PDFeather is document software you call over an API: one POST request instead of a headless Chromium you have to install, patch and babysit. Render invoices, reports and contracts from HTML or URLs, then merge, compress, OCR or e-sign them with the same key.
25 PDFs a month free · No card, no subscription · Licensed software, delivered electronically
No sign-up needed. Rate-limited per IP · rendered by headless Chromium.
Rendering is the core of the software. Everything documents need after that (transforms, recognition, signatures) is part of the same product, behind the same key.
POST raw HTML or a URL and get back a print-ready PDF. Fonts, page numbers, headers, footers, page breaks and A4/Letter/custom sizes are all handled by real Chromium, kept current by us.
POST /v1/render HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer pf_live_••••••••
Content-Type: application/json
{ "url": "https://acme.com/invoices/42",
"format": "A4", "margin": "20mm" }
→ 200 OK · application/pdfCombine invoices into one file, slice a 400-page report by ranges, fix orientation.
Image downsampling and stream compression shrink scanned documents dramatically.
Turn scans into searchable, selectable PDFs with an embedded text layer.
Send documents out for signature and get a full audit trail of who signed and when.
Get notified when async jobs finish. Retries with exponential backoff built in.
Store reusable templates with your brand locked in, then render them with JSON variables: {{customer.name}} in, finished document out.
Time-critical render? Skip the line for 1 extra document per document.
Sign up and mint a key in the dashboard. Keys are scoped, revocable and stored only as hashes.
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Send raw HTML or a URL with render options: paper size, margins, header and footer templates.
curl -X POST api.pdfeather.com/v1/render
The binary streams straight back in the response. Nothing is stored on our side after delivery.
200 OK · content-type: application/pdf
No SDK required. It's plain HTTPS and JSON. Authenticate with a bearer key, POST your document, stream the PDF back.
curl -X POST https://api.pdfeather.com/v1/render \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PDFEATHER_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com/invoices/42",
"format": "A4",
"margin": "20mm"
}' \
--output invoice.pdfPDFeather is computer software. We write it, host it and keep it patched; you buy the right to run your documents through it. That is the entire business, which is why the card networks carry us under MCC 5734, Computer Software Stores.
The product is our own document engine: Chromium rendering, a PDF toolchain for merge, split and compression, an OCR pipeline and a signature flow. You call it over HTTPS instead of installing it, so there is no build to compile, no version to upgrade and no server of yours to patch.
A package is a licence to run a stated number of documents through that software, bought once at a published price. Nothing renews, nothing expires, no card is stored and no charge happens mid-request.
The licence lands on your account the moment payment succeeds, and the software is usable in the same minute. There are no physical goods, no shipping, no delivery address and no courier.
Seller of record PDFeather L.L.C., a software publisher registered in Wyoming, United States — merchant category 5734 (Computer Software Stores), NAICS 513210. Every identifier is on our company details page.
25 documents a month cost nothing. Past that you buy a software licence covering a package of documents, once, and use them whenever you like. No subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
25 documents
No card, nothing to cancel. Output carries our watermark.
$0.99 / 10 documents
The smallest of 75 price points. One document is one render, paid once, and documents never expire.
$0.06 / document
The Flight package is 39% cheaper per document than the smallest.
A licence to use PDFeather, which is computer software: our own document engine, hosted and maintained by us and reached over an API. A package buys the right to run a stated number of documents through it. You are not buying a consulting engagement, a physical product or stored value, and the card networks classify us accordingly, under MCC 5734, Computer Software Stores.
No. Nothing physical exists to ship. The licence is delivered electronically to your account the moment payment succeeds, and the software is usable immediately, so we never ask for a delivery address and no courier is ever involved.
One document returned by the /render endpoint, regardless of page count up to 100 pages. Failed renders are not billed: you only pay when we deliver a PDF.
No. PDFeather sells packages of documents, nothing else. There is no plan to choose, no renewal date, no minimum monthly spend and nothing to cancel. Nothing recurs at all: every charge happens because you started it, and your payment method is not stored for later use.
No. Documents stay on the account until you spend them. If you close your account with documents remaining, our refund policy explains what comes back.
The API returns 402 Payment Required with a clear message, and stops. Nothing is charged to your card mid-request, and no package is bought automatically. You buy the next package when you decide to.
Every published price point is a package, from $0.99 up to $169.95, and the pricing page has a calculator showing what each one buys. What you never get is a card charge per operation: you buy a package, and renders, OCR and e-signatures come out of it.
Only on documents rendered under the free monthly allowance. Anything paid with documents comes back clean, and removing our mark from a file rendered under the free allowance costs 2 documents.
Rendered PDFs stream straight back in the API response and are not persisted on our side. Source HTML is discarded after rendering.
Prices are listed in US dollars, euro and Polish zloty, and all of them exclude VAT. At checkout, Stripe Tax determines and adds the correct VAT for EU customers and issues compliant invoices. If you are buying for a business, you can enter an EU VAT number for the reverse charge where the rules allow.
Yes. Unused documents are refundable within 14 days of the package that granted them, pro rata, back to the payment method you used. The 14 days run separately from each package. Documents you have already used are not refundable, because the work was delivered. Our Refunds & returns policy at /legal/refund-policy sets out the calculation with worked examples.
Create an account, mint a key, and send your first request on the free monthly allowance without entering a card. Licence the software for a package of documents when you need more.
Document packages are a one-time software licence, delivered electronically. Refunds & returns: unused documents refundable pro rata within 14 days.