Plans

One credit is one PDF page, minimum one per job. Every key starts on the free tier, which is 100 of them a month and stops dead when they run out.

These are limits, not a checkout

PaperPony is in early access. There is no payment, no card on file and nothing to subscribe to. What the four plans below describe is what the API already enforces: credits, rate limits and how long output lives. The numbers are real, the buying is not.

Access comes from asking for a key. Say what volume you expect and which of these shapes fits, and it is set on the account by hand.

Free

$0 forever

100 pages a month

Output is watermarked, and renders run with JavaScript disabled.

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Starter

$29 per month

2,000 pages a month

No watermark. Inline scripts allowed.

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Growth

$99 per month

10,000 pages a month

For products that render on every customer action.

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Scale

$299 per month

50,000 pages a month

Batch runs and month-end billing cycles.

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Compared

	Free	Starter	Growth	Scale
Credits included	100	2,000	10,000	50,000
Overage	None. Renders stop until the period resets.	$0.010 per page	$0.008 per page	$0.005 per page
Rate limit	10 / min	60 / min	300 / min	1,000 / min
File retention	24 hours	7 days	30 days	30 days

Questions

What is a credit?: One page of PDF. A two-page invoice costs two, with a minimum of one per job. Failed renders and timeouts cost nothing, because the charge is written in the same database transaction as the usage row and a render that produced no file never gets there.
What happens when I run out?: Renders stop until the period resets. It is a hard stop, and since there is no payment there is no version of this that produces an invoice. The overage column describes what the rates would be, not something being charged.
Can I pay for a plan yet?: No. Ask for a key, say what volume you expect, and the limits are set on your account by hand. When checkout does open you will not have to move anything.
Are rate limits per key?: Per account. Issuing a second key does not double your limit, which is deliberate: a limit you can raise by asking for more keys is not a limit, and it would stop being a number you can reason about.
How long do my files stay?: For the retention on your plan: 24 hours on Free, 7 days on Starter, 30 on Growth and Scale. The URL in the response expires sooner than that on the longer plans, because SigV4 will not sign for more than seven days. Reading GET /v1/jobs/:id signs a fresh one every time, so holding on to the job id is enough.
Does the invoice generator count against my plan?: No. It needs no account, so there is nothing for it to count against. Its renders are queued behind paying customers on a service account of our own.

Try it without any of this

The invoice generator uses the same renderer and needs no account, and the quickstart gets you a PDF from the API in five minutes on the free tier.