ReadDocs vs Perplexity Sonar API 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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Perplexity Sonar API
Competitor 2
Smallpdf AI PDF
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for ReadDocs: APAI PDF Reader87% ChatPDF83% Collate83% PDF.ai82% LightPDF82% Outrank81% Humata80% Adobe Acrobat80%
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3 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 Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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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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6-month growth
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Global rank web
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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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ReadDocsPerplexity Sonar APISmallpdf 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
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro £9.99/moBusiness £29/mo
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Pro €7.50/moTeam (2-100 users) €6/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsImagesText
Text
DocumentsText
Output
Text
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Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI PDFAI Summarizer
Development & CodeAI API
Productivity & OfficeWriting & ContentAI Document ExtractionAI PDF+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Document chat
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Document summarization
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PDF analysis
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PDF summaries
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Summarizing
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Interactive PDF processing
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APIs
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Document q a
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Document summaries
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PDFs
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Web search
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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OCR
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Official documents q a
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Summaries
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Web search summaries
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Agents
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Developer tools
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Development
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Document data extraction
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Meeting summaries
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Model routing
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YouTube summaries
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