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PDF.ai 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 $10/mo for PDF.ai
Free plan
Only PDF.ai (PDFConvo has paid plans only)
Public API
PDF.ai has one; not confirmed by us for PDFConvo
Higher Trust score
PDFConvo — 81 vs 68 for PDF.ai
Best fit
PDF.ai: Students and researchers querying long papers and reports · 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

PDF.aiChat with PDFs for answers and summaries, plus an API that parses, extracts fields from and splits documents.PDFConvoChat with uploaded PDFs for summaries and answers, sold as a single $2.99 monthly plan.

Side by side

FactPDF.aiPDFConvo
CategoryChat with Documents & PDFChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$10/mo$2.99/mo
Public APIYesNot confirmed
Trust score68 / 10081 / 100
PlatformsWeb, Chrome extension, APIWeb
Company—PDFConvo
Last verifiedOct 29, 2026Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

PDF.ai

PDF.ai works well for someone who reads long PDFs and wants quick answers and summaries, and for developers who need a simple REST call to turn PDFs into structured data. Users who only occasionally ask about a short file can stay on the free tier or use a general chatbot; enterprises with strict data-residency needs will find little public information about who runs the service.

Pros

  • Chat with one file or across a whole library of uploads
  • Separate parsing, extraction and splitting API with a free monthly allowance
  • Chrome extension, screenshot-and-ask and embeddable PDF chatbot
  • Annual billing cuts the Pro price from $17 to $10 a month

Cons

  • Free plan is limited to very small files and page counts
  • Team, capture and embed features sit on per-user plans
  • The site names no company, address or team

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 PDF.ai if you need

  • Students and researchers querying long papers and reports
  • Office teams summarizing contracts, manuals and filings
  • Developers who need parse, extract and split endpoints without building OCR

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

PDF.ai vs PDFConvo: the questions people ask

Is PDF.ai cheaper than PDFConvo?

On published entry prices, PDFConvo starts lower — $2.99/mo against $10/mo for PDF.ai. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does PDF.ai or PDFConvo have a free tier?

PDF.ai has a free tier; PDFConvo has paid plans only.

Which has a public API, PDF.ai or PDFConvo?

PDF.ai ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for PDFConvo is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.

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