tied to the source.

Side by side

FactChatPDFdocAnalyzer
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at—$6 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, macOS, APIWeb, API
CompanyChatPDF GmbHAI For Verticals, Inc.
Launched20232023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

ChatPDF

The quickest way to interrogate one long PDF without building retrieval yourself, and the page-level citations are what keep it honest. But ChatGPT and Claude now read PDFs natively, so ChatPDF only earns its subscription if you need those citations, the multi-file view, or the API.

Pros

  • answers cite specific pages, so you can check them instead of trusting them
  • handles Word, PowerPoint, Markdown and text files, not only PDF
  • REST API supports streaming and multi-turn conversations
  • free tier works with no account and no card

Cons

  • two documents a day on free runs out fast during real research
  • Plus pricing is not published anywhere on the site
  • no team plan, SSO or shared document library
  • hard per-file limit of 2,000 pages or 32 MB

docAnalyzer

A cheaper, more configurable answer to NotebookLM: unlimited documents at $12 a month, plus OCR, workspaces and the option to bring your own API key. Reviewers who moved from NotebookLM cite exactly that combination. It is a five-person bootstrapped company, so support and roadmap velocity are what you would expect at that size.

Pros

  • Unlimited uploads, questions and page counts on the $12 Pro tier
  • OCR, multi-document chat, labels and workspaces rather than a single flat file list
  • Bring-your-own-key and API access for people who want to control model spend
  • Free tier is usable for occasional work: 3 uploads and 20 prompts a day

Cons

  • The site blocks automated access, so pricing had to be corroborated second-hand
  • Five-person bootstrapped team — no funding cushion behind it
  • Company jurisdiction is not clearly published; the team is scattered across four cities
  • Basic's fair-use cap of 10,000 questions a month is a real ceiling, not a formality

Which one fits

Choose ChatPDF if you need

  • students and researchers pulling verifiable quotes out of long papers
  • checking claims inside a contract or report you did not write
  • developers wanting a hosted PDF-Q&A endpoint instead of rolling their own RAG stack

Choose docAnalyzer if you need

  • Researchers working across many long PDFs at once
  • Anyone hitting NotebookLM's source limits and wanting flat-rate unlimited uploads
  • Teams that need OCR on scanned material rather than clean digital PDFs

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