{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "convertapi", "name": "ConvertAPI", "vendor": "ConvertAPI, UAB", "vendorUrl": "https://www.convertapi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "pdf-tools", "summary": "ConvertAPI is a REST API from ConvertAPI, UAB in Lithuania for file conversion and PDF work, with 300+ converters across Office, PDF, image, HTML and email formats, SDKs in nine languages and a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convertapi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convertapi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convertapi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/convertapi.json", "dns": "convertapi.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/ConvertAPI", "license": "Proprietary service. SDKs on GitHub; the npm SDK is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.convertapi.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "convertapi" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "convertapi" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API tokens in `Authorization: Bearer`, separated by environment (Production or Development) with usage limits. JWTs with expiry and IP restriction, minted by `POST /token/jwt` or self-signed with HS256. One Master Token per account for admin endpoints, refreshable at once. The hosted MCP server signs in with OAuth. A `Token` query parameter is documented for links, with legacy `Secret` and `Auth` aliases.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Free trial of 250 conversions with no card, per llms.txt. Plans by conversion count (Developer 1,000 a month, Startup 5,000, Growth 15,000, Business 50,000, Enterprise 100K+), two months free yearly, overage billed per conversion. The pricing page draws prices by script and they were not readable on 6 November 2026 (https://www.convertapi.com/prices, https://www.convertapi.com/llms.txt).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the docs read or the OpenAPI document (checked 2026-11-06). Payments go through Paddle.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 177344, "pypiWeekly": 81556, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.convertapi.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://www.convertapi.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://v2.convertapi.com/info/openapi", "capabilities": [ "pdf.convert", "pdf.merge", "pdf.extract", "pdf.generate", "docs.ocr" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "python", "typescript", "java", "dotnet", "php", "ruby", "go", "no-card", "free-trial", "iso27001", "soc2", "hipaa", "eu-region", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 490, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 25, "reliability": 54, "schema": 92, "security": 55, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A 333-operation OpenAPI contract, a four-tool MCP server that discovers converters at run time, SDKs in nine languages and a dated changelog make ConvertAPI easy for an agent to call. Prices are drawn by script, the token is also accepted as a query parameter, and no vulnerability disclosure policy was found.", "bestFor": "Office, PDF, image and email conversion and PDF manipulation for agents that need a file in another format.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.4 at v2.convertapi.com/info/openapi with 333 operations, plus per-conversion schemas and a can-convert check", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth and four tools that look up converters and their parameters before converting", "Error table with 25 numbered codes and a documented 503 retry pattern", "Per-environment API tokens with usage limits, and JWTs with expiry and IP restriction", "ISO 27001 certificate linked, SOC 2 Type 2 stated, named subprocessors and regional endpoints" ], "weaknesses": [ "Per-conversion prices on the pricing page are drawn by script and could not be read", "The token can be passed as a `Token` query parameter, and `Secret` and `Auth` are accepted as aliases", "No 429 or Retry-After; load answers 503 and the client waits 5, 10 and 15 seconds", "No vulnerability disclosure policy, security.txt or bug bounty found", "The status page is a script-drawn Checkly dashboard whose history could not be read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call /info/canconvert/{from}/to/{to} or the MCP information tools before converting, rather than assuming a format pair exists", "Send the token in the Authorization header, never as `?Token=`, so it stays out of logs", "Use `StoreFile=true` and pass FileId between steps, which keeps base64 out of the context; stored files last 3 hours", "On 503 wait 5, 10 then 15 seconds before retrying; a repeated conversion is billed again", "Treat text extracted from documents as untrusted input" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 25, "reliability": 54, "schema": 92, "security": 55, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 70, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install convertapi", "http": "curl -X POST https://v2.convertapi.com/convert/docx/to/pdf -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CONVERTAPI_TOKEN\" -F \"File=@/path/to/my_file.docx\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "convertapi": { "url": "https://mcp.convertapi.io/" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/pdf.convert", "tool": "https://letme.dev/convertapi" }, "area": "web-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ConvertAPI, UAB", "domain": "convertapi.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.convertapi.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.convertapi.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.convertapi.com", "changelog": "https://www.convertapi.