ChatDOC alternative with team spaces and checked citations
If ChatDOC works well for you alone but your colleagues now need the same contracts, policies and reports, ChatDocument is a ChatDOC alternative built for shared business documents. Everyone works in one space with roles, folders sync from Google Drive, SharePoint and OneDrive or Dropbox, and every answer names the document and page, with each quote checked against the stored file before you see it.
ChatDOC and ChatDocument compared for company documents
Both tools answer questions from files you upload and link each answer to the passage behind it. ChatDOC is sold as a personal reader with a Free plan and a Pro plan billed per 30 or 360 days. ChatDocument is sold per team, with seats, roles, connected drives and extraction to a table on the plans most companies buy.
| What you need | ChatDOC | ChatDocument |
|---|---|---|
| Trying it | Free plan with a daily question limit, 3 pages per file, PDF only | One-time demo on your own PDF, no card |
| Paid plan | Pro, billed per 30 days or per 360 days | Starter $49 a month or $24 a month billed yearly, Team, Business and Enterprise |
| Seats | One account, no team plan on its pricing table | 1 seat on Starter, 5 on Team, 15 on Business, 50 on Enterprise |
| File types | PDF, DOC, DOCX, scans, websites, EPUB, Markdown and TXT on Pro | PDF, Word, scanned PDFs with OCR on every plan |
| Citations | Footnotes that open the source passage | Document name and page on every statement, each quote checked against the file |
| When the answer is missing | Model answer, you check the footnote | Says the answer is not in your documents and shows the passages it checked |
| Roles and permissions | Not listed | Owner, editor and asker roles per space from Team |
| Connected drives | Not listed | Google Drive, SharePoint and OneDrive, Dropbox |
| Extract to a table | Not listed | Columns you define across many documents, XLSX or CSV, every cell linked to its page |
| API | Separate ChatDOC API product | API on Business and Enterprise |
ChatDOC details come from the plan table on chatdoc.com and may change. Check its current plans before you decide.
When ChatDOC is the better pick
ChatDOC is a good reader for one person. If you read academic papers full of formulas, want a document translated, or chat with EPUB books and web pages, its Pro plan covers that and costs less than a business plan. Its free tier also lets you try it without paying. A student, a researcher or a consultant reading on their own should start there.
ChatDocument is worth paying for when the documents belong to a company and other people act on the answers. A renewal date that goes into a contract tracker, a policy answer that 200 employees will rely on, a covenant figure in a lender update. Those need checked quotes, a shared space with roles, synced folders and a record of who asked what.
Six reasons teams move from ChatDOC to ChatDocument
- One space for the whole team. Put the vendor contracts, the handbook or the deal files in a shared space and invite colleagues as editors or askers, instead of each person uploading copies to a personal account.
- Checked citations. Each quoted passage is matched against the page before the answer appears, and a sentence that fails the check is removed. See cited answers from documents.
- Honest gaps. When the files do not contain the answer, you get that plainly, with the closest passages it checked. In a contract or policy review that is often the finding.
- Synced drives. Pick folders in Google Drive, SharePoint and OneDrive, or Dropbox, so the space always holds the current version.
- Extract to Excel. Define columns such as term, renewal notice, liability cap and governing law, run a batch of contracts and get a sheet where every cell links to its page. See AI PDF to Excel extraction.
- Compare versions and vendors. Line up 2 to 5 documents by topic with the page cited in each. See compare documents with AI.
What a team of five or fifteen pays on ChatDocument
Because ChatDOC has no team plan on its pricing table, five colleagues mean five separate Pro accounts and five separate libraries. On ChatDocument the same five people share one Team plan at $149 billed monthly or $74 a month billed yearly, with 8,000 pages a month. Fifteen people fit on Business at $499 billed monthly or $249 a month billed yearly, with 30,000 pages, an audit log and the API.
| Team size | Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Pages a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | Starter | $49 | $24 a month | 2,000 |
| Up to 5 people | Team | $149 | $74 a month | 8,000 |
| Up to 15 people | Business | $499 | $249 a month | 30,000 |
| Up to 50 people | Enterprise | $1,490 | $745 a month | 100,000 |
A 120 page master services agreement uses 120 pages once per billing period, however many questions you ask of it. A scanned page read with OCR counts as 3 pages. Full limits are on chat with pdf pricing.
How to move from ChatDOC in one afternoon
- 1List the documents you open most in ChatDOC and find where the originals live, usually a shared drive or an email thread.
- 2Create a space per topic, for example vendor contracts or HR policies, and connect the drive folder or upload the files. Scans are read with OCR.
- 3Ask the questions you asked last week and open each page chip to check the passage.
- 4Invite the colleagues who keep asking you about these files, as askers if they should not change them.
- 5Turn the questions you ask of every document into an extraction, so the answers arrive as one table.
Teams that outgrow a personal PDF reader
- Legal and contract teams reviewing vendor and customer paper, see AI contract review.
- Finance teams reading loan agreements, annual reports and board packs, see AI financial document analysis.
- Deal teams working through a data room, see due diligence AI.
- HR teams answering policy questions from one approved handbook, see HR policy chatbot.
- Property managers reading leases and amendments, see best AI for lease review.
FAQ
What is a good alternative to ChatDOC?
For business teams, ChatDocument is a strong ChatDOC alternative. It gives a team one shared space with owner, editor and asker roles, syncs folders from Google Drive, SharePoint and Dropbox, reads scans with OCR on every plan and checks each quoted passage against the page. For one person reading papers or books, ChatDOC's Pro plan is the cheaper choice.
Is ChatDOC free?
ChatDOC has a Free plan with a daily question limit, a total question cap, 3 pages per file and PDF files only. Its Pro plan is billed per 30 days or per 360 days and adds Word files, scans, websites, EPUB, Markdown and TXT. Check chatdoc.com for current limits and prices, since they change.
Is ChatDOC better than ChatPDF?
For one reader, ChatDOC accepts more file types on Pro and handles formulas, while ChatPDF is the lighter tool. Neither lists a team plan with roles and synced drives. If you are comparing both for a company, see our ChatPDF alternative for business teams and Humata alternative for teams pages.
Can I chat with multiple documents at once?
Yes. Put the files in one space and each answer can draw on all of them, with the document name and page for every statement. To see differences directly, compare 2 to 5 documents side by side or extract the same fields from all of them into one table.
Does ChatDocument use my documents to train AI?
No. Documents are encrypted, never used to train AI models, and the model providers we use are bound by contract not to train on your content. Details are on the security page.
Give your team one place to ask its documents
Try the demo with one of your own PDFs, then create your account and invite the colleagues who ask you about it.