PDFluent is two products with two licence models. The desktop Editor is free for everyone, including commercial use — no seats, no subscription. The developer SDK is licensed perpetually — pay once, own that version forever. Full legal text in the terms.
Editor — desktop app
Free for everyone, including commercial use
No seats, no subscription, no licence file to activate — the same download for personal and business use.
SDK — developer library
Perpetual — pay once, own that version forever
Tiers from €699. First year of updates and support included; 30-day evaluation built into every channel; 30-day money-back guarantee.
The sections below cover the developer SDK. All tiers include the full SDK — no feature restrictions. Tiers differ on the number of developers, locations, and products covered.
Evaluation — 30 days
1 developer · 1 location · 1 product
3 developers · 3 locations · 3 products
10 developers · 10 locations · 10 products
Unlimited developers · locations · products
The first year of updates and email support is included with every purchase. From year 2, you can subscribe to the maintenance plan to keep receiving updates. If you stop renewing, your existing deployment keeps working on the version you paid for — forever.
| Tier | 1 yr | 3 yr (−10%) | 5 yr (−20%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite / Plus | €399/yr | €1,077 | €1,596 |
| Professional | €699/yr | €1,887 | €2,796 |
| Unlimited | €1,299/yr | €3,507 | €5,196 |
All prices in EUR, excl. VAT.
Add-ons extend the usage rights of any base licence. They are activated immediately — your purchase confirmation email and order ID serve as the authorisation document. No separate licence file is issued.
Right to bundle and distribute the PDFluent SDK as part of a compiled commercial software product you sell to end users. End users of your product do not need their own PDFluent licence.
Includes
Does not cover
Active immediately. Your purchase confirmation email and order ID constitute the OEM Redistribution License. No separate licence file is required.
Right to deploy PDFluent in environments with no outbound internet connectivity. Licence validation is fully offline — no network request at runtime.
Includes
Active immediately. Your purchase confirmation email and order ID confirm this right. No separate licence file is required.
The desktop editor uses a different, simpler model than the SDK: it's free.
PDFluent is built on a foundation of low-level crates that are forks of upstream open-source libraries (lopdf, hayro, cff-parser). These crates remain under their original permissive licenses and may be used standalone without a commercial key. They are listed below for transparency. The PDFluent commercial value (engine, forms, signing, redaction, compliance, render, font, XFA) is in the proprietary crates published under the PDFluent Commercial License.
| Crate | Licence | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| pdfluent-lopdf | MIT | Low-level PDF object model — fork of lopdf |
| pdfluent-cff | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | CFF font parser — fork of cff-parser |
| pdfluent-ccitt | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | CCITT (G3/G4 fax) decoder — fork of hayro-ccitt |
| pdfluent-jbig2 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | JBIG2 image decoder — fork of hayro-jbig2 |
| pdfluent-jpeg2000 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | JPEG 2000 image decoder — fork of hayro-jpeg2000 |
| pdf-syntax | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | PDF syntax parser — fork of hayro-syntax |
| pdf-interpret | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | PDF content stream interpreter — fork of hayro-interpret |
These are the only crates published by PDFluent under permissive licenses. All other published crates ship under the PDFluent Commercial License — see /terms for the full terms.
Custom licence terms, multi-year agreements, and enterprise procurement are all available. Reach out directly.