ReadDocs vs Gemini CLI 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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ReadDocs
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Gemini CLI
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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 ReadDocs
readdocs.co.uk
Upload a PDF contract and ReadDocs spits out a one-minute summary, bullet points, and answers to specific questions you ask
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Competitor Gemini CLI
github.com
It can query and edit large codebases, generate new apps from PDFs, images, or sketches using multimodal input, and debug problems when you describe them in plain language.
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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
744visits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 141.6%
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Avg. last 3 months
384
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Bounce rate lower is better
39%
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Pages / visit
1.1
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ReadDocsGemini CLIChatPDFSmallpdf AI PDF
0186372558744ReadDocs · 101ReadDocs · 308ReadDocs · 7441001KReadDocs · 101ReadDocs · 308ReadDocs · 744Feb '26MarApr
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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€6per month · free tier available
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Free trial
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Plans
Free FreePro £9.99/moBusiness £29/mo
Free (personal Google account) Free
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Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsImagesText
CodeDocumentsImagesText
DocumentsTextWeb pages
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Code
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Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI PDFAI Summarizer
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
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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Document summarization
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Interactive PDF processing
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PDF summaries
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Summarizing
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Document chat
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PDFs
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Summaries
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Coding
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Document summaries
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Agents
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OCR
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PDF translations
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Research
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Academic research
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Code analysis
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Debugging
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Developer tools
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Development
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Document data extraction
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Document reading
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Homework assistance
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Meeting summaries
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YouTube 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.