AskYourPDF vs Docalysis (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, AskYourPDF grades higher than Docalysis: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
AskYourPDF grades higher on platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
AskYourPDF
Chat with PDFs and other documents and get cited answers
Docalysis
Chat with PDF, text, CSV and Word files and get answers from them
Which one is for you
Pick AskYourPDF if
- Fits if you have one long paper or book and want answers with the page cited
- Works for Zotero users who want summaries and chat inside their library
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need something to find the papers, as this only reads what you give it
- Tight if you're staying free, at 1 document a day of up to 100 pages and 15 MB, on GPT-5 Mini only
- Not for you if you like a way out, since the terms say all sales are final with no refunds
- Watch out: Claude and Gemini 2.5 Pro spend credits on every paid plan, and Premium includes only 10
- Watch out: the 3-day trial is called free on one page and $1 on another, and the API is billed apart at $49.99 a month
Pick Docalysis if
- Fits if you want quick answers out of a long PDF
- Works for someone who occasionally asks questions of a handful of files
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 50 question credits a month and files up to 5 MB
- Skip it if your files are slides or other formats, as only PDF, TXT, CSV and DOCX are listed
- Watch out: documents are kept indefinitely on Amazon S3 until you delete them
- Watch out: batch processing and the Business plan have no published price
- Pricey if you want bigger files, which means Plus at $14 a month
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAAskYourPDFFair | 2.2GPADocalysisFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPremium is $11.99 a month billed yearly, $14.99 monthly, which is this category's middle. You get 50 documents and 1,200 questions a day with Knowledge Bases and OCR, but the Claude models and Gemini 2.5 Pro run on credits and Premium hands you 10. | C$14 a month billed monthly for Plus, $35 for Ultimate. Plus is above the research dearer-quarter line of $12.50, though below the dearest tenth at $20. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree for good, with 50 questions a day. The document cap is the limit: 1 a day, up to 100 pages and 15 MB, on GPT-5 Mini only. Caps you'll hit on your first real afternoon. The paid trial runs 3 days, and one page calls it free while another calls it a $1 trial. | CA free plan with 50 question credits and 600 uploaded pages a month, and files up to 5 MB and 150 pages. You'll hit that on a few long papers. |
| Features | CIt does chat-with-your-document completely — PDF, DOCX, EPUB, text or a URL, answers citing the page, Knowledge Bases on paid plans for asking across many files at once. But that's the smaller half of research: it reads what you hand it and won't go and find the papers. | CChat with one file or many, share and embed. The listing only supports PDF, TXT, CSV and DOCX and has no app, and batch work is arranged by hand. |
| Ease of use | BNo store rating on record, so the B comes from what the listing shows, and it shows about the simplest thing in this category: upload a file, ask a question. What takes working out is the models, since some come with your plan and others spend credits. | BNo store rating on record. Upload a file and ask: nothing to set up. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, iPhone, Android, a Chrome extension, a Zotero hook-up and a developer API. No Mac or Windows app, though, and that's what an A wants. The API is billed apart from the chat plans: free for 100 messages, then $49.99 a month. | CWeb only, with no integrations or apps listed. |
| Best for | asking questions of long documents | asking questions of a PDF, Word, CSV or text file |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: AskYourPDF and Docalysis. How we grade
Price against what you get
AskYourPDF starts at $11.99 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Docalysis starts at $14 a month and scores 2.3.
AskYourPDF scores higher and starts $2.01 a month lower. Of the other AI research tools on the chart, 3 score higher than AskYourPDF for less, and 16 score higher than Docalysis for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- AskYourPDF also covers research and citations.
- Docalysis also covers documents.
At a glance
| AskYourPDF | Docalysis | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $11.99 per month, billed yearly ($14.99 billed monthly) | $14 per month, billed monthly |
| Free plan | 1 document a day of up to 100 pages and 15 MB, with 50 questions and 3 conversations a day on the GPT-5 Mini model. | 50 question credits and 600 uploaded pages a month, files up to 5 MB and 150 pages each. |
| Free trial | 3-day trial of Premium or Pro; the pricing page calls it a free trial, the chat-with-PDF page a $1 trial. | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Proton Labs | Docalysis |
| Price read from | askyourpdf.com | docalysis.com |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
AskYourPDF
- The free plan covers 1 document a day, capped at 100 pages and 15 MB, and uses GPT-5 Mini only.
- Knowledge Bases, OCR and Chrome extension access appear only in the benefits of the paid plans.
- Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro need credits on every paid plan; Premium includes 10 and Pro 30.
- The terms say all sales are final, with no refunds or pro-rata credits.
Docalysis
- Only PDF, TXT, CSV and DOCX files are listed as supported, and the vendor lists no mobile or desktop app.
- The free plan caps files at 5 MB and 150 pages and allows 50 chat messages a month.
- Documents are kept indefinitely by default and stored on Amazon S3 until you delete them; a specific retention policy has to be requested.
- Batch processing and the Business plan are arranged through the vendor, with no published price.
Key features
AskYourPDF
- Chat with documents
- Upload a PDF, DOCX, EPUB or TXT file, or paste a URL, and ask questions in plain language. Each answer cites the page it came from, and the site says it works in more than 100 languages.
- Knowledge Bases
- Premium and Pro group documents into a Knowledge Base, so that one question draws a single cited answer from every file in it.
- Choice of AI models
- The free plan runs on GPT-5 Mini. Paid plans add GPT-5, GPT-5.2 and Gemini 2.5 Flash, while Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro draw on credits.
- AI Agent for websites
- Trains a chatbot on your website and uploaded files and embeds it with one line of code. Visitors can open a support ticket when the agent cannot answer.
- AI form filler
- Fills fillable and non-fillable PDF forms using data taken from another PDF, a text file or pasted content.
- Developer API
- Adds documents by upload or URL and answers questions about them. API plans are separate: free with 100 messages, or $49.99 a month for 6,000 messages and 60,000 pages.
Docalysis
- Chat with a document
- Upload a PDF, TXT, CSV or DOCX file and ask questions about it in a conversation. Each chat message uses one question credit.
- Multi-file chat
- Move several files into a folder and chat with the folder to ask questions across all of them. This is available on every plan, including Free.
- Many languages
- The FAQ lists English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and others; the chat switches to the language you write in.
- Share and embed
- A file made public can be shared by link or placed on a website with embed code, so visitors can ask it questions.
- Batch processing
- For hundreds or thousands of files, the vendor runs a set of questions you supply over documents in a cloud drive and returns a CSV of answers. This is arranged by contacting the vendor.
- Bonus credits
- When a month's question credits or page uploads run out, extra bonus credits can be bought instead of changing plan. They are used only after the plan's own credits.
Plans
AskYourPDF
Free$0
1 document a day of up to 100 pages and 15 MB, with 50 questions and 3 conversations a day on GPT-5 Mini.
Premium$11.99
per month, billed yearly; $14.99 billed monthly
50 documents a day of up to 2,500 pages and 31 MB, 1,200 questions a day, Knowledge Bases, OCR, the Chrome extension and 10 credits.
Pro$14.99
per month, billed yearly; $19.99 billed monthly
150 documents a day of up to 6,000 pages and 877 MB, longer replies, priority support and 30 credits.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited pages per document and unlimited questions, up to 1,000 documents a day and custom credits. Sold through sales.
Docalysis
Free$0
50 question credits and 600 page uploads a month, 5 MB and 150 pages per file, multi-file chat.
Plus$14
per month, billed monthly
500 question credits and 3,000 page uploads a month, 20 MB and 600 pages per file, multi-file chat, email support.
Ultimate$35
per month, billed monthly
1,500 question credits and 8,000 page uploads a month, 50 MB and 1,800 pages per file, multi-file chat, email support.
BusinessCustom
Custom limits, team administration and phone support. Price varies; contact the vendor.
Ways to pay less
AskYourPDF
- Annual discount
Up to 25% off with annual billing
The pricing page labels annual billing as 25% off. Premium is $11.99 a month billed yearly against $14.99 billed monthly, and Pro is $14.99 against $19.99.
Docalysis
- Annual discount
20% off with yearly billing
The pricing page has a One Year option marked 20% off the monthly prices for Plus and Ultimate; the yearly amounts are not shown in the page text.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, AskYourPDF or Docalysis?
As of Nov 12, 2026, AskYourPDF is cheaper to start with: $11.99 a month, against $14 a month for Docalysis. AskYourPDF starts at $11.99 per month, billed yearly ($14.99 billed monthly), and Docalysis starts at $14 per month, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, AskYourPDF or Docalysis?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both AskYourPDF and Docalysis have a free plan.
Which platforms do AskYourPDF and Docalysis run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only AskYourPDF lists iOS and Android apps and a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.