Cloud API Pricing

When you sign up with an account and select a plan, you will receive a unique API Key that will grant you access to send API Calls to any of the pdfRest API Tools. At the start of each calendar month, your total number of API Calls will be tallied for the previous month, and you will be billed for your base plan plus any overage you may have accrued if your monthly API Calls were in excess of your plan's included amount. This count starts over at zero on the first day of each month.

pdfRest supports two types of API Calls:

• POST Requests: These are used to process files with each of the API Tools
• GET Requests: These are used to retrieve files back from the processing server or poll for request status and response

All calls that require your API Key count towards your monthly total, including all POST requests and GET requests sent to the /request-status endpoint. GET requests sent to the /resource endpoint do not require your API Key or count towards your monthly total.

The number of API Calls you may send with a free Starter account is limited. When you reach your limit, all subsequent API Calls will fail. Your allocated calls will reset at the start of the next month, allowing you to continue testing the service.

For all Premium, Pro, and Enterprise accounts, you may send an unlimited number of calls each month. API Call overages occur when you exceed the number of calls included in your monthly plan. pdfRest offers two options to flexibly meet your usage requirements: you can either pay a small overage fee for each call exceeding your limit (included in your invoice the following month) or upgrade to a higher tier plan with more included calls.

Your fee for each overage call is determined by your plan and can be found in the table above.

Our upload file size limits consist of two important thresholds: a soft limit and a hard limit.

• Soft Limit: This is the maximum file size included within your chosen plan. You can upload files exceeding the soft limit, but a small fee of $0.01 per megabyte (MB) over the limit will be applied to each API call containing such files.
• Hard Limit: This is a strict limit that cannot be exceeded. Uploading files exceeding the hard limit will fail with an error response.

This structure allows for flexibility while ensuring efficient processing within your plan. Uploading within the soft limit avoids additional charges, while the hard limit safeguards against exceedingly large files that may disrupt your service.

API Lab is your one-stop shop for getting started with pdfRest. It's a web-based interface built directly into the pdfRest website that can be used with free or paid accounts. API Lab allows you to:

• Test and Validate Solutions: Experiment with pdfRest's functionality in real-time. Upload your own files and test different tools and options to see how they work before integrating them into your application.
• Learn by Doing: Explore the various features and parameters offered by pdfRest. API Lab provides a user-friendly interface to discover the potential of different tools.
• Generate Code: Save valuable development time! Once you've customized your processing options in API Lab, it can automatically generate code snippets in your preferred programming language. Simply copy and paste this code into your project to get started.

Think of API Lab as your personal pdfRest playground – a space to experiment, learn, and streamline your development process.

Starter accounts are perfect for testing and validating your solutions for free before upgrading to a paid plan. This free tier produces output results that contain restrictions, including pdfRest watermarks for file outputs and redactions for text-based outputs.

Watermark-Free Output refers to a feature included in all paid plans (Premium, Pro, and Enterprise) that removes pdfRest watermarks, redactions, and other limiting factors in output results, allowing you to launch your solution without restrictions.

Pro Tools are powerful API Tools that require a Pro or Enterprise plan for unrestricted access. All plans may be used to test Pro Tools, but output will be watermarked, redacted, or otherwise limited with a Starter, or Premium account.

The current list of Pro Tools includes:

• Flatten Forms
• Import Form Data
• Export Form Data
• XFA to Acroforms
• PDF to Word
• PDF to Excel
• PDF to PowerPoint

File Retention Period refers to the duration for which pdfRest stores the uploaded input files and processed output files after an API call completes. This allows you to access or download the converted documents for a specific period. After this amount of time, files are automatically and permanently deleted for your security. We cannot recover files after they are deleted, so be sure to retrieve them after processing completes. Please refer to the table above to look up the file retention period for each plan. This value can be customized for Enterprise plans.

Standard pdfRest plans utilize a shared cloud infrastructure. While all files and data are protected and secured, processing takes place on shared servers.

