Last checked: 2026-10-18. Every competitor figure comes from that vendor's own pricing page or public pricing API (links below). Prices are in USD, monthly billing. Rendlet is our product.
Short answer: Api2Pdf costs the least at every volume we modeled, using its own estimate assumptions (0.1 MB and 2 s per PDF). Among the flat-plan APIs, Rendlet is cheapest: $7 for 1,000 documents a month and $19 for 5,000. Matching plans cost $24 and $39 at PDFShift, and $75 and $149 at DocRaptor.
| Rendlet | PDFShift | Api2Pdf | DocRaptor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100 docs/month | 50 credits/month (1 credit per 5 MB of output) | One month of free credit for new accounts | 5 docs/month (test documents are always free) |
| Entry paid plan | $7: 1,000 docs | $9: 500 credits ("Startup") | $1/month + $0.001/MB bandwidth + $0.00019551/s compute | $15: 125 docs ("Basic") |
| Mid plan | $19: 5,000 docs | $24: 2,500; $39: 5,000 | pay-as-you-go | $29: 325; $75: 1,250; $149: 5,000 |
| Large plan | $59: 25,000 docs | $99: 25,000 ("Business") | pay-as-you-go | $399: 15,000; $1,000: 40,000 |
| Limits noted by vendor | Hard monthly cap per plan, never billed for overage; 10–500 pages/doc; 1–2 MB HTML | Free: 15 MB max file, 30 s timeout | 2 GB RAM and 90 s per request; no rate, page or file-size limits | No extra charge for large or complex documents; overage billed per document |
Assumes the smallest listed plan that covers the volume. Api2Pdf costs use its own estimator assumptions (0.1 MB, 2 s per PDF).
| Docs per month | Rendlet | PDFShift | Api2Pdf | DocRaptor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $7 | $24 | ≈ $1.49 | $75 |
| 5,000 | $19 | $39 | ≈ $3.46 | $149 |
| 25,000 | $59 | $99 | ≈ $13.28 | $1,000 (40k plan) |