| Price from | $8.99/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 11 | 7 |
| Spec score · PDF Compression Software | 8.4 (#12) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Spec score · PDF compressors | 8.1 (#12) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Compliance | The security documentation states SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and AWS-hosted processing in SOC 1, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified data centers. | The company states GDPR compliance and says users can download a data-processing agreement from the dashboard. |
| Headquarters | 39 Mesa Street, Suite 108A, San Francisco, CA 94129, United States | The company lists Fritz-Reichle-Ring 2, Radolfzell am Bodensee, Germany. |
| Integrations | Official integrations include Make, Zapier, n8n, SharePoint, Airtable, Salesforce, Power Automate, UiPath, Blue Prism, Bubble and others. | The pricing page lists Zapier and Make.com automation, Google Drive and Dropbox file handling, browser extensions and mobile apps. |
| Licence | The PDF.co MCP server and n8n node repositories are public MIT-licensed projects, while the hosted PDF.co API is a commercial service. | The public developer and download pages provide no open-source licence; the product is delivered as hosted software and packaged desktop apps. |
| Rating on G2 | PDF.co is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 165 reviews. | 4.8 out of 5 from 7 reviews. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | PDF.co has a Trustpilot score of 2.4 out of 5 from 18 reviews. | 4.5 out of 5 from 315 reviews. |
| Security | PDF.co says it uses SSL/TLS and encryption at rest, and offers user-controlled AES encryption and decryption. | PDF2Go says it uses TLS encryption in transit, stores personal data encrypted, and automatically deletes files within 24 hours or on request. |
| Security controls | PDF.co documents TLS, encryption at rest, strict API-log redaction, IP allowlists, expiring links and user-controlled AES-128, AES-192 or AES-256 encryption. | PDF2Go says it uses TLS encryption in transit, encrypted personal-data storage, deletion controls, CDN and DDoS protection, firewalls and intrusion detection. |
| Support | The company says customers can contact engineers who built the product and describes its customer service as developer-friendly. | Support is provided through email, a helpdesk, FAQs and a knowledge base; the pricing table lists response targets from 24 hours to seven days by plan. |
| What it does | PDF.co is a low-code REST API platform for converting, editing, extracting, generating and automating PDF workflows. | PDF2Go is a browser-based service for editing, converting, compressing, merging, splitting and securing PDF files. |