Dedicated cloud hosting is an optional upgrade available with Enterprise accounts for businesses requiring a higher level of customization and security. This service provides dedicated servers for your API usage, ensuring optimal performance and isolation from other users. With dedicated cloud hosting, many settings are configurable to meet your requirements, including choice of hosted region.

The best plan for you depends on several factors, including your anticipated usage volume, input file sizes, and the features you require. Here's a general guide to help you find the best fit:

Choose the Starter Plan if:

• You're still testing, validating, or prototyping your solution and prefer to work with the free service that produces watermarked or redacted output
• You're able to accomplish your testing and validation with a maximum of 100 API Calls / month

Choose the Premium Plan if:

• You're ready to remove watermarks and redactions for unrestricted output
• You expect to send fewer than 1,500 API Calls / month
• You do not intend to use any of the Pro Tools
• Your input files are typically smaller in size (< 20 MB)

Choose the Pro Plan if:

• You expect to send more than 1,500 but fewer than 9,500 API Calls / month
• You intend to use one or more of the Pro Tools
• Your input files are typically a bit larger in size (20 - 60 MB)

Choose the Enterprise Plan if:

• You expect to send more than 9,500 API Calls / month
• You are interested in a dedicated cloud hosting package
• Your input files are typically much larger in size (60 MB - 1 GB)

Yes, pdfRest Cloud API is GDPR compliant when you submit your calls to our EU-hosted API.

We adhere to strict security and privacy standards, including:

• Data Protection: We implement robust security measures to protect your data, including encryption and access controls.
• Data Retention: We follow GDPR's strict data retention policies, ensuring that your data is deleted after the specified file retention period.
• Compliance: We are committed to complying with GDPR and other relevant data protection regulations.

For more detailed information, please refer to our Data Processing Agreement, specifically Appendix C, which outlines our security controls and practices.

Please let us know if you have any further questions relating to GDPR compliance or our security practices.

pdfRest offers a dedicated EU GDPR Cloud API for organizations requiring data processing within the European Union to comply with GDPR regulations. Here's how it works:

Dedicated EU Endpoint:

• To ensure your data remains within the EU, you must direct your API requests to our dedicated EU endpoint: https://eu-api.pdfrest.com.
• Requests sent to our standard US endpoint (https://api.pdfrest.com) will result in data being processed within the United States, which may not meet your GDPR compliance requirements.

Simple Endpoint Changes:

• All of our existing PDF processing tools are available through the EU endpoint.
• You simply need to change the root URL of your API requests, while keeping the endpoint paths the same.
• For example, to compress a PDF, use https://eu-api.pdfrest.com/compressed-pdf instead of https://api.pdfrest.com/compressed-pdf.

Data Processing Within the EU:

• Using the EU endpoint guarantees that all data uploads, processing, and storage occur exclusively within our secure EU data centers.
• This ensures adherence to GDPR data protection laws and minimizes the risk of non-compliance.

Data Processing Agreement (DPA):

• We provide a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), a legally binding contract outlining our responsibilities and obligations regarding personal data processing.
• This DPA demonstrates our commitment to GDPR compliance and provides transparency into our data processing practices.

Plan Level Access and Pricing:

Premium and Pro plans have a fee associated with each call to the EU GDPR Cloud API. There is no fee for Enterprise usage. Please refer to the Features table above for specific plan pricing details.

Yes, pdfRest offers self-hosted solutions for customers and companies in industries such as healthcare, insurance, payment card processors, government, and education sectors that require higher levels of security controls. We provide two self-contained products with no networking requirements, licensing services, or phone home functionality.

pdfRest Self-Hosted API on AWS

Available in the AWS Marketplace, these products allow you to deploy the pdfRest API in your AWS cloud while maintaining full control over your data and operations.

• PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API
• PDF Forms Pro Self-Hosted API
• PDF to Office Pro Self-Hosted API

pdfRest Container API

Our Container API product is a Docker container, available through our Enterprise Sales team, that enables you to deploy the pdfRest API anywhere, including on-premises data centers and public or private clouds.

• pdfRest PDF Toolkit Container API

These options ensure that you can meet the most stringent of security requirements while utilizing pdfRest's powerful document processing capabilities.