LightPDF vs SoftMaker FlexiPDF
LightPDF
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| Figure | LightPDF | SoftMaker FlexiPDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1.33/mo | $3.33/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 6 |
| Spec score · PDF editors | 9.2 (#6) | 8.4 (#25) |
| Founded | 2018 | 1987 |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Product | LightPDF describes itself as an AI-powered PDF solution for editing, converting, annotating, signing, organizing, and chatting with documents. | FlexiPDF is a Windows PDF editor designed to edit PDF text, images and drawings in a word processor-like way. |
| Support | The pricing page says users can contact live chat or submit a support ticket and receive a response within 24 hours. | SoftMaker offers customer support through an online form where users can describe issues and attach screenshots or sample documents. |
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
SoftMaker FlexiPDF
- FlexiPDF NX$3.99 a month
- FlexiPDF NX$39.90 a year
- FlexiPDF 2025$99.95, paid once
- FlexiPDF NX16.99 PLN a month
- FlexiPDF NX169.90 PLN a year
- FlexiPDF 2025429.99 PLN, paid once
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.
SoftMaker FlexiPDF
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