ChatPDF

What is ChatPDF?

Chat with PDFs and get answers with page citations.

Who is ChatPDF best for?

ChatPDF is best for students and researchers who want to question a PDF and check each answer against its page.

• Reading research papers

  Each answer links to the passage it came from, which scrolls into view in the PDF beside the chat.

• Studying for exams

  Besides chat, it turns course readings into summaries, flashcards and slides.

• Contracts and reports at work

  Contracts, financial reports and manuals can be questioned in any language, and folders let several files share one chat.

• Quick one-off questions

  It works without an account, so you can drop in a file and ask straight away.

How much does ChatPDF cost?

ChatPDF is free for 2 documents a day, and ChatPDF Plus costs $9.99 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly, for unlimited PDFs and questions.

Billed yearly, Plus works out to $5 a month, half the monthly price. ChatPDF has no separate pricing page; the plans sit in the Plus upgrade window on its site. Full pricing on chatpdf.com. We checked these prices on 27 Sep 2026.

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What are the best ChatPDF alternatives?

Three tools on Recaply do ChatPDF's job. All three are open source, so you can run them on your own server.

KhojOpen Source

Choose it when you want to question many PDFs, Markdown, Word and org-mode files at once, with the files kept on your machine

AnythingLLMOpen Source

Choose it when your documents must stay on your own computer, with no daily document limit like ChatPDF's free plan

SurfSenseOpen Source

Choose it when you need cited answers across Word, Excel, slides and scanned PDFs on your own computer, plus edits as tracked changes

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