About
PDFMonkey is a PDF generation API that renders documents from HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON data through a Chrome-based browser. Developers create and manage templates in a dashboard, then call a REST API to generate PDFs from dynamic input.
The free offering includes a perpetual Free plan with 20 documents per month, 1 day of document retention, and no external images, fonts, CSS, or JavaScript. The pricing page also lists a 30-day Trial with 300 documents, 1 day retention, PDF share links, and a 2 minute generation timeout.
- Chrome-based PDF rendering
- Dashboard template management
- REST API document generation
- 20 documents per month
- 1 day document retention
- No external assets on Free
- 30-day trial with 300 documents
- PDF share links on trial
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a small but real monthly allowance: 20 documents, 1-day retention, and a 30-second generation limit, with some core features kept but external assets blocked. Compared with the cheapest paid Starter plan at about $5/month, it feels worth roughly $1/month—around 20% of Starter’s value. A 30-day trial is also available without a credit card, but the forever-free plan remains capped.
What's included in the free tier
- 20 documents per month.
- 1 day document retention.
- No external images, fonts, CSS, or JavaScript.
- 1 team member included.
- Fillable PDF forms included.
- PDF password protection included.
- 30-second maximum generation duration.
See PDFMonkey pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- documents/month
- 300
- document retention
- 1 day
- generation duration
- 30 sec
- 300 documents per month
- 1 day document retention
- Load images, fonts, CSS & JS
Pro
- documents/month
- 3,000
- document retention
- 7 days
- generation duration
- 2 min
- 3,000 documents per month
- 7 days document retention
- Load images, fonts, CSS & JS
- 1 extra collaborator
Pro+
- documents/month
- 5,000
- document retention
- Unlimited
- generation duration
- 3 min
- extra documents PAYG
- €0.006
- 5,000 documents per month
- Unlimited document retention
- Load images, fonts, CSS & JS
- Unlimited collaborators
- PDF Share links
Premium
- documents/month
- 60,000
- document retention
- Unlimited
- generation duration
- 5 min
- extra documents PAYG
- €0.005
- 60,000 documents per month
- Unlimited document retention
- Load images, fonts, CSS & JS
- Unlimited collaborators
- PDF Share links
Pricing extracted from PDFMonkey's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
