Anonymous
100 requests / month / IP
Hosted PDF API · Edge runtime
The PDF API that runs at the edge, not in a headless browser.
I run several SaaS businesses, and kept hitting the same wall: every stack is on the edge, but every PDF library wants a backend. Invoices, filled forms, signed contracts, inspection reports, receipts — it never seems like it'll be a big problem, until I sit down to do it.
Hosted PDF APIs charge $0.05 to $0.20 per document and bill you for render time. Headless Chrome on Lambda works until it doesn't. So I built this once, as a hosted API, and made it self-serve so you can too: PDFops fills and merges real PDFs deterministically on the V8 edge — no headless browser, no Lambda layer, no per-document render tax.
Try it in your browser → Join the waitlist
curl · invoice-template.pdf
curl -X POST https://pdfops.dev/api/fill-form \
-F "pdf=@invoice-template.pdf" \
-F 'fields={"customer_name":"Acme Co","total":"$1,250.00"}' \
-o filled.pdfWhat it is, in four bullets
- Hosted PDF API, globally distributed. Sub-100ms response times wherever your traffic is. No region config, no VPC tuning, no warm-pool sizing.
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Three endpoints today:
POST /api/fill-form(fill PDF form fields),POST /api/merge(merge N PDFs into one),POST /api/waitlist(sign up for higher tiers). - Free during beta. No auth. No API keys. No signup. 100 requests per IP per month.
- Designed to be roughly 10x cheaper than incumbents when pricing lands post-beta. The unit economics work because the platform PDFops runs on isn't where the incumbents priced their margins from.
Try it
Zero friction. Copy, paste, run. 100 requests per IP per month are free during beta.
Fill a PDF form
No fillable PDF on hand?
Grab a sample invoice-template.pdf
— the field names match the curl below verbatim.
POST /api/fill-form
curl -X POST https://pdfops.dev/api/fill-form \
-F "pdf=@invoice-template.pdf" \
-F 'fields={"customer_name":"Acme Co","total":"$1,250.00"}' \
-o filled.pdf
The fields JSON keys must match AcroForm field
names that already exist in your PDF —
customer_name and total in the
sample above. Bring a template with named form fields you
authored in Acrobat / Preview / LibreOffice, or use the
sample to see the round-trip first.
Merge PDFs
POST /api/merge
curl -X POST https://pdfops.dev/api/merge \
-F "pdf=@part1.pdf" \
-F "pdf=@part2.pdf" \
-F "pdf=@part3.pdf" \
-o merged.pdfPlans
Coming from a different hosted PDF API? vs DocRaptor · vs PDFShift · vs PDFMonkey
Join the waitlist
Reserve your spot for keys (1k–10k/mo, free during beta). A few quick questions help me prioritize endpoints and lock in fair early pricing — nothing here is on the roadmap until I see real demand.