LightPDF vs ChatPDF vs UPDF vs Smallpdf AI PDF

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

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LightPDF
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ChatPDF
Competitor 2
UPDF
Competitor 3
Smallpdf AI PDF
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool 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 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
1.8Mvisits/mo
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28.7Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 1.0%
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▼ 28.2%
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6-month growth
-4.4%
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-27.5%
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Global rank web
#34,433
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#984,401
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Avg. last 3 months
1.7M
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40.4K
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Bounce rate lower is better
51%
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42%
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Pages / visit
2.3
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2.1
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Visit duration
1m 31s
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19s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 88% · ● Referral 10%
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● Direct 90% · ● Mail 10%
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LightPDFChatPDFUPDFSmallpdf AI PDF
0477.3K954.5K1.4M1.9MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.7MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.5MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.8MUPDF · 38.9KUPDF · 51.3KUPDF · 45.4KUPDF · 39.5KUPDF · 52.9KUPDF · 63KUPDF · 52.7KUPDF · 39.9KUPDF · 28.7K10K100K1M10MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.7MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.5MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.8MUPDF · 38.9KUPDF · 51.3KUPDF · 45.4KUPDF · 39.5KUPDF · 52.9KUPDF · 63KUPDF · 52.7KUPDF · 39.9KUPDF · 28.7KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$1.33per 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 FreeMonthly $5.99/moYearly $15.99/yrLifetime $39.99
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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
DocumentsWeb pages
DocumentsTextWeb pages
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Text
DocumentsText
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
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 · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
9
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5
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Document summarization
PDF analysis
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PDFs
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Text extraction
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Data extraction
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Document data extraction
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Summarizing
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Document scanning
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OCR
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Document processing
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Community on aitoolstime
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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.