AskYourPDF vs Humata
We give AskYourPDF a 3.2 GPA and Humata a 2.8, out of 4.0. AskYourPDF grades higher on value for money and platforms. They get the same grade on 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
Humata
Document Q&A with cited answers across your uploaded files
How we grade them
| 3.2GPAAskYourPDFVery good | 2.8GPAHumataGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BPremium is $11.99 a month billed yearly, or $14.99 monthly, right around what these tools usually start at. It covers 50 documents and 1,200 questions a day, plus Knowledge Bases and OCR. The Claude models and Gemini 2.5 Pro eat credits, and Premium comes with just 10. | CExpert is $9.99 a month and up to 3 people can share it, which sounds great. But it's metered: 500 pages a month, then $0.02 for every page after that. We think that's thin for the money in this category. And OCR for scanned text needs Team at $49 a user. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree for good, with 50 questions a day. But it's 1 document a day, capped at 100 pages and 15 MB, on GPT-5 Mini only. The trial of the paid plans lasts 3 days, and one page calls it free while another calls it a $1 trial. | BThere is a free plan, but it's small: 1 user, 60 pages a month and, going by the homepage, 10 answers. Enough to see how the citations work on a paper or two. Not much more. |
| Features | BIt does document chat fully: PDF, DOCX, EPUB, text files or a URL, answers that cite the page, and Knowledge Bases on paid plans for asking across many files. It's a reader, not a search engine, so it won't find papers. And the site now leads with a website chatbot and a form filler. | BIt does document chat fully: answers that link back to the passage, Ask All for one question across a folder, website import, and Grounded, Balanced and Creative modes for how closely it sticks to your files. Teams get roles and folder permissions. It only reads what you upload, though. |
| Ease of use | BNo App Store rating on record, so B is as high as we go. Upload a file and ask, simple as that. What takes working out is the models: some come with your plan and others need credits. | BNo App Store rating on record, so B is as high as we go. Upload a folder, tick the files and ask. The thing to keep an eye on is the page meter, since going over your allowance is billed per page. |
| Platforms and integrations | AWeb, iPhone, Android and a Chrome extension, with a Zotero hook-up and a developer API. The API is billed apart from the chat plans: free with 100 messages, or $49.99 a month. The extension is listed as a paid benefit. | BWeb only, and the listing shows no integrations with other apps. What lifts it is the API, which covers importing documents and asking questions, and an embed that puts a chat about a file or folder on your own web page. |
| Best for | asking questions of long documents | small teams asking questions of shared files |
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 Humata. How we grade
Where they differ
- AskYourPDF starts at $11.99 per month, billed yearly ($14.99 billed monthly). Humata starts at $9.99 per month, billed monthly (covers up to 3 users).
- Only AskYourPDF lists iOS and Android apps.
- Only AskYourPDF lists a browser extension.
At a glance
| AskYourPDF | Humata | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $11.99 per month, billed yearly ($14.99 billed monthly) | $9.99 per month, billed monthly (covers up to 3 users) |
| 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. | 1 user and 60 free pages a month with basic features. The homepage also limits it to 10 answers. |
| 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 | ||
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| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Proton Labs | Tilda Technologies Inc. |
| Price read from | askyourpdf.com | humata.ai |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Who each one suits
AskYourPDF
- Students and researchers who want cited answers from long papers and books
- Very long files: Pro accepts documents of up to 6,000 pages
- Zotero users who want summaries and document chat inside their library
- Site owners who want a support chatbot trained on their own pages and files
Humata
- Asking questions across many long PDFs and getting cited answers
- Small teams of up to three people sharing one $9.99 plan
- Companies that want to embed document Q&A on their own website
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.
Humata
- The Free plan is limited to 1 user and 60 pages a month, and the homepage also caps it at 10 answers.
- Pages beyond a plan's monthly allowance are billed per page: $0.02 on Expert and $0.01 on Team.
- OCR for scanned text, department and folder permissions and response personalization need the Team plan.
- The billing FAQ mentions a Student plan, but the pricing page does not list it or show a 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.
Humata
- Chat with your files
- Upload files or whole folders and ask questions about them. Each answer cites the relevant sections of the source documents, with highlighted links back into the file.
- Ask All across files
- Tick several files or a folder and use Ask All to put one question to all of them at once, for example to compare documents.
- Website import
- The From URL option in the upload dialog imports a website so that questions can be asked about its pages.
- Answer modes and custom prompts
- Grounded, Balanced and Creative modes set how closely answers stick to the documents, and a custom prompt can be sent along with every question.
- Team roles and permissions
- Admins invite members, assign admin or member roles, group people into teams and restrict access to folders. Department and folder permissions start at the Team plan.
- Embeds and API
- A chat view for a file or folder can be embedded in a web page, with white labeling on Enterprise. An API covers document import, conversations and questions.
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.
Humata
Free$0
1 user and 60 free pages a month, with basic features and up to 10 answers.
Expert$9.99
per month, billed monthly
Up to 3 users and 500 free pages a month, then $0.02 per additional page, with chat support.
Team$49
per user / month, billed monthly
For teams of up to 10: 5,000 free pages a month, then $0.01 per page, plus department and folder permissions, OCR and response personalization.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited users and custom page allowances, with a SOC-2 certificate, uptime SLA and early access to new features.
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.
Humata
No public discounts listed.
