# Lumin review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Cloud PDF editor with team collaboration and e-signing Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Lumin is a cloud-based PDF editor that works with files in Google Drive and other storage. It covers text editing, page tools, redaction and e-signatures, and lets a team edit and comment on the same document. Plans are priced by team and by how many documents are completed each month. - **Category:** PDF Editors - **Made by:** Lumin PDF Corporation (since 2014) - **Website:** https://www.luminpdf.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you handle many files, as Free allows 3 documents a month and Starter 10. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Lumin has a free plan, and paid plans start at $9 per month (Starter plan, 10 docs a month). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic PDF editing and e-signatures; 3 documents a month and annotation on up to 3 docs. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on every paid plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Basic PDF editing and e-signatures, 3 completed docs a month, mobile and desktop apps. | | Starter | $9 per month, starting price; billing basis not shown | Student plan: 10 docs a month, retained document access, Google integration and signing. | | Pro | $19 per month per team, starting price; billing basis not shown | 200 docs a month team-wide, advanced PDF editing, document collaboration and 5 agreements a month. | | Business | $99 per month per team, starting price; billing basis not shown | Adds member access control, domain control, sign-in enforcement, connectors, redaction and priority support. | | Enterprise | Custom | Sold through sales: storage controls, enterprise SSO, Microsoft integration, onboarding and a customer success manager. | Read from https://www.luminpdf.com/pricing/lumin on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Lumin before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Discounts for not-for-profits** (Nonprofit): Lumin states that it offers discounts to non-profit organizations; the amount is not published. Source: https://www.luminpdf.com/pricing/lumin - **Free for K-12 teachers and students** (Education): Lumin says it is committed to keeping the product free for K-12 teachers and students. Source: https://www.luminpdf.com/company/who-we-are ## Key features - **PDF text and page editing:** Edit text directly, add shapes and images, and merge, split, extract and rearrange pages. - **Real-time collaboration:** Teammates can edit the same file at once, with comments, tagging and view or edit sharing links. Collaboration is a paid feature. - **E-signatures and fillable fields:** Sign documents, add fillable fields and check boxes, and send or share forms with customers. - **Google Drive sync:** Changes can sync back to the original file in Google Drive, and storage can be restricted to one platform on higher plans. - **Redaction and scanned-text search:** Conceal sensitive content and make scanned PDFs searchable. Redaction is listed on Business and above. - **AI tools:** Includes a PDF summarizer, chat with a PDF and an AI agreement generator, available through Lumin AI. ## Good for - Teams that keep their documents in Google Drive - Freelancers who need occasional edits and signatures - Students who want a low-cost editor ## Worth knowing - Plans are capped by completed documents a month: 3 on Free, 10 on Starter and 200 on Pro and Business. - A document counts as completed when you share, download, print or sync it, and extra blocks are added automatically unless an admin turns that off. - Redaction, domain control and connectors such as Slack and Drive sit on Business, at $99 a month per team. - The pricing page shows monthly figures only and does not say whether yearly billing is cheaper. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Lumin is a cloud PDF editor with sharing, e-signatures and a free plan, with plans from $9 a month. Every plan is capped by completed documents a month, and redaction and connectors sit on Business at $99 a month per team. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is $9 a month and Pro $19 a month per team, so five people pay under $4 each on Pro; one person pays more than the $6.67 middle. Business is $99 per team. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free plan with 3 completed documents a month, plus a 7-day trial of each paid plan. - **Features: C.** Editing, collaboration, e-signatures, Google Drive sync and AI tools. Redaction and domain control are Business only. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record; a web app where you set up a workspace and connect Drive. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS, Android and a browser extension, with eight integrations. No desktop program. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Lumin PDF Corporation's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among PDF editors - Lumin's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 2 of the 28 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 10 of 28) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $6.33 for the category: 13 of the 19 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/pdf-editors ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Lumin you could make: documents. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 21 of the 28 other PDF editors grade higher. It costs $108 a year. - You could make: Documents: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Editing the text inside a PDF without breaking its layout. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Drive, Google Workspace and Slack among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.5 out of 5 from 945 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1367372862 ## Works with Google Drive, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, Chrome, Claude, Cursor, OneDrive **Tags:** PDF editing, Real-time collaboration, AI features, Documents ## Alternatives - [pdfFiller](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdffiller): Online PDF editor and form filler with templates and e-signatures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lumin-vs-pdffiller) - [Smallpdf](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smallpdf): 30-plus PDF tools in the browser, with Windows and mobile apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lumin-vs-smallpdf) - [Sejda](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sejda): Web and desktop PDF tools, free within daily limits or by the week. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lumin-vs-sejda) - [Xodo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xodo): PDF tools on web, desktop and mobile, sold separately or as a suite. 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