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Sejda
sampled: 3 of 4 assistants this week
Sejda lands a modest 16 out of 100 overall in our PDF editors tracking, with Claude the most generous at 22, ChatGPT at 15, and Perplexity trailing at 13. It shows up in 19 of 68 answers checked. Its strongest showings come on browser-based editing (named in 4 of 4 answers), free PDF editing (3 of 3), and subscription-free tools (3 of 3), plus fill-and-sign forms (2 of 4) and general 2026 roundups (2 of 4). It never gets a mention for redaction, AI summarising or chatting with PDFs, OCR, open-source tools, or Windows-specific editors.
this is mine claim it, free, forever. We also check whether ChatGPT and Claude can read sejda.com.
Who's talking about you
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 15 | 20% of answers | #3.0 |
| Claude | 22 | 45% of answers | #7.9 |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 13 | 20% of answers | #4.5 |
Questions you win
| question | named in | best spot |
|---|---|---|
| What's the best online PDF editor that works in the browser? | 4 of 4 | #1 |
| What's the best free PDF editor? | 3 of 3 | #2 |
| What's the best tool to edit a PDF without a subscription? | 3 of 3 | #2 |
| What are the best PDF editors in 2026? | 2 of 4 | #7 |
| What's the best tool to fill in and sign a PDF form? | 2 of 4 | #7 |
| Which PDF tool is best for privacy and sensitive documents? | 1 of 3 | #4 |
| What are the best PDF editors? | 1 of 3 | #7 |
| What's the best alternative to Adobe Acrobat? | 1 of 3 | #9 |
| Which PDF editor is best value for a small business? | 1 of 4 | #6 |
| What's the best tool to merge, split and reorder PDF pages? | 1 of 4 | #9 |
Questions you lose
| question | who got named instead |
|---|---|
| What's the best PDF editor for Windows? | Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF-XChange Editor |
| What's the best PDF editor for Mac? | Preview, PDF Expert, Nitro PDF |
| What's the best PDF editor app for iPhone or Android? | PDF Expert, Adobe Acrobat, UPDF |
| What's the best tool to convert a PDF to Word or Excel? | Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader |
| What's the best tool to compress a large PDF? | Adobe Acrobat, iLovePDF, Wondershare PDFelement |
| What's the best OCR tool to make a scanned PDF searchable? | ABBYY FineReader, Adobe Acrobat |
| What's the best tool to redact or remove sensitive text from a PDF? | Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF-XChange Editor |
| What's the best open-source or self-hosted PDF tool? | Stirling PDF |
| What's the best tool to extract tables or data from a PDF? | Adobe Acrobat |
| What's the best AI tool to summarise or chat with a PDF? | Adobe Acrobat |
Assistants cited 15 pages for questions in this category that name your rivals and not you. Claim to see them. See all sources for PDF editors.
In their words
- ChatGPT“Sejda PDF — Great if you don't want to install anything.”
- Claude“For quick one-offs: Sejda's free web tier (3 tasks/hour) does real text editing and deletes files after a few hours.”
- Gemini“PDF24 Tools or Sejda”
Closest rivals
- Sejda vs Preview17
- Sejda vs Stirling PDF17
- Sejda vs PDF Expert14
- Sejda vs Smallpdf18
- Sejda vs PDF-XChange Editor21
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