# Soda PDF > Windows PDF editor with an online version, sold by subscription Soda PDF is a PDF editor from Avanquest with a Windows desktop app for offline work and Soda PDF Online in the browser, which is how it is used on Mac, Linux and phones. It edits, converts, compresses and secures PDFs, runs OCR, builds forms, sends documents for e-signature and has AI tools for summaries, translation and chat. It is sold only by subscription, with no perpetual license. - **Category:** PDF Editors - **Made by:** Avanquest Software - **Website:** https://www.sodapdf.com - **Runs on:** Windows, Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Soda PDF's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off per license for teams** (Other savings): Soda PDF Team, for 3 to 19 licenses, has the same features as Pro with a 10% discount on each license. Source: https://www.sodapdf.com/plans/ ## Key features - **Edit and convert:** Edit text and pages, insert and extract pages, and export PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, HTML, PDF/A or images. - **OCR:** Recognizes text in scans and images so it can be searched, and edited on the Business plan. - **Forms and e-signatures:** Build forms with formatted fields and combo boxes, fill and sign them, and send and track signature requests. - **AI tools and translation:** Online chat with a PDF and an AI summarizer, plus translation of up to 1,200 pages a year on Pro and 1,800 on Business. - **Batch processing:** Create, convert, crop, watermark, add headers and footers and apply passwords to many documents at once. - **Business deployment:** The Business plan installs through MSI, Group Policy, SCCM, Terminal Server or Citrix, with self-serve license management and phone support. ## Good for - Windows offices that deploy a PDF editor across many PCs - Teams of 3 to 19 that want a per-license discount - People who need a quick free conversion now and then ## Worth knowing - Prices appear only at checkout, which could not be read; marketing pages show changing promotional prices, such as $49.95 for Pro against $110. - The desktop app is for Windows only; Mac, Linux and phone users work in the browser. - Soda PDF is sold only by subscription; there is no perpetual license. - AI chat is capped by plan, at 10 questions on Standard, 50 on Pro and 200 on Business. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Soda PDF is a Windows desktop app with an online version for Mac, Linux and phones. It edits, OCRs, builds forms and sends documents to sign, and the Business plan installs neatly across an office. But prices only appear at checkout, and the marketing pages show changing promotions, so it's hard to know what you'll pay. - **Value for money: C.** No confirmed price: Soda's prices only show at checkout, and its marketing pages show changing promotions, such as $49.95 for Pro against $110. With nothing confirmed it's a C, and there's no perpetual license to spread out. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The online quick tools are free for 2 files a day or 3MB a file. Editing, OCR, forms and AI can be tried but not saved or downloaded, so you can't really finish anything for free. - **Features: B.** Edits text and pages, converts to Office and PDF/A, OCRs, builds forms, sends for e-signature, batch-processes and translates. It covers the whole job. The AI chat is capped by plan, at 10 questions on Standard. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. It's an editor you install, or open in a browser, with nothing to set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows and the web, with Dropbox, Google Drive, SharePoint and Evernote. Mac, Linux and phones get the browser version only. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Soda PDF'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 - Soda PDF's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 6 of the 15 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on features (B, above 10 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0). 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 Soda PDF you could make: forms. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Forms: 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 Windows. 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 Dropbox, Google Drive, SharePoint, Evernote **Tags:** PDF editing, AI features, Forms ## Alternatives - [Nitro PDF Pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nitro): Desktop PDF editor for Windows and Mac with AI tools, billed yearly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/nitro-vs-soda-pdf) - [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-soda-pdf) - [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-soda-pdf) - [PDFelement](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdfelement): Wondershare's PDF editor, by subscription or a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pdfelement-vs-soda-pdf) - [Smallpdf](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smallpdf): 30-plus PDF tools in the browser, with Windows and mobile apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/smallpdf-vs-soda-pdf) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.sodapdf.com/plans/ - https://www.sodapdf.com - https://www.sodapdf.com/blog/soda-pdf-free-access-policy/ - https://www.sodapdf.com/mb/pdf-software/psl/?mkey1=sodapdf.com/mb/pdf-software&culture=en Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/soda-pdf Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).