AskYourPDF
Chat with a PDF in a browser tab, or inside ChatGPT via a plugin, and get answers with citations back to the source page.
What you'd use it for
Getting a quick, page-referenced answer out of a long PDF - a contract, report, or paper - without reading the whole thing.
- Chat with a PDF, slide deck, or notebook and get answers with a citation back to the exact page
- Get an instant summary of a long document instead of reading it end to end
- Chat across several uploaded documents in one combined conversation
- Ask questions on a PDF directly inside ChatGPT via the AskYourPDF plugin
- Auto-fill a fillable or non-fillable PDF form from another document's data
The verdict
AskYourPDF does the specific job well - find an answer buried in a long document and get it with a page citation you can check, rather than take on faith. The catch shows up at the free tier, where the 100-page document limit rules out anything but short files, so anyone working with a real contract or report should expect to land on Mini Premium. It suits someone who needs a quick, checkable answer out of a specific document now and again, not a team knowledge base or an automated workflow - there is no file-storage connection and nothing runs on a schedule.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Occasional use on short documents. | 100 pages/document, 50 documents/day, 1,200 questions/day, 50 conversations/day. |
| Mini Premium | $11.99/mo, billed yearly | Someone reading longer documents regularly. | 2,500 pages/document, 50 documents/day, knowledge-base chat across multiple documents, OCR support. |
| Pro | $14.99/mo, billed yearly | The most frequent, heaviest document use. | Everything in Mini Premium, plus unlimited ChatGPT plugin questions, longer reply length, priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom, talk to sales | Large organisations. | Unlimited pages per document, unlimited documents and questions per day. |
Read from AskYourPDF's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
What you need to start
- A file to upload - PDF, PPT/PPTX, EPUB, TXT, or RTF - no account needed for a first quick chat
- A free account, only to save chat history and get the higher free-tier limits
A minute or two to upload a document and get a first cited answer with no signup; an account is a further minute if you want your history saved.
Your first run Upload a PDF, or paste its link, and it is processed into a searchable document within roughly a minute; from there you type a question in the chat box and get an answer with a citation back to the source page.
Where it breaks
The prices shown are the annual-billed monthly-equivalent rate; the plain monthly-billed price was not clearly separated on the pricing page.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
When not to use it
Not for anyone who wants a shared, always-on knowledge base or automatic syncing with a file store - this is a manual, one-document-at-a-time browser tool, not infrastructure. Not worth paying for if your documents are consistently short, since the free tier already covers a 100-page file.
AskYourPDF answers a specific annoyance: a long PDF — a contract, a report, a paper — where you need three answers out of it and do not want to read the whole thing to find them. Upload it, ask in plain language, and it answers with a citation back to the page the answer came from, which is the detail that makes the answer checkable rather than something to take on faith.
It reports 5 million-plus users, helped by being one of the more-installed document plugins inside the ChatGPT plugin ecosystem early on, alongside its own standalone web app and mobile apps.
Where the tiers matter
The real constraint on Free is the 100-page document limit — genuinely short documents only. Mini Premium’s jump to 2,500 pages per document is the point where this becomes usable on real contracts and reports rather than short memos, which makes it the tier most people who need this regularly should expect to land on.
What it is not
This is a browser tool: paste a link, upload a file, read the answer, copy it out. Nothing here connects to your file storage automatically or runs a scheduled check — every session starts because you opened it and asked.
Alternatives
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Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
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Assistants & chatAppsNotebookLM
Upload your own documents and ask questions answered only from them, with citations back to the exact passage, plus generated audio summaries of the material.
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