LightPDF vs Visual Studio Code vs OpenCode 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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Visual Studio Code
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OpenCode
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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 Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and now includes built-in AI agents.
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Competitor OpenCode
opencode.ai
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that helps developers write code in the terminal, an IDE or a desktop app.
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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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MoM change
▲ 1.0%
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6-month growth
-4.4%
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Global rank web
#34,433
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Avg. last 3 months
1.7M
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Bounce rate lower is better
51%
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Pages / visit
2.3
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Visit duration
1m 31s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 88% · ● Referral 10%
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LightPDFVisual Studio CodeOpenCodeSmallpdf 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 · 1.8M1M10MLightPDF · 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
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Starting price
$1.33per month · free tier available
Free
Free
€6per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeMonthly $5.99/moYearly $15.99/yrLifetime $39.99
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Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pages
CodeText
CodeText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Code
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Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
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Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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PDF analysis
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Document summarization
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PDFs
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Summarizing
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Document data extraction
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Developer tools
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Coding in VS Code
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Data extraction
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Document chat
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Vs code
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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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Debugging
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Development
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Document processing
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Local AI
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