AskYourPDF vs Explainpaper

AskYourPDF lets users ask questions about documents, get summaries, embed an AI agent on a website, and fill PDF forms with supplied data. Document chat works with uploaded PDFs or text documents; the website agent can draw on web pages and PDF, TXT, PPT, PPTX, EPUB, and RTF files. The site says that agent answers only from the provided sources. To complete a form, users pair a fillable or non-fillable PDF with data from another PDF, a text file, or pasted content. The embedded agent works with plain HTML, WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, React, Vue, and Next.js. AskYourPDF also offers a Chrome extension and Zotero and ChatGPT plugins. Its API supports PDF data extraction, document chatbots, searching and navigating PDF contents, and conversations across multiple documents. The Free plan allows one document per day, 50 questions per day, and three conversations per day, with 100 pages per document and a 15MB upload cap. Premium is listed at $11.99 a year, billed per month and billed yearly.

Explainpaper is a web-based AI reader for research papers. Readers highlight confusing passages to get explanations with adjustable complexity, support for more than 50 languages, and context from the full paper. Paper chat answers questions using the paper’s content, allows follow-ups, and can summarize findings; answers can cite sections so readers can locate relevant material. The product also generates outlines, extracts key points, and shows relationships between concepts. Its free plan is available indefinitely and includes unlimited highlight explanations, follow-up questions, Zotero library import, and basic AI models. Pro costs $16 a month and adds Math Explain for formulas and figures, advanced AI models, whole-paper summaries, saved highlights and explanations, and paper questions. The Pro trial lasts seven days and requires a card. Explainpaper says subscriptions are billed monthly or annually according to the selected plan and payments are processed through Stripe. The product describes its audience as researchers.