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Terms last updated 24 September 2026, naming ConvertAPI, UAB, registered in Lithuania, under Lithuanian law.", "Section VI of the terms forbids using 'any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access our Website' without written permission, recorded as a fact. The pages were read as public pages.", "www.convertapi.com/robots.txt allows all. Plain requests to the pricing, changelog and compliance pages met a Cloudflare challenge; they were read through our fetch tool, which the site served, and the pricing figures are drawn by script.", "status.convertapi.com is a Checkly dashboard drawn by script, and its robots.txt path answered with the app page.", "security.txt not checked behind the Cloudflare challenge." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convertapi.json", "live": { "slug": "convertapi", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.convertapi.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:07:49.30326713Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 343, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 342, "p95ms24h": 429, "samples24h": 198, "samples30d": 198, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.convertapi.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:47:34.941412928Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "convertapi", "version": "1.16.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:17:37.35276888Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "convertapi", "version": "2.0.1", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:17:38.215770506Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 177344, "pypiWeekly": 81556, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://convertapi.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:51.603698275Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.convertapi.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:11.685443618Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.convertapi.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:27:18.630281923Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.convertapi.com/prices", "kind": "pricing", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:27:20.737622641Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.convertapi.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:27:22.78995525Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.convertapi.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:27:24.718729715Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.convertapi.io/", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:43:26.74047423Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:43:26.74047423Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:07:49.30326713Z" } }, "answer": "ConvertAPI scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against PDFMonkey's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. PDFMonkey leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "pdfmonkey", "name": "PDFMonkey", "vendor": "PDFMonkey", "vendorUrl": "https://pdfmonkey.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "pdf-tools", "summary": "PDFMonkey is a hosted service from a Paris company that generates PDFs and images from Liquid or Builder templates and JSON data, through a REST API, a CLI, Ruby and Node.js SDKs, and a local MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdfmonkey", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdfmonkey.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdfmonkey.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pdfmonkey.json", "dns": "pdfmonkey.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/pdfmonkey/pdfmonkey-mcp", "license": "MIT (MCP server, CLI and SDKs)", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "pdfmonkey-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@pdfmonkey/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "pdfmonkey" }, { "registry": "rubygems", "name": "pdfmonkey" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "One secret API key per account, sent as `Authorization: Bearer`, found on the dashboard's API Key page after a browser signup. The key carries the whole account's privileges. Rotate API key issues a new key while the old one keeps working for 2 days, or is revoked at once. The MCP server and CLI read PDFMONKEY_API_KEY.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 20 documents a month and a 30-day Pro trial with 300 documents, no card. Starter €5 a month for 300 documents, Pro €15 for 3,000, Pro+ €60 for 5,000, Premium €300 for 60,000, 10 per cent off yearly. Pay-as-you-go overage from €0.008 to €0.005 a document, Boost Packs €5 per 1,000 documents (https://pdfmonkey.io/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$5.59 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms-full.txt, pricing page or MCP server source (checked 2026-11-03). Quota overruns are billed to the plan's card through the dashboard.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 11, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 97, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://pdfmonkey.io/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.pdfmonkey/pdfmonkey-mcp", "capabilities": [ "pdf.generate", "pdf.forms" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "free-tier", "mcp", "mcp-registry", "llms-txt", "cli", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "typescript", "ruby", "eu", "mit", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 708, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 40, "reliability": 60, "schema": 61, "security": 36, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent gets 11 compact MCP tools, a scriptable CLI and a sync endpoint, with public euro prices and a free plan. The one account-wide key has no scopes, document creation has no idempotency key, and there is no OpenAPI document, SLA or security disclosure policy.", "bestFor": "Agents that fill known templates with