# Nitro PDF Pro > Desktop PDF editor for Windows and Mac with AI tools, billed yearly Nitro PDF Pro is a desktop PDF editor for Windows and Mac, with an iOS app and a cloud workspace for viewing and reviewing in a browser. It creates and converts PDFs to and from Office files, edits and organizes pages, runs OCR, protects files and includes AI tools that summarize, translate and pull data out of forms and tables. Nitro sells it by subscription and, for Windows, as a one-time three-year license. - **Category:** PDF Editors - **Made by:** Nitro Software, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.gonitro.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, iOS, Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Nitro PDF Pro is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $15 per user / month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Nitro PDF Standard | $15 per user / month, billed annually | Billed as $180 a year: create, convert, edit, annotate and share PDFs, Nitro AI tools, the admin portal, integrations and round-the-clock support. | | Nitro PDF Classic | $270 one-time, per license, for 3 years of use | Core PDF tools for Windows only: create, edit, export, combine and split, and password protection, paid once for a three-year term. | | Nitro PDF Plus | Custom | Sold through sales: Standard plus SSO, domain control, Azure Information Protection, usage analytics and a success manager where eligible. | Read from https://www.gonitro.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Nitro PDF Pro before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Volume discounts through sales** (Other savings): Nitro's pricing page says volume discounts are available on Nitro PDF Standard and Plus for larger teams, quoted by its sales team. Source: https://www.gonitro.com/pricing ## Key features - **Create and convert:** Builds PDFs from scratch and converts to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and image files, and turns web pages into PDFs with working links. - **Edit and organize:** Edit text and pages, reorder, delete and rotate pages, and combine and split files, with an Office-style ribbon on Windows. - **Nitro AI:** Every PDF plan includes a document assistant that searches, summarizes and translates, plus tools that extract form fields and tables into Excel. - **Review and share:** Share PDFs for viewing and comments from desktop, mobile or a browser, and track activity on documents sent out for review. - **Office add-ins:** Create, protect and send PDFs from inside Microsoft 365 apps on Windows. - **Admin portal and analytics:** Every plan includes a web admin console to provision users and reassign licenses, and Nitro Analytics to track usage. ## Good for - Windows offices that want an Office-style PDF editor - Businesses that manage PDF licenses for many staff from one console - Buyers who would rather pay once for three years on Windows ## Worth knowing - The Standard subscription is billed yearly, $180 per user; the pricing page shows no month-to-month option. - Nitro PDF Classic runs on Windows only and covers a three-year term rather than a permanent license. - Sending documents for e-signature is Nitro Sign, a separate product from $10 per user a month billed annually. - There is no Android app; SSO and Azure Information Protection need Nitro PDF Plus, priced through sales. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Nitro PDF Pro is a desktop app for Windows and Mac, with an iPhone app and a browser workspace for viewing and review. It edits, converts and OCRs, has AI built in, and gives whoever buys the licenses a proper admin console. But at $180 a year with no monthly option, it's one of the dearest editors here, and signing is a separate product. - **Value for money: D.** Standard is $15 a user a month, billed as $180 a year, with no monthly option. That's the dearest end of PDF editors. Classic is $270 once for three years on Windows, which spread over its term is middling, but it's the core tools only. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial with no credit card needed. Enough to see if it fits, then you pay. - **Features: C.** Creates, converts, edits and OCRs PDFs, with AI that summarizes, translates and pulls tables into Excel, plus Office add-ins. But sending for signature is Nitro Sign, a separate product, and no form builder or redaction is on record. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. It's a desktop editor you install and start using, with an Office-style ribbon on Windows that'll feel familiar to anyone who lives in Word. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows, Mac, iPhone and the web, with Word, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox and Box. No Android app, which keeps it off the top grade. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Nitro's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among PDF editors - Nitro PDF Pro's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 0 of the 15 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 4 of 15) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $15 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.67 for the category: 10 of the 10 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 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 Nitro PDF Pro you could make: documents. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 11 of the 15 other PDF editors grade higher. It costs $180 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: Apps for macOS, Windows and iOS that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box **Tags:** PDF editing, AI features, Documents ## Alternatives - [Adobe Acrobat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/adobe-acrobat): Adobe's PDF editor for desktop, web and mobile, with an AI tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-vs-nitro) - [Foxit PDF Editor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/foxit): PDF editor for Windows, Mac and web, yearly or as a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/foxit-vs-nitro) - [PDFelement](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdfelement): Wondershare's PDF editor, by subscription or a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/nitro-vs-pdfelement) - [Soda PDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/soda-pdf): Windows PDF editor with an online version, sold by subscription. 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