Top 7 OpenMode AI Competitors & Alternatives in 2025

Updated on 9/19/2025

Find more companies like OpenMode AI. We've shortlisted leading alternatives and mapped their strengths, pricing, and go-to-market focus.

OpenMode AI

Best for power users

Est. 2024 • 2-10 employees

A native macOS app that uses a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflow to turn PDFs into an interactive study assistant that answers questions, links answers to source text, and stores chats/notes as document metadata.

Starts at $0 / per user / month

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Competitors

#1

ChatPDF
Best for power users
Est. 2023 • 2-10 employees

Web-first AI tool for chatting with, summarizing and extracting answers from PDFs and other documents (consumer-focused, large user base).

Starts at $0 / per user / month

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#2

Humata
Best for power users
Est. 2022 • 2-10 employees

AI research assistant that lets users upload documents to ask questions, compare files, and extract citations, aimed at researchers and teams.

Starts at $0 / per user / month

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#3

PDF.ai
Best for power users
Est. 2023 • 11-50 employees

A freemium web service for chatting with, summarizing and analyzing PDFs with tiered paid plans for heavier users and API access.

Starts at $0 / per user / month

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#4

AskYourPDF
Best for power users
Est. 2023 • 2-10 employees

AI-powered PDF chat and summary platform with browser extensions and mobile apps, focused on students, researchers and quick document Q&A.

Starts at $0 / per user / month

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#5

Perplexity
Best for consumers
Est. 2022 • 51-200 employees

An AI-powered answer engine that delivers cited, research-backed responses and offers consumer and Pro/enterprise subscriptions.

Starts at $0

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#6

Elicit
Best for power users
Est. 2022 • 11-50 employees

AI research assistant (originally incubated at Ought) focused on literature search, paper summarization and data extraction for academic users.

Starts at $0 / per user / month

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#7

Scholarcy
Best for power users
Est. 2019 • 11-50 employees

Academic-focused summarizer that converts papers and long documents into interactive summary flashcards, highlights, reference extraction and exportable summaries.

Starts at $0 / month

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