JSON to produce invoices, reports, forms and images, and teams that want an agent to author templates through the CLI.", "strengths": [ "11 compact MCP tools with typed inputs, and a CLI whose management commands all take `--json` and exit non-zero on error", "`POST /api/v1/documents/sync` returns the finished document in one request, waiting up to 6 minutes", "Plan prices, per-document overage rates and Boost Pack prices are public in euros, with a Free plan and a 30-day trial that need no card", "Key rotation keeps the old key alive for 2 days, and payloads are stored encrypted in EU data centres with a published DPA", "MCP server, CLI, Node.js SDK and Ruby gem are MIT and in the official MCP registry under a verified namespace" ], "weaknesses": [ "One secret key with the whole account's privileges, no scopes and no read-only key", "No OpenAPI document, no changelog page and no written rate limits beyond the monthly quota", "No idempotency key on document creation, so a retried create queues and bills a second document", "No SLA, no security.txt, no disclosure policy and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, which the docs state plainly", "The MCP server has no tool annotations and includes a permanent `delete_document`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `POST /api/v1/documents/sync` or the MCP `generate_document` tool for one document; for batches create with `status: pending` and poll `document_cards` or take the webhook", "Fetch the template first (`get_template` or `pdfmonkey template get --json`) to learn the payload shape; a mismatched payload generates a blank or wrong document, not an error", "Download within the hour; `download_url` returns 403 after 60 minutes, and fetching the document again gives a fresh link", "Do not retry a create on a timeout without checking `list_documents` first; there is no idempotency key and each generation counts against the quota", "Expect a 422 with field names when a required field is missing, and a rejected create at 100 per cent of the monthly quota unless pay-as-you-go is on" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 40, "reliability": 60, "schema": 61, "security": 36, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 86, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @pdfmonkey/cli", "http": "curl https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1/current_user -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PDFMONKEY_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add pdfmonkey -e PDFMONKEY_API_KEY=your-api-key -- npx -y pdfmonkey-mcp-server", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pdfmonkey": { "args": [ "-y", "pdfmonkey-mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "PDFMONKEY_API_KEY": "your-api-key" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/pdf.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pdfmonkey" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 5.59, "note": "€5, 300 documents a month, converted at the ECB rate of 3 November 2026 (1.1179). €4.50 billed yearly" }, { "item": "Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 16.77, "note": "€15, 3,000 documents a month. €13.50 billed yearly" }, { "item": "Pro+", "unit": "month", "usd": 67.07, "note": "€60, 5,000 documents a month. €54 billed yearly" }, { "item": "Premium", "unit": "month", "usd": 335.37, "note": "€300, 60,000 documents a month. €270 billed yearly" }, { "item": "Pay-as-you-go document on Starter", "unit": "tx", "usd": 0.0089, "note": "€0.008 a document beyond the quota. Pro €0.007, Pro+ €0.006, Premium €0.005" }, { "item": "Boost Pack", "unit": "tx", "usd": 5.59, "note": "€5 for 1,000 extra documents, expiring at the monthly quota reset" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "PDFMonkey", "domain": "pdfmonkey.io", "domainRegistered": "2016-05-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://pdfmonkey.io/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://pdfmonkey.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.pdfmonkey.io", "changelog": "https://pdfmonkey.io/blog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy policy are iubenda documents embedded on pdfmonkey.io (iubenda ids 72376615). They name the owner as PDFMonkey at 49 rue de Ponthieu, Lot 41, 75008 Paris, with no company form or registration number. The privacy policy was last updated 16 September 2026.", "The terms forbid accounts registered by bots or automated methods and contain no clause on automated reading of the website. pdfmonkey.io/robots.txt allows all crawlers.", "status.pdfmonkey.io is an updown.io page with six checks (API, dashboard, preview, website, generation latency, queue size) showing one month of rolling uptime per check and no incident write-ups.", "RDAP gives pdfmonkey.io a registration date of 7 May 2016. The oldest blog post is dated 9 December 2019, used for firstReleased.", "/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404. There is no changelog page; product changes are announced on the blog." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdfmonkey.json", "live": { "slug": "pdfmonkey", "probe": { "target": "https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:08:11.269906444Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 138, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 113, "p95ms24h": 317, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 698, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 87, "ok": 87 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.pdfmonkey.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:35.165997796Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.pdfmonkey/pdfmonkey-mcp", "version": "1.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T17:53:32.937482841Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@pdfmonkey/cli", "version": "2.