Collate vs ChatPDF vs UPDF vs Smallpdf AI PDF

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

Your tool
Collate
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Competitor 1
ChatPDF
Competitor 2
UPDF
Competitor 3
Smallpdf AI PDF
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Collate
collate.one
Collate is a free, offline PDF assistant designed for everyday learners, students, and professionals who want to take control of their PDFs. With Collate, you can: • Summarize PDFs: Turn lengthy doc
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Competitor 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 UPDF
pdfassistant.ai
PDFs that work the way you need them to
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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
4.1Kvisits/mo
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28.7Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 59.8%
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▼ 28.2%
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6-month growth
-0.1%
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-27.5%
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Global rank web
#4,822,608
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#984,401
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Avg. last 3 months
8.9K
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40.4K
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Bounce rate lower is better
37%
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42%
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Pages / visit
1.3
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2.1
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Visit duration
2s
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19s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 90% · ● Mail 10%
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CollateChatPDFUPDFSmallpdf AI PDF
015.8K31.5K47.3K63KCollate · 10.2KCollate · 7.2KCollate · 5.3KCollate · 4.1KCollate · 6KCollate · 13.1KCollate · 12.4KCollate · 10.2KCollate · 4.1KUPDF · 38.9KUPDF · 51.3KUPDF · 45.4KUPDF · 39.5KUPDF · 52.9KUPDF · 63KUPDF · 52.7KUPDF · 39.9KUPDF · 28.7K1K10K100KCollate · 10.2KCollate · 7.2KCollate · 5.3KCollate · 4.1KCollate · 6KCollate · 13.1KCollate · 12.4KCollate · 10.2KCollate · 4.1KUPDF · 38.9KUPDF · 51.3KUPDF · 45.4KUPDF · 39.5KUPDF · 52.9KUPDF · 63KUPDF · 52.7KUPDF · 39.9KUPDF · 28.7KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$9.99per month · free tier available
Free
$9.99per month · free tier available
€6per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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Plans
Free Custom
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Starter FreePlus $9.99/moPro $24.99/moBusiness $59.99/mo+1 more
Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Documents
DocumentsTextWeb pages
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Text
DocumentsText
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI PDFAI Summarizer
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & Content+4 more
Productivity & OfficeAI Document ExtractionAI PDF
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 5 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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PDFs
PDF analysis
PDF summaries
Interactive PDF processing
Document summarization
Summarizing
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Document data extraction
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Document reading
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Summaries
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PDF management
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Document scanning
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File conversion
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Local AI
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PDF translations
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Research
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Text extraction
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Academic research
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Document analysis
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Homework assistance
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PDF compression
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PDF redaction
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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.