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 $0.015 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 our most powerful and advanced API Tools, to tackle more complex document processing challenges for professional PDF workflows.

Here's the complete list of current pdfRest Pro Tools:

• Summarize PDF
• Translate PDF
• Flatten Forms
• Import Form Data
• Export Form Data
• XFA to Acroforms
• PDF to Word
• PDF to Excel
• PDF to PowerPoint
• Redact PDF
• Sign PDF
• OCR PDF

How to Access Pro Tools:

• Pro and Enterprise Plans: If you subscribe to our Pro or Enterprise plans, you gain full access to all Pro Tools at no additional cost per use. They are included as a standard benefit of your plan.
• Premium Plan: As a Premium plan user, you can leverage our powerful Pro Tools for a small fee per use. Easily track your total Pro Tools Usage for the month on your Account page, measured as the number of calls sent to any Pro Tool endpoints. At the end of the month, this usage will be tallied, and the corresponding fee, as outlined in the Features chart above, will be included in your next invoice.

The Cloud Only tag seen alongside certain API Tools marks that certain features are available to Cloud subscribers only. While we would like to provide all API Tools to all customers, there is likely some technical or legal restriction that prevents self-hosted customers using the Container or the AWS Marketplace product from using Cloud Only API Tools.

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.

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.

Choosing the best plan depends on your usage volume, file sizes, and whether you need features like Pro Tools or EU GDPR compliance. Here’s how to find your perfect fit:

Yes, we offer two ways to evaluate pdfRest for free. You only need one account to access both Cloud and Container trials. When you sign up for a pdfRest account, you will automatically receive a free API Key for our Cloud service, and you can opt-in to generate a Container License Key at any time.

1. Quick Start: The Cloud API Lab

Before deploying your own infrastructure, we suggest using your new API Key to explore the API Lab. This is a web-based playground where you can instantly test tools, validate processing quality, and generate code snippets directly from your browser - no server configuration required.

2. Full Evaluation: The API Toolkit Container

When you are ready to test within your own environment, you can begin a free 14-day trial of the pdfRest API Toolkit Container:

• Activate Your License: Visit your Account page to generate a Container License Key. If you already opted into a Container trial during sign-up, your key will be available there.
• Deploy the Image: Pull the latest version from our Docker Hub repository and follow our Getting Started Guide to configure the container with your License Key.

When you subscribe to a plan, you will receive a unique License Key to configure within your pdfRest API Toolkit Container deployment. Each call processed by the container triggers a license validation check with our remote server to verify your subscription status. No document data or private information is ever shared during this check - only the License Key is validated.

Each plan includes a specific monthly allowance of API Calls, and the count resets to zero on the first day of each new monthly billing cycle. Please note that once your plan’s monthly limit is reached, additional API Calls will fail until the start of your next month or until you upgrade your plan.

pdfRest supports two types of API Calls:

• POST Requests: Used to process files with each of the API Tools.
• GET Requests: Used to retrieve information from the server.

All calls that require license validation count toward your monthly total, which includes all POST requests. GET requests sent to the /resource endpoint do not require validation and do not count toward your monthly total.

We offer transparent, self-serve subscription plans designed to get you up and running instantly. These plans are based on monthly API call allowances, allowing you to choose the tier that best fits your current workload.

For organizations with high-volume needs, unique infrastructure, or specialized compliance requirements, we also offer custom enterprise licensing. Our team will work with you to build a tailored arrangement that aligns with your specific goals and deployment scale.

You can select a plan and subscribe directly above. For information on Enterprise options, please contact our Sales Team at sales@datalogics.com.

Free Trials are perfect for testing and validating your solutions for free before upgrading to a paid plan. This 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 that removes pdfRest watermarks, redactions, and other limiting factors in output results, allowing you to launch your solution without restrictions.

Choosing the best plan depends primarily on your expected monthly processing volume. Since the pdfRest API Toolkit Container runs in your own infrastructure, all tools are included in every plan. Here’s how to find your perfect fit:

The pdfRest API Toolkit on AWS is available through the AWS Marketplace with pay-as-you-go pricing that scales with your needs. You pay for the EC2 instance type you choose, and all listed instances come with unlimited API calls. This means you are billed hourly by AWS for the compute resources you consume, not by the number of API calls you make to the pdfRest API itself. You'll find the specific hourly rates for different instance types (e.g., c7i-flex.large, c7i-flex.xlarge) directly in the AWS Marketplace listing.

Yes, you can start a 7-day Free Trial for the pdfRest API Toolkit on AWS through the AWS Marketplace. This allows you to test workflows and automation without any software costs during the trial period. Please note that you are still responsible for any related infrastructure costs billed by AWS during your trial.

No, there is no per API Call charge for pdfRest API Toolkit on AWS. Pricing is based on the AWS EC2 instance type you choose from the AWS Marketplace, and all listed instances come with unlimited API calls. You are billed by AWS for the compute resources consumed, not for the number of API calls made to the pdfRest API.

Choosing the right EC2 instance type for your pdfRest API Toolkit on AWS deployment depends on your specific PDF processing workload. Consider these factors:

• Workload Volume & Concurrency: How many API calls will you make, and how many PDF processing tasks will run simultaneously? Higher volumes and concurrency require more CPU cores and memory.
• File Sizes: Larger or more complex PDF files will consume more resources during processing.
• Operation Complexity: Some PDF operations (e.g., OCR, PDF to Office conversions, Redaction, flattening complex forms) are more CPU or memory intensive than others.
• Performance Goals: What are your target latency and throughput for PDF processing?

pdfRest typically recommends c7i-flex instances due to their balanced compute and memory capabilities, suitable for CPU-intensive PDF operations. You can find detailed descriptions for each available instance type (e.g., c7i-flex.large for testing, c7i-flex.xlarge for small-medium batch workloads, c7i-flex.2xlarge and larger for sustained or production workloads) on the AWS Marketplace listing.

We recommend starting with a larger instance to verify optimal performance. Continuously monitor its performance (e.g., CPU utilization) using AWS CloudWatch, and if you observe consistent underutilization, optimize costs by scaling down. For high-volume, variable workloads, the CloudFormation Template with auto-scaling can dynamically adjust a pool of smaller instances to scale with your workloads.

The Cloud Only tag seen alongside certain API Tools marks that certain features are available to Cloud subscribers only. While we would like to provide all API Tools to all customers, there is likely some technical or legal restriction that prevents self-hosted customers using the Container or the AWS Marketplace product from using Cloud Only API Tools.