SaveAI, listed in the Chrome Web Store as AI Exporter, is a browser extension that adds an export button to AI chat pages. ChatExports is a browser-based converter that turns the official data export you download from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and six other platforms into Word, PDF and Markdown files. They solve overlapping problems in genuinely different ways, so here is the specification-level comparison rather than a sales pitch.
SaveAI is better for grabbing one conversation you are looking at right now. ChatExports is better for turning an entire account history into documents you keep — once, without a subscription and without a server ever touching the text.
| Feature | ChatExports | SaveAI (AI Exporter) |
|---|---|---|
| How you use it | Open the site, drop in the export file your AI provider gave you. Nothing to install. | Install a browser extension, then click the export button on the chat page. |
| Browsers and devices | Any modern browser on desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. No extension permissions. | Chrome (158K+ users), Edge (16K+) and Firefox (3.6K+) extensions. Desktop browsers only. |
| Price | $10 one-time for one platform, $25 one-time for all nine. No subscription. | Free tier with daily caps, Pro at $3.88/month billed annually ($46.56/year), or $70.56/year at the monthly rate. |
| Free tier | None. Preview is limited to three messages per conversation before purchase. | Markdown, TXT, JSON and image exports free; 3 PDF/day, 8 Word/day, 8 Notion syncs/day. |
| PDF processing | PDFs are generated in your browser tab. The conversation text never leaves your device. | By their own FAQ, PDF generation is temporarily processed on their server, then deleted. |
| Platforms supported | Nine: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Poe, Grok, Copilot, NotebookLM, Google AI Studio. | 15+ including DeepSeek, Kimi, GitHub Copilot and Google AI Overviews. |
| Whole-account archive | Built for it. One export file in, thousands of conversations out, in one pass. | Page-by-page capture plus a sidebar for collecting chats across models. No bulk archive of an account history. |
| Output formats | Word (.docx), PDF, Markdown, and a ZIP of everything. | PDF, Markdown, Word, TXT, JSON, images, and one-click Notion sync. |
| Selecting part of a conversation | Filter and search across conversations by date, title and keyword, then export the matches. | Drag-select individual messages inside a conversation before exporting. |
| Works after you delete the account | Yes. The export file is yours, so it still converts years later. | No. The extension reads the live chat page, so the conversations have to still exist. |
| Ongoing cost over 3 years | $25 total for every platform, forever. | $139.68 at the annual Pro rate, $211.68 at the monthly rate. |
| Interface languages | English only. | 11 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish and Arabic. |
Yes. The extension is listed as AI Exporter and their site at saveai.net states it is the official home of that extension.
Plenty of people do. Use an extension for quick one-off grabs and ChatExports when you want the whole archive converted properly. They do not conflict, because ChatExports never touches the chat page.
Over any period longer than about seven months, yes. ChatExports is $25 once for all platforms. SaveAI Pro is $46.56 a year at their best annual rate and keeps billing.
Because we do not run inside the AI provider's page. You request the official export from the provider, which is the complete and unaltered record, then convert it locally. That is also why it keeps working when the account is gone.