The short answer
Cheapest at 10 seats a month
$0/mo
Nitro PDF Pro, Nitro PDF Standard plan
- Lowest starting price
- $1.33 · LightPDF
- Free plans
- 12 of 21
- Prices published
- 15 of 21
- Sales-led only
- 2
AI PDF tools at a glance
Median starting price$14.99/moHalf start between $6 and $34
Free plan57%52% offer a time-limited trial
Buy online81%Sign up and pay without a sales call
Sales only10%Demo or contact sales to buy
How they charge
What you'd pay at 10 seats a month
- Nitro PDF Pro Nitro PDF Standard$0
- Smallpdf Pro$0
- Wondershare PDFelement Plan, manual renew (Single-platform)$2.67
- PDF Expert (Readdle) Yearly$6.67
- Xodo Xodo Web$7.99
- Foxit PDF Editor PDF Editor (, starting price)$110
- PDF.ai Ultimate$270
- eesel AI Managed support$5,000
Computed from each tool's published plans, allowances and overage rates.
Every AI PDF tool, side by side
| Tool | Starts at | Usage price | Free plan | How you buy | Checks | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nitro PDF Pro |
– | – | – | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Smallpdf |
– | – | Yes | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Wondershare PDFelement |
$2.67/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 PDF Expert (Readdle) |
$6.67/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 3/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Xodo |
$7.99/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Foxit PDF Editor |
$4.17/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 PDF.ai |
$10/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 eesel AI |
$299/mo | – | Yes | Both | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 LightPDF |
$1.33/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Denser AI |
$32/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Lido |
$583/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 2/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 ABBYY Vantage |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 2/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Adobe Acrobat (AI Assistant) |
– | – | – | – | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Amazon Textract |
– | $0/page after 1m | – | Both | 2/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 ChatDOC |
– | – | Yes | Self-serve | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Cisdem PDFMaster |
– | – | – | – | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Google Document AI |
– | $1.50/minute | Yes | Both | 3/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Klippa DocHorizon |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 2/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 PDFgear |
– | – | Yes | Self-serve | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Tungsten Power PDF |
– | – | – | Both | 1/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 UPDF |
– | – | – | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
The tools
Nitro PDF ProNitro sells PDF editing and eSigning software, with built-in AI tools for summarizing, extracting data and redacting documents.QuoteSmallpdfWeb-based PDF toolset with 30+ tools for converting, compressing, editing, signing and AI chat or summaries, sold as Free, Pro, Team and Business plans.QuoteWondershare PDFelementPDFelement is a PDF editor with AI features for chat, summaries, OCR, data extraction and e-signing, sold as subscriptions and perpetual licenses.$2.67 /moPDF Expert (Readdle)PDF Expert is a PDF editor app for iPhone, iPad and Mac with an AI assistant, OCR, signing and conversion.$6.67 /moXodoXodo is a PDF toolset with web, desktop and mobile apps for editing, converting, signing and managing documents, sold as subscriptions.$7.99 /moFoxit PDF EditorFoxit sells a PDF editor with a built-in AI assistant (chat, summaries, translation, redaction) plus eSign, document management, SDKs and APIs.$4.17 /moPDF.aiPDF.ai lets you chat with PDFs and offers APIs to parse, extract fields from, and split documents.$10 /moeesel AIeesel AI sells AI agents that handle customer support tickets, chats, blog writing and e-commerce questions inside tools like Zendesk, Slack and Freshdesk.$299 /moLightPDFLightPDF is a web, mobile and desktop PDF toolkit with AI features for chat, summaries, translation, OCR, data extraction and editing.$1.33 /moDenser AINo-code builder for AI chatbots and agents that answer from your own content (websites, PDFs, files) with cited answers and hand off to a helpdesk.$32 /moLidoLido is an AI document processing tool that extracts structured data from PDFs, scans and images into spreadsheets or CSV.$583 /moABBYY VantageABBYY sells AI document processing software for OCR, classification and data extraction, plus process intelligence tools.QuoteAdobe Acrobat (AI Assistant)QuoteAmazon TextractAmazon Textract is an AWS machine learning service that extracts text, handwriting, tables, forms and other data from scanned documents via APIs.$0 /page after 1mChatDOCChatDOC is an AI tool for chatting with PDFs and other documents, with source citations for answers.QuoteCisdem PDFMasterCisdem sells desktop software in utility, multimedia and document categories, including PDFMaster for editing, creating and converting PDFs.QuoteGoogle Document AIGoogle Cloud's Document AI is a developer service that extracts data from documents, runs OCR, classifies and splits documents, and summarizes them, billed per page.$1.50 /minuteKlippa DocHorizonDoxis AI.dp (formerly Klippa) is an intelligent document processing platform that turns documents into structured data via interface, API or SDK.QuotePDFgearPDFgear is a free PDF editor and toolkit for desktop, web and mobile with built-in AI features.QuoteTungsten Power PDFPower PDF is a desktop, browser and mobile PDF editor from Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax) for creating, converting, editing, securing and e-signing PDFs.QuoteUPDFUPDF is a PDF editor for desktop, mobile and web with an AI assistant for chat, summaries and translation, plus a separate e-signature product.QuoteHow this list is made
Every price is read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown and tied to the line it came from. Tools are ordered by what they cost at a typical volume, then by starting price. No one pays to be listed or ranked.