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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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AskVideo.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Lets you chat with any YouTube video for timestamped answers, best for learners and researchers skipping long watch time.
20K visits/mo20K saves
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elium.com
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise AI knowledge-management platform for building a governed, searchable company knowledge hub teams actually use.
26K visits/mo
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PDF.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-known chat-with-PDF tool for summarizing and extracting; strong traffic.
484K visits/mo2.7K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
Free: $0 (100 AI messages/mo)
Premium: $8/mo (1,000 messages)
Pro: $29/mo (2,500 messages)
Business: $99/mo (8,000 messages)
Team: 15€/user/mo billed yearly
Corporate: 20€/user/mo billed yearly
Free trial available
No public pricing
Hobby: $0
Pro: $10/mo
Ultimate: $20/user/mo
Enterprise: $30/user/mo
Core features
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦Q&A on any YouTube video
- ✦Answers cited with timestamps
- ✦Video and audio upload transcription
- ✦Command-line interface
- ✦Cross-video search and collections
- ✦Embeddable chatbot widget
- ✦AI-powered search and answers
- ✦Content approval and expiration workflows
- ✦Multi-language sharing with AI translation
- ✦Templates and rich content creation
- ✦Microsoft, Slack, Google Drive integrations
- ✦ISO 27001 security, EU hosting, GDPR
- ✦Built-in support for OpenAI and Replicate
- ✦Easy to extend
- ✦Optimized UI for AI Chats
- ✦Customizable settings for different AI platforms
- ✦Chat with PDF documents
- ✦Summarize PDF content
- ✦Extract information from PDFs
- ✦Source citation for answers
- ✦OCR support
- ✦AI Agents for document analysis
- ✦Capture & Ask feature
- ✦Chatbot widget (add-on)
Use cases
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Studying lectures interactively
- →Extracting insights from webinars
- →Getting steps from tutorials
- →Searching across a playlist or channel
- →Central company knowledge base
- →Customer support and IT service desk
- →Onboarding and knowledge retention
- →Market watch and user insights
- →Getting answers from AI platforms like OpenAI and Replicate through a user-friendly interface.
- →Analyzing legal documents
- →Summarizing financial reports
- →Extracting key information from books
- →Reviewing scientific papers
- →Understanding user manuals
- →Creating employee training materials
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