ChatPDF vs Liminary vs Smallpdf AI PDF

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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ChatPDF
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Competitor 1
Liminary
Competitor 2
Smallpdf AI PDF
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for ChatPDF: Humata84% APAI PDF Reader83% Collate83% PDF.ai82% ReadDocs80% LightPDF79% PDFConvo78% UPDF78%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool ChatPDF
chatpdf.com
ChatPDF is a document question-answering app: upload a PDF, ask questions in plain language, and get answers with built-in citations that point back to the source passage.
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Competitor Liminary
liminary.io
Ever open a browser tab to find something you saved three months ago, only to spend ten minutes hunting through bookmarks
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Competitor Smallpdf AI PDF
smallpdf.com
Smallpdf AI PDF, also called Chat with PDF, lets you upload a document and talk to it.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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23.3Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 18.4%
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6-month growth
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-10.4%
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Global rank web
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#1,028,276
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Avg. last 3 months
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24.3K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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37%
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Pages / visit
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2.0
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Visit duration
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51s
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Traffic sources
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ChatPDFLiminarySmallpdf AI PDF
09.3K18.6K27.9K37.2KLiminary · 37.2KLiminary · 16KLiminary · 26KLiminary · 18.1KLiminary · 28.2KLiminary · 21.2KLiminary · 28.5KLiminary · 23.3K10K100KLiminary · 37.2KLiminary · 16KLiminary · 26KLiminary · 18.1KLiminary · 28.2KLiminary · 21.2KLiminary · 28.5KLiminary · 23.3KJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free
$29per month · free tier available
€6per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
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Explorer FreePro $29/moTeam $50/mo
Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsTextWeb pages
DocumentsTextWeb pages
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Text
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & Content+4 more
Education & LearningAI Knowledge Management
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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PDF analysis
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PDFs
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Interactive PDF processing
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Document summarization
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PDF summaries
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Summarizing
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Bookmarking
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Document chat
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Chrome extensions
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Knowledge bases
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PDF translations
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Research
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Academic research
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Digital information management
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Document data extraction
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Document reading
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Homework assistance
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Note taking
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Summaries
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Web search summaries
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Reviews
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Prompts
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.