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:55:04.267278445Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "pdfmonkey", "version": "1.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:55:06.136982193Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "pdfmonkey-mcp-server", "version": "1.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:55:03.881493402Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": 60, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pdfmonkey.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:36.91849592Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://pdfmonkey.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:36.334601137Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://pdfmonkey.io/blog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:12.28928756Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7cc58230d53e" }, { "url": "https://pdfmonkey.io/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:14.617530854Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f2604601bb66" }, { "url": "https://pdfmonkey.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:16.653433836Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e9a6fc29f073" }, { "url": "https://pdfmonkey.io/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:18.706097293Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ee0129d705ca" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:08:11.269906444Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 31, "category": "schema", "leads": "convertapi", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI 3.0.4 at v2.convertapi.com/info/openapi, 333 operations with token, JWT and secret schemes, plus per-conversion documents and wildcard listings (25). A long llms.txt written for agents (10). llms.txt tells agents to discover conversions rather than assume them and explains workflows and storage; converter pages describe each parameter (16 of 20). Per-converter parameter schemas in the OpenAPI document, validated by the MCP convert tool (12 of 15). 25 numbered error codes with meanings and examples throughout (14 of 15). v2 API and a dated public changelog (15). 25+10+16+12+14+15 = 92.", "b": "No OpenAPI document was found on pdfmonkey.io, in llms-full.txt or in the repositories; the 11 MCP tools carry JSON Schema inputs from src/tools.ts (12). llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and every docs page has a Markdown twin (10). MCP tool descriptions are one line each and say what the tool does, and the MCP docs say what the server can't do (create or edit templates) and send that job to the CLI; the API docs explain async against sync and when to use each (12). Parameter tables give types and required fields, list_documents has a status enum, and `payload` is by nature a free JSON object matched to the template (10). Request examples in curl, Ruby, Node.js, Python and PHP on every endpoint, a 401 body, a 422 body with field names and a troubleshooting section for blank documents, empty and 403 download URLs (12). The API lives under /api/v1 and docs pages carry a last-updated date, but there is no changelog page, changes are announced in blog posts such as What We Shipped Since the Summer of 26 October 2026 (5). 12 + 10 + 12 + 10 + 12 + 5 = 61." }, "scores": { "a": 92, "b": 61 } }, { "by": 19, "category": "security", "leads": "convertapi", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Tokens per environment with usage limits, JWTs with expiry and IP restriction, a separate Master Token for admin endpoints, OAuth on the hosted MCP (30), less 10 for the documented `Token` query parameter and its `Secret` and `Auth` aliases (20 of 30). Usage limits per token, but no read-only token, and stored files can be deleted (8 of 20). Extracted text and OCR output come from the documents, with no prompt-injection guidance (3 of 15). Usage statistics and per-environment consumption through the Master Token (10 of 15). ISO 27001 certificate linked, SOC 2 Type 2 stated with the report on request, cyber insurance; no disclosure policy, security.txt or bug bounty found (14 of 20). 20+8+3+10+14 = 55.", "b": "One secret key per account with the whole account's privileges, sent as a Bearer header; it can be rotated with a 2-day overlap and the old key revoked at once, but there are no scopes, no second key and no read-only key (12). No least-privilege mode; the MCP server exposes `delete_document`, the CLI asks before deletions unless `-y`, and the MCP docs say most clients ask before running a delete (6). The tools return the account's own templates, documents and quota, not third-party content (10). Each document carries generation logs and the dashboard shows usage, but no audit log or per-key activity view was found (3). No security.txt (404), no disclosure policy and no bug bounty; the compliance page says there is no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and sets against that EU hosting, encrypted payloads and a DPA dated 15 October 2026 (5). 12 + 6 + 10 + 3 + 5 = 36." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 36 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "payments", "leads": "pdfmonkey", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan quotas are public, but the prices and per-conversion overage on the pricing page are drawn by script and could not be read (5 of 20). A free trial of 250 conversions with no card, per llms.txt (20). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+5+20+0 = 25.