PDF.ai
Compare OCR pages per file as well as upload counts when choosing a PDF.ai plan.
- Starting price
- Pro USD 10/mo annually
- Free access
- One PDF and 100 questions/month
- Billing unit
- Plan or user subscription; API separate
- Platform
- Web app and Chrome extension
- Verified
- 29 Oct 2026
Overview
What you provide
- Provide an authorised PDF and select a question, summary or extraction task for that document.
What you get
- The service produces answers and summaries from PDF content, with plan-dependent OCR and agent features.
Choosing this tool
PDF.ai is suitable when a reader needs conversational access to a defined PDF set without building retrieval infrastructure. Pro is enough to evaluate a modest text-document workflow; its ten-page OCR cap makes a long scanned report a different purchase decision. Humata is a useful comparison for page-based overages, while MaxAI provides browser-side reading and rewriting. Unlimited questions on Ultimate do not eliminate its individual-file constraints.
A decision worked through
Annual Ultimate for two users totals USD 480 before tax. A sixty-page scan still exceeds its fifty-page OCR-per-file allowance, even though the plan advertises unlimited uploads and questions.
PDF.ai alternatives for pdf chat with file and ocr limits
Compare PDF.ai with Humata, MaxAI by the actual task, billing unit and operating responsibility.
| Product | Price / unit | Free allowance | Input → output | Key limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDF.aiRead profileOfficial source ↗ | Pro USD 10/mo annually | 100 monthly questions on Hobby | PDF text becomes conversational answers. | Pro OCR: ten pages per file. |
| HumataRead profileOfficial source ↗ | Expert USD 9.99/month | 60 free pages/month | PDFs become cited answers. | Expert excludes OCR. |
| MaxAIRead profileOfficial source ↗ | Pro USD 20/month | Daily-limited Free plan | Page selections become summaries and rewrites. | Pro: 300 smart responses/month. |
Setup & workflow
- Upload a small PDF and ask for a particular table entry.
- Test a scanned sample separately to observe the OCR allowance.
- Review file access and choose the subscription before inviting teammates.
Requirements & installation
- Measure the largest expected file and count pages requiring OCR rather than assuming every PDF is text-readable.
Limits & review
- Upload, monthly question, file-size and OCR-page limits apply independently. An app subscription is not a Parse, Extract or Chat API entitlement.
Your part
- Check extracted numbers against the original page image before copying them into downstream records.
Sources & verification5
This profile is based on official sources, not a hands-on product test.
Vendor descriptions and demos document advertised features. Editorial guidance is based on these sources.
- Official PDF.ai pricingpdf.ai
- Official PDF.ai productpdf.ai
- PDF.ai official referencepdf.ai
- Humata official referencehumata.ai
- MaxAI official referencemaxai.me
