LightPDF vs Nanonets vs ChatPDF 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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Nanonets
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ChatPDF
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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 Nanonets
nanonets.com
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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 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
291.5Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 1.0%
▼ 8.8%
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6-month growth
-4.4%
+5.3%
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Global rank web
#34,433
#119,959
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Avg. last 3 months
1.7M
292.8K
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Bounce rate lower is better
51%
40%
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Pages / visit
2.3
4.6
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Visit duration
1m 31s
3m 27s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 88% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 85% · ● Referral 11%
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LightPDFNanonetsChatPDFSmallpdf 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 · 1.8MNanonets · 310.5KNanonets · 309KNanonets · 346KNanonets · 253.8KNanonets · 276.9KNanonets · 292.2KNanonets · 283.2KNanonets · 267.2KNanonets · 319.7KNanonets · 291.5K100K1M10MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.6MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.7MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.9MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.5MLightPDF · 1.8MLightPDF · 1.8MNanonets · 310.5KNanonets · 309KNanonets · 346KNanonets · 253.8KNanonets · 276.9KNanonets · 292.2KNanonets · 283.2KNanonets · 267.2KNanonets · 319.7KNanonets · 291.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
$1.33per month · free tier available
$100per month · free tier available
Free
€6per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeMonthly $5.99/moYearly $15.99/yrLifetime $39.99
Starter FreeGrowth CustomCredits Plan $100/mo
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Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pages
DocumentsImages
DocumentsTextWeb pages
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Data
Text
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Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Legal & FinanceProductivity & OfficeAI AccountingAI Agent+2 more
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & Content+4 more
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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Document data extraction
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Document summarization
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Summarizing
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Data extraction
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Interactive PDF processing
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OCR
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PDF summaries
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Text extraction
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Document processing
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Document chat
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Accounting
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Accounting automation
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Invoice processing
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Invoices
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PDF translations
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Purchase order management
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Research
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Academic research
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Agents
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Document reading
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Homework assistance
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Image data extraction
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Summaries
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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.