name: PDFShift FinOps
description: Financial operations guidance for managing PDFShift API costs, credit consumption, and optimization strategies.
url: https://pdfshift.io/pricing/
costModel: credit-based
credits:
  description: Each API conversion consumes one credit. Credits reset monthly on the billing date.
  freeMonthly: 50
  sandbox: Sandbox conversions (using the sandbox parameter) do not consume credits and are free for testing.
plans:
  - name: Free
    monthlyCredits: 50
    pricePerCredit: 0
  - name: Startup
    monthlyPrice: 9
    monthlyCredits: 500
    pricePerCredit: 0.018
    effectiveCostPerCredit: 0.04
  - name: Boost
    monthlyPrice: 24
    monthlyCredits: 2500
    pricePerCredit: 0.0096
    effectiveCostPerCredit: 0.03
  - name: Growth
    monthlyPrice: 39
    monthlyCredits: 5000
    pricePerCredit: 0.0078
    effectiveCostPerCredit: 0.025
optimization:
  - Use sandbox mode during development and testing to avoid consuming production credits.
  - Choose the Growth plan for large-volume workloads to reduce per-conversion cost to $0.025.
  - Monitor the X-RateLimit-Remaining response header to track real-time credit consumption.
  - Use the /v3/usage endpoint to programmatically query credit balance before batch jobs.
  - Export directly to Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage to avoid egress and storage overhead.
  - Use asynchronous webhook callbacks for large batches to avoid timeout-related retries.
  - Select page ranges (pageRanges parameter) to convert only needed pages, reducing credit usage on large documents.
billing:
  cycle: monthly
  annualDiscount: true
  currency: USD
  trialAvailable: true
  creditCardRequired: false