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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Arsturn
✓ verifiedFreemium
No-code builder for custom ChatGPT-style website chatbots trained on your data for support, lead gen and engagement.
133K 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
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (50 credits)
Saver: $1.99/mo (250 credits)
Starter: $9/mo (1,500 credits)
Standard: $36/mo (6,000 credits)
Pro: $144/mo (24,000 credits)
Free trial available
Hobby: $0
Pro: $10/mo
Ultimate: $20/user/mo
Enterprise: $30/user/mo
Core features
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦No-code chatbot creation
- ✦Train on files/URLs/Notion/Zendesk
- ✦Website embed widget
- ✦Conversation analytics
- ✦~95 language support
- ✦Custom branding
- ✦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
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Website customer support
- →Lead generation
- →FAQ and audience engagement
- →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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