What is PDFChat?
Complex PDFs, tables and images answered with citations.
Who is PDFChat best for?
PDFChat is best for professionals and researchers who need cited answers from long PDFs and scanned papers.
Checking answers against the source
Each answer carries citations you can click to see the exact passage in the file, so you can verify it before you quote it.
Reports full of tables
Select a table or a passage and ask about it directly, which suits reports and research papers heavy on tables.
Questions across several files
Put documents in a collection and ask about them together; Pro lifts the free plan's 30-file limit per collection.
Maths and scanned papers
Snip a formula to have it explained, and Pro reads scanned pages with OCR, up to 500 pages every 30 days.
How much does PDFChat cost?
PDFChat has a Free plan capped at 10 files and 100 questions in total, and its Pro plan costs $8.99 every 30 days or $89.9 for 360 days.
- 5 files a day, 10 in total
- 20 questions a day, 100 in total
- PDF only, up to 300 pages and 60 MB a file
- 300 files per 30 days and 300 questions a day
- No page limit, files up to 200 MB, 500 OCR pages per 30 days
- Word, scans, web pages, EPUB, Markdown and TXT as well as PDF
Pro costs $89.9 for 360 days. Pro also adds formula recognition and removes the 30-file limit per collection; GPT-4o image analysis is a paid add-on. PDFChat is run by ChatDOC: sign-up and payment happen on chatdoc.com, which lists the same plans and prices. Full pricing on pdfchat.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best PDFChat alternatives?
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Questions about PDFChat
What is PDFChat?
Complex PDFs, tables and images answered with citations.
Who is PDFChat for?
PDFChat is best for professionals and researchers who need cited answers from long PDFs and scanned papers.
Is PDFChat free?
PDFChat's Free plan costs nothing and needs no card, but it stops at 10 files and 100 questions in total, and only reads PDFs of up to 300 pages. After that you need Pro, at $8.99 every 30 days.
How much does PDFChat cost?
PDFChat's paid plans are Pro at $8.99 per 30 days.
What are the best PDFChat alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are ChatPDF, Askdocs and PDF AI.
Where can I try PDFChat?
On its official website, pdfchat.com.
Is PDFChat the same as ChatDOC?
Yes, in practice. PDFChat is a site run by ChatDOC: its sign-up and subscribe buttons open ChatDOC, its terms of service are ChatDOC's, and chatdoc.com lists the same Free and Pro plans at the same prices.
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