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices in euros, per-document pay-as-you-go rates and the Boost Pack price are on the public pricing page and in the docs (20). A Free plan of 20 documents a month and a 30-day Pro trial of 300 documents, no card (20). Signup is a browser flow and the key is minted in the dashboard (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 25, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "transparency", "leads": "pdfmonkey", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with terms dated 24 September 2026 naming ConvertAPI, UAB under Lithuanian law (15 of 30). Files are stored at most 3 hours or converted in memory per the compliance page, and a DPA and BAA are published, but llms.txt also says files are 'deleted immediately after processing by default', and the terms give no periods (20 of 30). The changelog dates changes, including the removal of the AiMode parameter on 22 October 2026 with no prior notice found, and the docs mark the secret as deprecated with no date; no deprecation policy (6 of 20). Subprocessors named with roles and regional endpoints listed (18 of 20). 15+20+6+18 = 59.", "b": "Closed service with iubenda terms that name the owner only as PDFMonkey at a Paris address, while the MCP server, CLI, Node SDK and Ruby gem are MIT (20). Retention statements agree across the plans page, the retention page and the data storage page (per-template TTL, 1 day, 7 days or unlimited by plan), the DPA and DsPA of 15 October 2026 are downloadable, and the privacy policy of 16 September 2026 names its processors, though it still lists Heroku where the docs name Fly.io (24). Engine deprecations were announced with a promised heads-up in 2023 and key rotation has a 2-day overlap, but there is no written deprecation policy with notice periods (8). Data locations are named (Paris and Frankfurt) and the DPA carries the approved sub-processor list (18). 20 + 24 + 8 + 18 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 78 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "reliability", "leads": "pdfmonkey", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted lines. status.convertapi.com is a Checkly dashboard drawn by script, so its components were not confirmed (10 of 20) and no history could be read (5). Concurrency per plan is published (1 to 4 concurrent conversions), with no request-rate figure (12 of 15). Under load the API answers 503 and llms.txt gives a 5, 10 and 15 second retry pattern; no 429, Retry-After or idempotency key (12 of 15). The compliance page states '99,95% monthly uptime' and says the SLA sits in the terms, but the terms read on 6 November state no uptime figure (5 of 10). Generally available (10). 10+5+12+12+5+10 = 54.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines. status.pdfmonkey.io is an updown.io page with six checks (API, dashboard, preview, website, generation latency, queue size) and one month of rolling uptime per check, but no incident write-ups (15). The readable record is the uptime figures (API 99.98 per cent and queue 99.97 per cent since 3 October 2026) and the one incident the vendor wrote up, a slowdown of a little under an hour on 29 September 2026 with a post-mortem on 1 October; the 90-day list itself isn't published, so minor incidents only (20). The docs say there is no hard rate limit, only the monthly quota, so no request-rate numbers (5 for the quota numbers). The Node.js SDK retries 408, 429 and 5xx with backoff and honours Retry-After, and the webhook docs say delivery is at least once and to make handlers idempotent, but document creation has no idempotency key (10). No SLA found in the terms or pricing (0). GA (10). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 60." }, "scores": { "a": 54, "b": 60 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "ConvertAPI, UAB", "b": "PDFMonkey", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.convertapi.io", "b": "https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service. SDKs on GitHub; the npm SDK is MIT", "b": "MIT (MCP server, CLI and SDKs)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "4", "b": "11", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.pdfmonkey/pdfmonkey-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "2026-10-26", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-24", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "177k npm/wk, 82k PyPI/wk", "b": "97 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ConvertAPI scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against PDFMonkey's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. PDFMonkey leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ConvertAPI or PDFMonkey?" }, { "answer": "ConvertAPI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. PDFMonkey needs an API key.", "question": "Do ConvertAPI and PDFMonkey need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ConvertAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.convertapi.io and PDFMonkey at https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call ConvertAPI and PDFMonkey without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 61", "Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 36" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Office, PDF, image and email conversion and PDF manipulation for agents that need a file in another format.", "slug": "convertapi", "watchFor": "Per-conversion prices on the pricing page are drawn by script and could not be read" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 54", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 65" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Agents that fill known templates with JSON to produce invoices, reports, forms and images, and teams that want an agent to author templates through the CLI.", "slug": "pdfmonkey", "watchFor": "One secret key with the whole account's 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-nutrient-dws-processor.json", "title": "ConvertAPI vs Nutrient DWS Processor API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-nutrient-dws-processor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdf-co.json", "title": "ConvertAPI vs PDF.co API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdf-co" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfrest.json", "title": "ConvertAPI