AI & Agents

PDF.chat

Last updated 2026-06-29 · benchmark checked 2026-09-15 · unchanged since 2026-08-15 — deterministic & reproducible

AI tool for chatting with PDFs and getting cited, page-linked answers.

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Legit.Show scored PDF.chat 92/100 on 2026-09-15, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/pdf-chat/2026-09-15

Is PDF.chat production-ready?

Legit.Show scores PDF.chat 92 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on PDF.chat (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 99/100
• Accessibility — 98/100
• Security — 60/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 86/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 508 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Professionals · Researchers · Legal reviewers · Business users · Students

Pricing

Free to start; Starter $5/mo (750 pages); Pro $19/mo (3000 pages); Business $49/mo (10000 pages); Page packs from $5 one-time (300 pages)

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from pdf.chat's own website on 2026-06-29.

Operator

Muddy Holdings LLC, as named in pdf.chat's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-15.

Put together from public information, without PDF.chat's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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