pdflayer Alternatives

pdflayer is described as 'Free, powerful HTML to PDF API supporting both URL and raw HTML conversion. Unlimited document size, lightning-fast and compatible PHP, Python, Ruby, etc' and is an website in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to pdflayer, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best pdflayer alternative is htmldocs, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to pdflayer are PDFShift, CraftMyPDF, DocRaptor and Pdfcrowd.

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  1. PDFBlade icon
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    Convert URLs and plain HTML into PDF files using a simple request. Customize file layout and store on Amazon S3 with a variety of optional parameters.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. PDFBix icon
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    Pdfbix is a tool to convert your HTML or URL to pdf. You can generate pdf at the cost of setting up your own server.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    WkHTMLtoPDF without having to manage setup/infrastructure. Converts html or urls to pdf with all the wk options you're used to. Free demo included.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    PlutoPrint is a lightweight and easy-to-use Python library for generating high-quality PDFs and images directly from HTML or XML content. It is based on PlutoBook’s robust rendering engine and provides a simple API to convert your HTML into crisp PDF documents or vibrant image...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • PlutoPrint is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to pdflayer.

    • PlutoPrint is the most popular Open Source alternative to pdflayer.

    • PlutoPrint is Free and Open Sourcepdflayer is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Create PDF files with CSS3 via Rest API.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Paperplane is a cloud API for converting web pages to PDF documents. Use the latest web standards to generate beautiful documents rendered using Chrome. Paperplane provides an easy to use API that's built on reliable auto scaling infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Pdforge icon
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    Automate PDF Generation with pdforge, using a modern no-code PDF builder, AI Agents that do the heavy lifting for you and an easy-to-use API, so you can generate PDFs at scale without relying on your development team.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Reliable and secure HTML to PDF convertor. Code examples for C#, Ruby, ASP.NET and PHP and more. Easy to use and amazingly fast, free of cost for small volumes and inexpensive for high volume.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
     
    • HTML 2 PDF Rocket is the most popular Android alternative to pdflayer.

    • HTML 2 PDF Rocket is Free Personal and Proprietarypdflayer is Freemium and Proprietary
  9. FPDF icon
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    FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.

    16 FPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Sable Doc is service which will host parametric templates and generate PDF (or XLSX) documents out of them with data which is sent in. Templates can be done visual document editor or in HTML5, CSS, images and JS with Handelbars template language.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Api2Pdf icon
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    An API for converting HTML, URLs, Office Documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) to PDF. Merge PDFs together. Wrapper for wkhtmltopdf, Headless Chrome, and LibreOffice.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Web2PDF.eu instantly converts any public URL into a clean, print-perfect PDF with full CSS support – no signup, no watermarks, fully GDPR/DSGVO-compliant, hosted in Germany, frontend in all EU-languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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