# Nutrient review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> PDF SDKs and cloud APIs for developers to build document features

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Nutrient, the company formerly known as PSPDFKit, sells developer tools for viewing, editing, signing, redacting and processing PDFs inside other apps. Its products include client and server SDKs, hosted cloud APIs billed by credits or sessions, workflow automation and integrations. It targets software teams, not individuals who want a stand-alone PDF editor.

- **Category:** PDF Editors
- **Made by:** Nutrient
- **Website:** https://www.nutrient.io/
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want an editor to install and use, as it is aimed at software teams.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Nutrient has a free plan, and paid plans start at $67 per month, billed yearly (Processor API Starter, 1,000 credits).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Processor API Free: 50 credits a month, with output watermarked "For Evaluation Purposes Only"; each cloud API also has a free plan.
- **Free trial:** SDKs: 30-day evaluation, no payment information needed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Processor API Free | $0 per month for 50 credits | Output carries an evaluation watermark unless pay-as-you-go is enabled; no card needed. |
| Processor API Starter | $67 per month for 1,000 credits, billed yearly ($75 billed monthly) | Pay-as-you-go credits after the allowance run $0.09 each. Yearly total $804. |
| Processor API Growth | $247 per month for 5,000 credits, billed yearly ($275 billed monthly) | Extra credits at $0.066 each. Yearly total $2,964. |
| Processor API Pro | $399 per month for 10,000 credits, billed yearly ($445 billed monthly) | Extra credits at $0.0534 each. Yearly total $4,788. |
| SDKs | Custom | Annual or multiyear licences quoted by sales, based on components, platforms and deployment. |

Read from https://www.nutrient.io/api/pricing/processor-api/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Nutrient before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 10% with yearly billing on the Processor API** (Annual discount): The Processor API pricing page marks yearly billing as a 10% saving over monthly billing. Source: https://www.nutrient.io/api/pricing/processor-api/

## Key features

- **Client SDKs:** Embed viewing and annotation in web, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native and MAUI apps, with forms, signatures and redaction as add-ons.
- **Server SDKs:** Convert, render and manipulate documents from .NET, Java, Python or Node.js back ends.
- **Processor API:** Hosted API to convert, merge, OCR, redact and watermark documents, priced in credits per operation.
- **Data Extraction API:** Parses PDFs, scans, images and Office files into structured output and extracts fields to a schema.
- **Viewer and Accessibility APIs:** A browser viewer priced per session, and auto-tagging with PDF/UA validation for accessible documents.
- **Workflow and integrations:** Workflow automation editions plus plans for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, HubSpot and ServiceNow.

## Good for

- Developers adding PDF viewing or editing to their own product
- Teams automating document conversion or extraction through an API
- Enterprises that need a licensed, supported SDK

## Worth knowing

- Aimed at software teams; it is not a consumer PDF editor you install and use directly.
- SDK prices are not published; a quote comes from the sales team after scoping.
- The Processor API free plan watermarks its output, and plans above 10,000 credits a month are custom.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Nutrient, once PSPDFKit, sells SDKs and cloud APIs for viewing, editing, signing and processing PDFs inside other software. It is a tool for developers, SDK prices come only from sales, and the free API plan watermarks its output.

- **Value for money: C.** The Processor API starts at $67 a month for 1,000 credits, and the SDKs are a quote. That is above the PDF category's $36 dearest tenth, but this is a developer product, and Apryse starts at $1,500.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** The Processor API free plan gives 50 credits a month with a watermark, and SDKs have a 30-day evaluation with no payment details.
- **Features: B.** Client and server SDKs, a Processor API, data extraction, viewer and accessibility APIs, and workflow tools. The listing shows no gap for what it is built for.
- **Ease of use: D.** No store rating is on record, and using it means writing code against an API or SDK.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android SDKs, with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, HubSpot and ServiceNow listed. No desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Nutrient's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among PDF editors

- Nutrient's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 5 of the 45 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 8.
- It stands best on features (B, above 27 of 45) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $67 a month, against a middle price of $7.99 for the category: 25 of the 26 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 16 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.** To replace Nutrient you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 32 of the 45 other PDF editors grade higher. It costs $804 a year.

- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- 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: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

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 365, Salesforce, HubSpot, ServiceNow, Nintex

**Tags:** PDF editing, Public API, AI features, Workflow automation

## Alternatives

- [Apryse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apryse): Document SDKs for viewing, editing, signing and converting PDFs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apryse-vs-nutrient)
- [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-nutrient)
- [Xodo PDF Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdf-studio): Offline PDF editor for Windows, Mac and Linux, formerly Qoppa. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/nutrient-vs-pdf-studio)
- [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-nutrient)
- [callas pdfToolbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/callas-pdftoolbox): PDF preflight and correction for print production, desktop to server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/callas-pdftoolbox-vs-nutrient)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://www.nutrient.io/
- https://www.nutrient.io/pricing/
- https://www.nutrient.io/api/pricing/processor-api/
- https://www.nutrient.io/sdk/pricing/
- https://www.nutrient.io/sdk/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/nutrient
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