PDFPipe

Code in. Document out.

Markup goes in. Paper comes out.

A document API for developers and agents. One request turns your markup into a pixel-perfect PDF: invoices, reports, certificates, statements. No print server to babysit on your own machines.

Get your API key →Try it live, no signup

500 free documents a month. No card to start.

POST /v1/pdf
curl -X POST https://api.pdfpipe.xyz/v1/pdf \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pp_live_…" \
  -d '{"html":"<h1>Invoice #4012</h1>…", "options":{"format":"A4"}}' \
  -o invoice.pdf
< 200 OK·application/pdf·18,204 bytes

Invoice

#4012

A

BILLED TO

Acme Corp

14 Harbour Road

ISSUED

12 June 2026

Due in 14 days

Design retainer$2,400
Hosting$60
Total due$2,460

Rendered by PDFPipe · pixel-perfect · A4

The render console

Edit the source. Watch it render.

This runs against the live API, right now. Change the markup on the left, render the document on the right. Ten free renders a day, no account needed.

render consoleapi.pdfpipe.xyz/v1/demo
editable
Output · PDF
↦

Hit Render to see your PDF appear here.

The pipeline

One call in. A rendered document out.

No print servers, no font wrangling, no queue to operate at month-end.

  1. 01

    SEND

    POST your HTML, a URL, or a saved template with JSON data. Plain curl, or the Node and Python helpers.

  2. 02

    RENDER

    We render in an isolated, locked-down environment. Fonts, page breaks, headers, and footers are handled for you.

  3. 03

    RETURN

    A hosted PDF URL comes back in about a second, or a webhook for big batches.

  4. 04

    KEEP

    Documents stay retrievable for years. Re-download or stream them whenever you need.

Spec sheet

Built like infrastructure you can actually trust.

Four things matter when documents are part of your product: how they look, what they cost, how safe the render is, and whether your agents can wire it up unattended.

500 documents a month, free, forever. Ten times the usual allowance, because side projects deserve real limits.

  1. 01 / OUTPUT

    Pixel-perfect page geometry

    Real A4 or Letter, true margins, repeating headers and footers, page numbers, embedded fonts. It looks printed because it is rendered like print, not screenshotted.

    A4 · Letter · customheaders · footersembedded fonts
  2. 02 / TRUST

    Flat pricing, no surprises

    A document is a document. No credits, no size multipliers, no overage ambushes. The number on this page is the number on your card, every month.

    no creditsno multiplierscancel anytime
  3. 03 / SECURITY

    Sandboxed by default

    Each render runs isolated, with no credentials and no route to private networks. Document services are a classic attack target. Ours is built like one.

    isolated renderno egressno stored secrets
  4. 04 / AGENTS

    Built for AI agents

    A first-class agent integration and docs a copilot can wire up in one shot. When your assistant adds invoicing, it reaches for this.

    one-shot setupstructured errorsidempotent calls
Pricing · live now

One price. As many documents as you said.

Pick a tier, get your key the moment payment clears, render in minutes. Every plan includes the full API, templates, webhooks, and the document archive.

Hobby

$0 /mo

500 docs / mo

free per document

Try free

Starter

$19 /mo

3,000 docs / mo

~ $0.0063 / doc

Subscribe

Growth

Popular

$49 /mo

15,000 docs / mo

~ $0.0033 / doc

Subscribe

Scale

$99 /mo

50,000 docs / mo

~ $0.0020 / doc

Subscribe

Enterprise · Pay as you go

$99 + $0.0015 per extra document

The $99 covers your first 50,000 documents each month (that is the Scale plan). Every document after that is metered at $0.0015.

  • · Metered monthly, pay only for what you render
  • · No caps, no contracts, cancel whenever
  • · 99.9% uptime SLA
  • · Data residency and retention to your spec
  • · DPA, security review, vendor forms handled
  • · Invoice billing (rendered by our own API)
Fair questions

Before you wire it in.

Can I not just run a headless browser myself?

You can, and many do, until the 2 a.m. page where it leaked memory and took checkout down with it. We run the browsers, queues, retries, and font rendering so your team ships product instead of operating print infrastructure.

How is this different from converter sites?

Those are for a person converting one file. PDFPipe is for software that creates documents on its own: every order, every signup, every month-end, with data filled in and nobody clicking anything.

Is it actually live?

Yes. Subscribe, get a key, render your first PDF in minutes. Or try the playground free with no signup at all.

Is there a template editor?

Coming soon: design an invoice or certificate once in the browser, then generate thousands of personalized copies through the API. The API is fully usable today.

A note from the founder

I build document pipelines for a living, and every company I have worked with ends up with the same haunted corner of the codebase: the PDF service. Nobody wrote it on purpose. Nobody wants to touch it. It falls over on the last day of the month, exactly when finance needs it.

PDFPipe is me fixing that once, properly, for everyone. Small team, no investors to impress, no plan to get acquired and sunset your integration. If it ever shuts down, you get a year of notice and an export button. In writing.

Questions go straight to hello@pdfpipe.xyz. I answer everything myself, usually same day.

JJJohinFounder · Mumbai, India