SMMRY vs TLDR This

SMMRY is a web service and REST API for summarizing text and other content. Its API accepts raw text, web URLs, or PDF content, supports more than 20 languages with automatic language detection, and offers controls for summary length and for excluding questions, exclamations, or quotations. The service also lists webpage and transcript summarization, file uploads, and a browser extension. API access uses an API key; JavaScript, Python, PHP, and cURL examples are available, while official SDKs are described as coming soon. Users sign up, generate a key in the dashboard, and purchase credits to use the API. The Free plan is free and includes 10 summaries. API pay as you go is $1, paid once, with credits priced at about $1 on average. Essential is $7 a month, billed $14; Advanced is $13 a month, billed $25. The site identifies students, academics, and knowledge workers as audiences it serves.

TLDR This summarizes articles and other text, with inputs ranging from a webpage address or pasted text to PDF, DOC and DOCX files up to 25 MB. Its AI generates concise summaries, while article extraction can identify the author, date, title, related images and estimated reading time. Browser extensions summarize webpages in one click, and a PDF chat feature lets students, researchers and professionals ask questions about research documents. Other tools paraphrase text in different voices and styles, filter weak arguments and speculation, and surface relevant points. A reading view removes ads, popups, graphics and other online distractions. The service also provides API access through a link to RapidAPI. TLDR This has a free plan and paid plans, including Starter at $4 a month. The Free plan includes unlimited basic summaries, 10 advanced AI summaries and up to 10 paraphrases as one-time allowances. The service says uploaded files are not opened unless requested and personal information is not sold to third parties. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest; deleted data is purged within 30 days.