vs pdfRest API Toolkit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfrest" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudconvert-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "title": "CloudConvert API vs PDFMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudconvert-vs-pdfmonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docraptor-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "title": "DocRaptor vs PDFMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docraptor-vs-pdfmonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "title": "Foxit PDF Services API vs PDFMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-pdfmonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iloveapi-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "title": "iLoveAPI vs PDFMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iloveapi-vs-pdfmonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutrient-dws-processor-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "title": "Nutrient DWS Processor API vs PDFMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutrient-dws-processor-vs-pdfmonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pdf-co-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "title": "PDF.co API + MCP vs PDFMonkey", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pdf-co-vs-pdfmonkey" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pdfmonkey-vs-pdfrest.json", "title": "PDFMonkey vs pdfRest API Toolkit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pdfmonkey-vs-pdfrest" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 6, "convertapi": 54, "edge": "pdfmonkey", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "pdfmonkey": 60, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "convertapi": 92, "edge": "convertapi", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "pdfmonkey": 61, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "convertapi": 79, "edge": "convertapi", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "pdfmonkey": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "convertapi": 55, "edge": "convertapi", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "pdfmonkey": 36, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "convertapi": 25, "edge": "pdfmonkey", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "pdfmonkey": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "convertapi": 80, "edge": "pdfmonkey", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "pdfmonkey": 81, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "convertapi": 65, "edge": "pdfmonkey", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "pdfmonkey": 78, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "ConvertAPI scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against PDFMonkey's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. PDFMonkey leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do pdf generate.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "convertapi": "A 333-operation OpenAPI contract, a four-tool MCP server that discovers converters at run time, SDKs in nine languages and a dated changelog make ConvertAPI easy for an agent to call. Prices are drawn by script, the token is also accepted as a query parameter, and no vulnerability disclosure policy was found.", "pdfmonkey": "An agent gets 11 compact MCP tools, a scriptable CLI and a sync endpoint, with public euro prices and a free plan. The one account-wide key has no scopes, document creation has no idempotency key, and there is no OpenAPI document, SLA or security disclosure policy." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfmonkey", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfmonkey.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfmonkey.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfmonkey.min.md" }, "markdown": "ConvertAPI scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against PDFMonkey's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. PDFMonkey leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do pdf generate.\n\n- ConvertAPI: grade B, 64/100, rank #490 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convertapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/convertapi.json\n- PDFMonkey: grade C, 59.3/100, rank #708 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdfmonkey.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pdfmonkey.json\n- Best PDF manipulation and conversion APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/pdf-tools/index.md\n- All 53 pdf comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pdf-tools/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ConvertAPI (B)\n\nGood for: Office, PDF, image and email conversion and PDF manipulation for agents that need a file in another format.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 61\n- Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 36\n\nWatch for: Per-conversion prices on the pricing page are drawn by script and could not be read\n\n### PDFMonkey (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that fill known templates with JSON to produce invoices, reports, forms and images, and teams that want an agent to author templates through the CLI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 54\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: One secret key with the whole account's privileges, no scopes and no read-only key\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: ConvertAPI +31\n\n- ConvertAPI (92): OpenAPI 3.0.4 at v2.convertapi.com/info/openapi, 333 operations with token, JWT and secret schemes, plus per-conversion documents and wildcard listings (25). A long llms.txt written for agents (10). llms.txt tells agents to discover conversions rather than assume them and explains workflows and storage; converter pages describe each parameter (16 of 20). Per-converter parameter schemas in the OpenAPI document, validated by the MCP convert tool (12 of 15). 