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LightPDF

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FigureLightPDFPDF Pro
Price from$1.33/mo—
Free planYes—
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYes—
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published53
Spec score · PDF editors9.2 (#6)6.7 (#101)
Founded20182017
Free planYesNo

Plans

LightPDF

  • Free PlanFree
  • Monthly Plan$5.99 a month
  • Yearly Plan$15.99 a year
  • Lifetime Plan$39.99 a month
  • Lifetime Plan$39.99, paid once

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PDF Pro

  • Monthly PlanPrice not published
  • Annual PlanPrice not published
  • Perpetual LicensePrice not published

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In their own words

LightPDF

LightPDF is an AI-powered PDF service for editing, converting, annotating, signing, organizing, and chatting with documents. Its AI Agent accepts chat requests for tasks such as merging, conversion, watermark removal, page numbering, and compression. Other listed AI features include translation, image processing, data extraction, invoice generation, and document enhancement. LightPDF offers a conversion API for PDFs and office documents, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, HTML, and text. It is available on the web, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, with a Chrome/Edge extension. The free plan is web-only, limits files to 10MB, includes five cloud files for one year, and allows three AI Agent questions per day. Monthly and yearly plans include 1,000 AI credits per month; the lifetime plan includes 40,000 credits valid until used. Monthly costs $5.99 a month, Yearly costs $15.99 a year and includes a 3-day free trial, and Lifetime costs $39.99 a month. Premium features can be used on one device at a time.

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PDF Pro

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