Anara vs ChatDOC

Anara

• Researchers who want answers grounded in their own library of papers
• Working across hundreds of files and checking each claim against its source
• Zotero and Mendeley users, whose libraries import on every plan
• Writing with citations in a note editor or in Microsoft Word

ChatDOC

• Checking each AI answer against the passage it came from
• Reading papers and reports full of tables, formulas or scanned pages
• Asking questions across a folder of documents
• Users who want to answer with their own model API key

Anara

• The Free plan's AI usage limit refreshes daily, and each upload is capped at 20 MB or 120 pages.
• Choosing a model, OCR and the Google Drive, Notion and OneDrive connectors need Pro; Deep Search and Model Council need Max.
• The pricing page's scripts show the prices recorded here to visitors without a paid plan, while its initial HTML lists an earlier, higher set (Plus $10, Pro $20, billed yearly).
• The desktop app is for Mac only and there is no Android app. Anara's FAQ says it does not currently offer a student discount.

ChatDOC

• The Free plan is a one-time allowance of 10 uploads and 100 questions, and it accepts PDF files only.
• The web app says it does not work on mobile and asks users to open it on a computer.
• Image analysis is a paid add-on, and GPT-4o messages are bought as separate question packages.
• Refunds must be requested within 7 days of purchase and only if Pro features have not been used.

Anara

Chat across your library

Ask questions of a single file, hundreds of files in a folder or the entire library. Anara says one conversation can work across up to 10,000 files.

Answers cited to the passage

Every answer carries inline citations that open the exact passage in the source document, in numbered form or an academic citation style.

Agent and paper search

The agent searches your library, the web and academic databases such as PubMed, arXiv and JSTOR, then returns a cited synthesis. It can also import files and reorganize folders on request.

Write and cite

The note editor matches your writing to your library and the web to suggest citations, and builds formatted reference lists. An add-in brings the same tools into Microsoft Word.

File handling

Reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown, EPUB, images, audio and video; audio and video are transcribed automatically. OCR for scanned documents is part of Pro and above.

Deep Search and Model Council

On the Max plans, Deep Search runs multi-step research across your library and the web, and Model Council puts one question to several models at once.

ChatDOC

Cited answers with TapSource

Each answer carries footnotes that open the passage it came from, and figures quoted in an answer can be traced back to the table or data behind them.

Collections

Put files in a collection, or upload a folder, and ask questions across all of them. Free accounts can hold 30 files in a collection; Pro has no limit.

Tables, formulas and scans

Recognizes cross-page tables and formulas and reads scanned files with OCR. The changelog says OCR became free for all users in December 2025.

Document translation

Translates a whole PDF or Word file while keeping its layout. Free accounts can translate 3 pages per file; Pro is unlimited.

Bring your own model

Besides the built-in models, users can enter their own API key to answer with models from OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and others.

Browser extensions and API

Chrome and Edge extensions open local files and web documents in ChatDOC. A separate API sells document parsing and question answering as prepaid packages.

Anara

• Free$0

  Limited AI usage that refreshes daily, uploads of up to 20 MB or 120 pages each, and Zotero and Mendeley connectors.

• Plus$8

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($96); $10 billed monthly

  A larger weekly usage limit, credits for extra usage, uploads of up to 100 MB or 600 pages, science database connectors and 5 collaborators per folder.

• Pro$16

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($192); $20 billed monthly

  4x the usage of Plus, a choice of every AI model, uploads of up to 300 MB or 10,000 pages, OCR, cloud storage connectors and 50 collaborators per folder.

• Max 5x$80

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($960); $100 billed monthly

  5x the usage of Pro, plus Deep Search, Model Council, uploads with no size or page limit and unlimited folder collaborators.

• Max 20x$160

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($1,920); $200 billed monthly

  The same features as Max 5x with 20x the usage of Pro.

• EnterpriseCustom

  SSO/SAML and SCIM provisioning, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified security, SharePoint live sync and a shared Slack channel for support.

ChatDOC

• Free$0

  A one-time allowance of 10 PDF uploads and 100 questions, at most 5 files and 20 questions a day, with files of up to 300 pages and 60 MB.

• Pro$89.9

  per 360 days; the 30-day price sits behind a toggle

  300 uploads per 30 days, 300 questions a day, no page limit, 200 MB files, and Word, EPUB, Markdown, text, scanned and website sources.

Anara

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  Billed yearly, Plus is $8 a seat per month against $10 billed monthly, Pro is $16 against $20 and Max 5x is $80 against $100. The pricing page labels the yearly option as a 20% saving.

ChatDOC

No public discounts listed.