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760K visits/mo
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ChatPDF
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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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Chatnode
✓ verifiedFreemium

Platform to build AI customer-service agents trained on your data that answer 24/7, take real actions and hand off to humans.

10K visits/mo44K saves
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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium

Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.

29K visits/mo
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Context Link
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Connects your docs, inboxes and apps into one source-backed knowledge base that ChatGPT, Claude and agents can query.

19K visits/mo
Pricing
Starter: $9/mo
Pro: $18/mo
Expert: $25/mo

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (35 credits/mo, 1 chatbot)
Lite: $35/mo (1,250 credits/mo, 1 agent)
Standard: $89/mo (12,500 credits/mo, 3 agents)
Scale: $377/mo (50,000 credits/mo, 8 agents)

Free trial available

Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)

Free trial available

Context: $19/seat/mo (7-day trial)
Context + Lenses: $59/mo (then $19 per extra seat)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Access to multiple AI models (GPT-4, Claude 3, Mixtral)
  • PDF analysis
  • AI image generation
  • AI data scientist
  • AI visualizations
  • Music composition
  • 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
  • AI agents trained on website/docs with auto-retrain
  • AI Actions (Stripe billing, Calendly booking, API calls)
  • Multi-channel embed (site, Slack, Notion and more)
  • Human handoff with context
  • Analytics on deflection and satisfaction
  • Multiple LLMs selectable per task
  • Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
  • Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
  • Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
  • MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
  • Workspaces and chunk-level access control
  • On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
  • Unifies docs, websites, inboxes and files into one synced knowledge base
  • Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and MCP-aware agents
  • Source-cited answers with reviewable past lookups
  • Save settled decisions as reusable Memories
  • Sources auto re-sync every 24 hours
  • Exclude anything you do not want indexed
Use cases
  • Chat with PDF documents to get instant insights
  • Turn data into easy-to-understand visuals
  • Create high-quality images with AI
  • Manage tasks more efficiently with AI assistance
  • Understand research papers
  • Study and homework help
  • Review contracts and reports
  • Translate and summarize documents
  • Automate customer support
  • Book meetings and complete tasks in chat
  • Capture and qualify leads
  • Keep answers current via auto-retrain
  • Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
  • OCR and structure scanned documents
  • Grounded document search with citations for agents
  • Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
  • Let AI answer questions about your business from existing content
  • Give e-commerce or agency teams one place to query support, brand and catalog docs
  • Keep canonical decisions like pricing or ICP current across every AI tool
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