The short answer
Cheapest at 5 seats a month
$0/mo
Sharly AI, Free plan
- Lowest starting price
- $4.89 · Wordtune
- Free plans
- 12 of 15
- Prices published
- 13 of 15
- Sales-led only
- 0
AI summarizers at a glance
Median starting price$12.25/moHalf start between $9 and $25
Free plan80%33% offer a time-limited trial
Buy online87%Sign up and pay without a sales call
Sales only0%Demo or contact sales to buy
How they charge
Vendors whose domain dates from 2023 or later start at a median $12.25/mo, 39% below the $20 of older ones (4 newer, 5 older, public USD prices).
What you'd pay at 5 seats a month
- Sharly AI Free$0
- Scholarcy Scholarcy Plus$9.99
- Wordtune Unlimited$9.99
- Recall Plus$12
- SciSummary Pro Plan$12.50
- Claude Pro$20
- Humata Team$245
Computed from each tool's published plans, allowances and overage rates.
Every AI summarizer, side by side
| Tool | Starts at | Usage price | Free plan | How you buy | Checks | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sharly AI |
$12.50/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Scholarcy |
$7.50/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Wordtune |
$4.89/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Recall |
$10/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 SciSummary |
$12.50/mo yearly | – | – | Self-serve | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Claude |
$17/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 3/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Humata |
$49/mo | – | Yes | Both | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Summarizer.org |
$5.58/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 AskYourPDF |
$11.99/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Jotform AI PDF Summarizer |
$39/mo | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| ChatGPT | – | – | Yes | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 ChatPDF |
– | – | Yes | Self-serve | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) |
– | – | Yes | Self-serve | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| QuillBot | – | – | – | – | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| TLDR This | – | – | – | – | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
The tools
Sharly AISharly is a web workspace that summarizes uploaded documents, answers questions across them, and attaches citations to answers.$12.50 /moScholarcyScholarcy turns academic papers, articles and other documents into interactive summary flashcards, with a library, notes, and export to reference managers.$7.50 /moWordtuneWordtune is an AI writing assistant from AI21 Labs that paraphrases, rewrites, checks grammar and summarizes text and YouTube videos.$4.89 /moRecallRecall is a personal AI knowledge base that saves articles, videos, podcasts, PDFs and notes, summarizes them, and lets you chat with them.$10 /moSciSummarySciSummary is an AI tool that summarizes scientific articles and research papers into structured sections.$12.50 /moClaudeGeneral-purpose AI assistant from Anthropic (Claude) with chat, file creation, code, and connected apps, sold as free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans.$17 /moHumataHumata is an AI tool that answers questions about uploaded PDFs and documents and summarizes them with cited sources.$49 /moSummarizer.orgWeb and mobile AI summarizer for text, URLs, documents and images, bundled with other AI writing tools, sold as credit-based Premium plans.$5.58 /moAskYourPDFAI platform to chat with PDFs and other documents, embed a website chatbot trained on your content, and auto-fill PDF forms.$11.99 /moJotform AI PDF SummarizerJotform's AI PDF Summarizer turns an uploaded PDF into a summary and lets you chat to refine it, as part of Jotform's wider form-building platform.$39 /moCHChatGPTChatGPT is OpenAI's AI chat assistant, sold as free and paid individual plans plus Business and Enterprise plans.QuoteChatPDFChatPDF lets you upload documents, videos or websites and ask an AI questions about them, with summaries and cited answers.QuoteGemini Notebook (NotebookLM)Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is a Google tool where you add your own sources and get answers, summaries and generated study or media outputs grounded in them.QuoteQUQuillBotThe only page captured is a Cloudflare bot-check screen, so nothing about the vendor is stated.QuoteTLTLDR ThisQuoteHow 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.