AskYourPDF

AskYourPDF has four tiers: a free plan with basic chat limits, a Premium plan at $9.99/month, a Pro plan at $14.99/month, and an API Pro plan starting at $19.99/month for developers. You get a 25% discount when you subscribe annually to Premium or Pro. The Premium plan includes unlimited chats, up to 50 documents per day, and files up to 31 MB — enough for most students and professionals.

Premium ($9.99/month) gives you unlimited chats, up to 50 documents per day, and files up to 31 MB per PDF with up to 2,500 pages per document. Pro ($14.99/month) increases those limits further — more documents per day, larger file sizes, priority access to advanced models, and additional features. Most individual users are well-served by Premium; Pro makes sense when you're processing very large documents or volumes regularly.

Yes. AskYourPDF is one of the original and most-installed ChatGPT plugins, letting you upload a PDF and query it directly inside ChatGPT without switching to a separate tool. If you're already a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, the plugin is a zero-friction way to add PDF chat to your existing workflow. The standalone AskYourPDF web app offers more features, including multi-document search and a friendlier interface.

Yes. AskYourPDF supports multi-document search, so you can upload a batch of related PDFs and ask questions that span all of them. This is useful for literature reviews, comparing contracts, summarizing meeting packs, and any task where you need the AI to synthesize across several files. Multi-document search is included in Premium and Pro plans — the free tier restricts you to single-document chat.

Yes. AskYourPDF includes OCR support so you can upload scanned PDFs and chat with them as if they were native text. OCR quality is solid on clean scans and slightly weaker on handwritten or low-resolution documents — this is a universal limitation of OCR in 2026. For mission-critical scanned document processing, always spot-check the AI's answers against the original pages to catch OCR errors.

For students, researchers, and professionals who regularly work with PDFs, yes. Premium unlocks unlimited chats, 50 documents per day, files up to 31 MB and 2,500 pages, OCR, and multi-document search. Compared to Pro plans from competitors like ChatPDF ($20/month) and PDF.ai ($20/month billed yearly), AskYourPDF Premium is one of the more affordable options in the PDF-chat category — particularly with the 25% annual discount.

Yes. The API Pro plan starts at $19.99/month and lets developers upload documents, query them, and retrieve answers programmatically. It's popular for embedding PDF chat into SaaS products, building internal document search, and automating document analysis pipelines. The API is straightforward REST with standard auth and returns source-linked answers, making it suitable for production workloads.

All three are solid, with AskYourPDF being the most affordable ($9.99/month Premium vs $20/month for the other two). ChatPDF is the most polished for casual single-user PDF chat. PDF.ai is the most developer-friendly with its Capture & Ask feature and embeddable chatbots. AskYourPDF sits in the middle with strong multi-document search and competitive pricing.