Side-by-side comparison · Presentations & Docs
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant vs Claude Docs & Slides vs Quadratic
Everything that matters when choosing between them, in one place: our rating, what each can do, what they cost, and the trade-offs.
Comparing 3 tools, the maximum.
At a glance
Pick it if: Businesses that already live in Acrobat and want answers from contracts, reports and long PDFs without reading every page.
Pick it if: Anyone who already uses Claude and wants the report or deck at the end of the chat, ready to share.
Pick it if: Analysts, finance staff and founders who outgrow Excel and want AI to write the analysis in a sheet they can check.
Overview
| Attribute | Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant | Claude Docs & Slides | Quadratic |
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| In one line | Ask questions of your PDFs in Acrobat and get summaries that link to the source. | Ask Claude for a document or deck, then edit, share and export it without leaving chat. | A spreadsheet where AI writes the formulas, Python and SQL to analyse your data. |
| Pricing model | Paid | Freemium | Freemium |
| Starting price | $9.99/mo | $20/mo | $18/user/mo |
| Free plan | No | Yes | Yes |
| Works with Claude Code | No | Yes | Yes |
Rating breakdown
Our scores out of 5. The higher bar in each row is highlighted.
| Attribute | Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant | Claude Docs & Slides | Quadratic |
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| Overall rating | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Ease of useHow quickly someone non-technical gets value from it. | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.5 |
| FeaturesHow completely it covers its own job, and how well the pieces fit together. | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 |
| Output qualityHow good the results are before you fix them. | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Value for moneyWhat you get for the price, including the free plan. | 3.0 | 4.5 | 4.0 |
| Speed & reliabilityHow fast it is and how often it falls over. | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
Feature comparison
A tick means it does this today. A dash means we haven't checked.
| Attribute | Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant | Claude Docs & Slides | Quadratic |
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| Access & platform | |||
| Free plan | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app | Yes | Yes | No |
| Desktop app | Yes | Yes | No |
| Browser extension | Yes | No | – |
| API access | – | – | Yes |
| Teams & business | |||
| Team workspace | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise plan or SSO | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Connects to other apps | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open source or self-hosted | No | No | Yes |
| AI abilities | |||
| Works with your files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Understands images | – | Yes | – |
| Makes images | Yes | No | No |
| Makes video | No | No | No |
| Writes code | No | Yes | Yes |
| Runs agents or automations | No | Yes | Yes |
| Learns your brand or style | – | Yes | – |
| Works in many languages | Yes | Yes | – |
| Capabilities score | 9/ 17 | 12/ 17 | 9/ 17 |
Pricing
Plans as listed on each vendor's site when we last checked. Confirm before you buy.
| Attribute | Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant | Claude Docs & Slides | Quadratic |
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| Plans | Acrobat Express $9.99/mo billed yearly, or $10.99/mo month to month People who mainly want AI answers from PDFs. | Free Free Trying a document or deck. | Personal Free Trying it out or light personal analysis. |
Acrobat Pro + AI Assistant add-on $19.99/mo plus about $4.99/mo for the add-on, billed yearly Existing Acrobat Pro users. | ProOur pick $20/mo, or $17/mo billed yearly Anyone making documents or decks most weeks. | ProOur pick $18/user/mo billed yearly Individuals and small teams doing regular analysis. | |
Acrobat StudioOur pick $24.99/mo billed yearly, or $34.99/mo month to month Businesses that edit, sign and research PDFs. | Max From $100/mo Heavy users who hit Pro limits. | Business $36/user/mo billed yearly Teams that lean on the AI every day. | |
Teams From $29.99/license/mo for Studio Teams that share documents. | Team $25/seat/mo, or $20/seat/mo billed yearly Businesses sharing documents across a team. | Enterprise Custom Larger companies with security and hosting rules. | |
Enterprise From $20/seat/mo billed yearly, plus usage Larger organisations needing admin control. | |||
| Which plan to pick | If you edit and sign PDFs as well as read them, Acrobat Studio is the best deal because it costs only $5 a month more than Pro and includes the AI. If you only want to ask questions of PDFs, Express is cheaper. Use the free trial first, because cancelling a yearly plan early costs money. | If you already pay for Claude, you have it. Try it on Free first, and move to Pro once you're making more than the odd document, because decks use up a Free allowance fast. Team makes sense when colleagues need to open and comment on the same documents. | Start on the free Personal plan with a real data set. If you use it every week, Pro is enough for most people; move to Business only if you keep running out of AI credits. Monthly billing costs about 10% more than the yearly prices shown. |
Key features
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Questions people ask
Which is better, Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, Claude Docs & Slides or Quadratic?
They tie on our overall rating (Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant 3.9/5, Claude Docs & Slides 4.0/5 and Quadratic 4.0/5). Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant is best for summarising long contracts and reports and asking questions across a set of documents. Claude Docs & Slides is best for reports and proposals from research and quick internal decks. Quadratic is best for asking big data sets questions in your own words and pulling live data from a company database.
Which is cheaper, Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, Claude Docs & Slides or Quadratic?
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant: There's no free plan. Paid plans start at $9.99/mo. Claude Docs & Slides: There's a free plan, and paid plans start at $20/mo. Quadratic: There's a free plan, and paid plans start at $18/user/mo.
Which is easier to use, Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, Claude Docs & Slides or Quadratic?
Claude Docs & Slides rates highest for ease of use in our scores. Anyone who already uses Claude and wants the report or deck at the end of the chat, ready to share.
How we compare
Ratings are our own, from using each tool, across ease of use, features, output quality, value for money, speed & reliability.
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