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Pricing & billing

Flat monthly tiers with a hard document cap. One document is one document — no credits to decode, no per-page multipliers, no surprise overages. Here is exactly how it works.

Free

$0/mo

75 documents / month

Hard cap — no overage charges, ever.

Starter

$9/mo

500 documents / month

Hard cap — no overage charges, ever.

Pro

$19/mo

2,000 documents / month

Hard cap — no overage charges, ever.

Scale

$49/mo

10,000 documents / month

Hard cap — no overage charges, ever.

How the plan works

One document = one count. A render is a render, regardless of page count — there are no credits and no per-page math.
Hard cap, no overage. At your monthly cap, renders return QUOTA_EXCEEDED (HTTP 402) with a clear upgrade prompt. Nothing silently keeps charging you — a cap is a stop, not a surprise invoice.
Prices are on this page. No sales call, no hidden fees. Annual billing is two months free.
The meter is the source of truth. The usage number in your dashboard is the exact number the cap is enforced against — one value from one place, so it can never quietly diverge.

Usage reset vs. billing renewal

These are two different dates, on purpose, and we show both plainly:

Your usage counter resets at the start of each calendar month (UTC) — the YYYY-MM period. On the 1st, used-this-month returns to zero.
Your Stripe subscription renews on its own anniversary date (when you subscribed), which is what the “renews on” date on the billing page reflects.

So a mid-month upgrade bills from your subscription date, while the document allowance is a fresh calendar-month bucket. We state both dates rather than blur them.

If a payment fails

Card declines happen. When a renewal payment fails, pdfmill does the honest thing instead of a silent lockout or a silent overage:

Your plan and its cap stay active during Stripe's automatic retry window (the grace period), and the billing page shows a clear “your last payment failed — update your card” banner linking to the portal.
Update your card and the plan is restored automatically the moment the payment succeeds — no support ticket, no manual step.
If the retries are exhausted, the workspace drops to Free with its Free cap — a clear downgrade, never a surprise bill.

Changing or cancelling your plan

Upgrade, downgrade, and cancel all happen in the Stripe customer portal — the same two clicks either way. Cancelling is exactly as easy as upgrading: no retention maze, no confirm-shaming, no pre-checked add-ons. Cancelling keeps your access through the period you already paid for.

Why we bill this way

The category's incumbents often monetise confusion — credit systems, page multipliers, opaque tiers, hard-to-cancel plans. Honest, legible billing is pdfmill's deliberate position. If your meter and your bill ever disagree, that is a bug — tell us.

See how this compares to credit-based tools on the comparison pages.