The whole SDK under the AGPL, for everyone.
One organisation, unlimited developers.
One product, for organisations under €1M revenue.
One product, every other organisation.
€4,999 per year, on top of any paid licence. A reply within 1 working day. Without it, support is the public tracker and best effort, which is what most buyers need.
If your customers pay you for PDF functionality that PDFluent provides — a conversion API, a PDF/A service, an OCR service, hosted PDF tooling — that is OEM, not Commercial.
Building PDF handling into your own product is Commercial. Selling PDF handling to your customers is OEM. If you are unsure which side you are on, mail [email protected] before you buy, not after.
| Free | Commercial | OEM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every feature of the SDK | yes | yes | yes |
| Unlimited developers | yes | yes | yes |
| Use it in production | yes | yes | yes |
| Publish your own source under the AGPL | required | not required | not required |
| Closed-source internal use | no | yes | yes |
| SaaS where PDF is part of your product | AGPL §13 applies | yes | yes |
| Ship PDFluent inside a product you sell | AGPL applies | no | yes |
| Sell PDF functionality itself as a service | AGPL §13 applies | no | yes |
| Licence key or activation | none | none | none |
| Watermark or page limit | none | none | none |
| Priority support | add-on | add-on | add-on |
Both OEM bands grant the same rights. OEM Startup is the same licence at €2,499 for organisations under €1,000,000 in revenue.
A Stripe order confirmation and a licence document by e-mail, naming your organisation, the button, the product where one applies, and the term. That is the licence. There is no key to install, no activation, and no build that differs from the free one. A check in published source can be removed by anyone holding the source, so it would only ever inconvenience the people who intended to pay.
Nothing breaks. No release stops working, and nothing you have already shipped is affected. What ends is the right to ship further releases under these terms; from then on the AGPL applies, with its source obligation.
Licences bought before 6 September 2026 were perpetual and stay perpetual. Nothing here withdraws or replaces them, and there is nothing to migrate.
Included, and it always was. Nothing in PDFluent contacts a server, so running it with no outbound network needs no permission and costs nothing extra. It used to be sold as an add-on; that was selling something we could not withhold.