Do you charge for failed requests?

No. Not for a request we rejected, not for an error on our side, and not when PDF compression cannot make your file smaller. In that case you get your original file back.

Card payment and self-serve sign-up are not open yet. Access is by request, and prepaid credit is arranged directly when your key is issued.

Every price, in full

Q: Is there a monthly fee?

No. You pay per call from prepaid credit. There is no subscription, no minimum and no seat count.

Q: What does a batch cost when some images fail?

You are charged only for the images that succeeded. One bad image never fails the rest of the batch.

There is no sales call and no tier to guess at. You pay per call from prepaid credit, and each response tells you what that call cost.

Operation	Price	Unit
PDF compression, up to 25 MB	$0.02	per document
PDF compression, 25 to 200 MB	$0.04	per document
PDF quality verification (SSIM), optional	+$0.005	per document
Image optimization	$0.0008	per image
Image batch	$0.0008	per image that succeeded, no batch surcharge
JSON to Excel	$0.005	per file
JSON to Excel, cells	$0.00002	per 1,000 cells, rounded up

A spreadsheet of 5,000 rows and 18 columns is 90,000 cells: $0.005 for the file plus 90 times $0.00002, which is $0.0068. A 59-page, 27.2 MB report compressed to 5.1 MB cost $0.04. A batch of 250 images cost $0.20.

Estimate your own month

Your estimateper month

PDF compression: $0.00
Image optimization: $0.00
JSON to Excel: $0.00
Total: $0.00

Calculated in your browser from the published price list. Calls that fail or do not help bring this down, never up.

When the bill reads $0.00

A charge has to be explainable. If the work did not happen, or did not help, there is nothing to explain.

The PDF could not be made smaller. You get your original file back.
$0.00
The optimized image came out no smaller than the source. It is still returned.
$0.00
An image in a batch failed. You pay for the ones that succeeded.
$0.00
Your request was invalid. Any 4xx.
$0.00
Something broke on our side. Any 5xx.
$0.00

How billing works today

Credit is prepaid. It is counted in millionths of a dollar, so a $0.0008 image is charged as exactly $0.0008.
Every result carries its bill. billing.charged_micros is what the call cost, next to the sizes that justify it.
Retries are safe. Send an Idempotency-Key and a repeated request returns the original response without charging again.
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Common questions

Is there a monthly fee? No. There is no subscription, no minimum and no seat count.

What does a batch cost when some images fail? You pay for the images that succeeded. One bad image never fails the others.

Why is an unhelpful compression free? If your document is already as small as it can be, the honest outcome is to hand it back unchanged. There is no fair way to bill you for finding that out.