Collate vs LightPDF vs Smallpdf AI PDF vs TLDR This

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

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Collate
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LightPDF
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Smallpdf AI PDF
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TLDR This
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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 LightPDF
lightpdf.com
LightPDF AI for Docs is an online tool that utilizes artificial intelligence to summarize and extract insights from uploaded PDF, Word, Excel, and PPT documents. With multi-platform availability and s
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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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Competitor TLDR This
tldrthis.com
TLDR This turns long articles, web pages and documents into short summaries that are quick to read.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
4.1Kvisits/mo
1.8Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 59.8%
▲ 1.0%
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6-month growth
-0.1%
-4.4%
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Global rank web
#4,822,608
#34,433
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Avg. last 3 months
8.9K
1.7M
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Bounce rate lower is better
37%
51%
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Pages / visit
1.3
2.3
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Visit duration
2s
1m 31s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 88% · ● Referral 10%
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CollateLightPDFSmallpdf AI PDFTLDR This
0477.3K954.5K1.4M1.9MCollate · 10.2KCollate · 7.2KCollate · 5.3KCollate · 4.1KCollate · 6KCollate · 13.1KCollate · 12.4KCollate · 10.2KCollate · 4.1KLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.7MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.5MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.8M1K10K100K1M10MCollate · 10.2KCollate · 7.2KCollate · 5.3KCollate · 4.1KCollate · 6KCollate · 13.1KCollate · 12.4KCollate · 10.2KCollate · 4.1KLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.7MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.5MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.8MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
$9.99per month · free tier available
$1.33per month · free tier available
€6per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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API access
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Plans
Free Custom
Free FreeMonthly $5.99/moYearly $15.99/yrLifetime $39.99
Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Documents
DocumentsWeb pages
DocumentsText
DocumentsTextWeb pages
Output
Text
Text
Text
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI PDFAI Summarizer
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI PDFAI Summarizer
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Summarizing
Document summarization
PDFs
PDF analysis
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PDF summaries
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Document chat
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Document data extraction
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Interactive PDF processing
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Summaries
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Article summaries
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Data extraction
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Website summaries
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Document summaries
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Local AI
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OCR
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Text extraction
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Document processing
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Document reading
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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.