ChatPDF vs Sourcely vs AI PDF Reader

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
Sourcely
Competitor 2
APAI PDF Reader
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for ChatPDF: Humata84% Smallpdf AI PDF83% Collate83% PDF.ai82% ReadDocs80% LightPDF79% PDFConvo78% UPDF78%
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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121.3Kvisits/mo
4.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 17.6%
▲ 324.1%
6-month growth
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-27.7%
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Global rank web
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#330,988
#7,244,900
Avg. last 3 months
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143.2K
1.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
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39%
0%
Pages / visit
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2.2
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Visit duration
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33s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
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ChatPDFSourcelyAI PDF Reader
050.7K101.4K152K202.7KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KAI PDF Reader · 1.2KAI PDF Reader · 294AI PDF Reader · 2.5KAI PDF Reader · 977AI PDF Reader · 4.1K1001K10K100K1MSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KAI PDF Reader · 1.2KAI PDF Reader · 294AI PDF Reader · 2.5KAI PDF Reader · 977AI PDF Reader · 4.1KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
$19per month · free tier available
Free
Free tier
Free trial
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Plans
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Free FreeUltra $19/moMax $39/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsTextWeb pages
Text
Documents
Output
Text
Text
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & Content+4 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI PDFAI Summarizer
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Interactive PDF processing
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PDF analysis
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PDFs
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Document summarization
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PDF summaries
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Summarizing
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Academic research
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Document reading
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Research
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Citations
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Document chat
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Academic citation
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Citation formatting
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Document summaries
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Document translation
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PDF translations
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Research papers
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Research papers summaries
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Translations
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Academic q a
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Homework assistance
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Literature reviews
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Summaries
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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