25 numbered error codes with meanings and examples throughout (14 of 15). v2 API and a dated public changelog (15). 25+10+16+12+14+15 = 92.\n- PDFMonkey (61): No OpenAPI document was found on pdfmonkey.io, in llms-full.txt or in the repositories; the 11 MCP tools carry JSON Schema inputs from src/tools.ts (12). llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and every docs page has a Markdown twin (10). MCP tool descriptions are one line each and say what the tool does, and the MCP docs say what the server can't do (create or edit templates) and send that job to the CLI; the API docs explain async against sync and when to use each (12). Parameter tables give types and required fields, list_documents has a status enum, and `payload` is by nature a free JSON object matched to the template (10). Request examples in curl, Ruby, Node.js, Python and PHP on every endpoint, a 401 body, a 422 body with field names and a troubleshooting section for blank documents, empty and 403 download URLs (12). The API lives under /api/v1 and docs pages carry a last-updated date, but there is no changelog page, changes are announced in blog posts such as What We Shipped Since the Summer of 26 October 2026 (5). 12 + 10 + 12 + 10 + 12 + 5 = 61.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: ConvertAPI +19\n\n- ConvertAPI (55): Tokens per environment with usage limits, JWTs with expiry and IP restriction, a separate Master Token for admin endpoints, OAuth on the hosted MCP (30), less 10 for the documented `Token` query parameter and its `Secret` and `Auth` aliases (20 of 30). Usage limits per token, but no read-only token, and stored files can be deleted (8 of 20). Extracted text and OCR output come from the documents, with no prompt-injection guidance (3 of 15). Usage statistics and per-environment consumption through the Master Token (10 of 15). ISO 27001 certificate linked, SOC 2 Type 2 stated with the report on request, cyber insurance; no disclosure policy, security.txt or bug bounty found (14 of 20). 20+8+3+10+14 = 55.\n- PDFMonkey (36): One secret key per account with the whole account's privileges, sent as a Bearer header; it can be rotated with a 2-day overlap and the old key revoked at once, but there are no scopes, no second key and no read-only key (12). No least-privilege mode; the MCP server exposes `delete_document`, the CLI asks before deletions unless `-y`, and the MCP docs say most clients ask before running a delete (6). The tools return the account's own templates, documents and quota, not third-party content (10). Each document carries generation logs and the dashboard shows usage, but no audit log or per-key activity view was found (3). No security.txt (404), no disclosure policy and no bug bounty; the compliance page says there is no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and sets against that EU hosting, encrypted payloads and a DPA dated 15 October 2026 (5). 12 + 6 + 10 + 3 + 5 = 36.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: PDFMonkey +15\n\n- ConvertAPI (25): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan quotas are public, but the prices and per-conversion overage on the pricing page are drawn by script and could not be read (5 of 20). A free trial of 250 conversions with no card, per llms.txt (20). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+5+20+0 = 25.\n- PDFMonkey (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices in euros, per-document pay-as-you-go rates and the Boost Pack price are on the public pricing page and in the docs (20). A Free plan of 20 documents a month and a 30-day Pro trial of 300 documents, no card (20). Signup is a browser flow and the key is minted in the dashboard (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: PDFMonkey +13\n\n- ConvertAPI (65): Closed service with terms dated 24 September 2026 naming ConvertAPI, UAB under Lithuanian law (15 of 30). Files are stored at most 3 hours or converted in memory per the compliance page, and a DPA and BAA are published, but llms.txt also says files are 'deleted immediately after processing by default', and the terms give no periods (20 of 30). The changelog dates changes, including the removal of the AiMode parameter on 22 October 2026 with no prior notice found, and the docs mark the secret as deprecated with no date; no deprecation policy (6 of 20). Subprocessors named with roles and regional endpoints listed (18 of 20). 15+20+6+18 = 59.\n- PDFMonkey (78): Closed service with iubenda terms that name the owner only as PDFMonkey at a Paris address, while the MCP server, CLI, Node SDK and Ruby gem are MIT (20). Retention statements agree across the plans page, the retention page and the data storage page (per-template TTL, 1 day, 7 days or unlimited by plan), the DPA and DsPA of 15 October 2026 are downloadable, and the privacy policy of 16 September 2026 names its processors, though it still lists Heroku where the docs name Fly.io (24). Engine deprecations were announced with a promised heads-up in 2023 and key rotation has a 2-day overlap, but there is no written deprecation policy with notice periods (8). Data locations are named (Paris and Frankfurt) and the DPA carries the approved sub-processor list (18). 20 + 24 + 8 + 18 = 70.\n\n### Reliability: PDFMonkey +6\n\n- ConvertAPI (54): Hosted lines. status.convertapi.com is a Checkly dashboard drawn by script, so its components were not confirmed (10 of 20) and no history could be read (5). Concurrency per plan is published (1 to 4 concurrent conversions), with no request-rate figure (12 of 15). Under load the API answers 503 and llms.txt gives a 5, 10 and 15 second retry pattern; no 429, Retry-After or idempotency key (12 of 15). The compliance page states '99,95% monthly uptime' and says the SLA sits in the terms, but the terms read on 6 November state no uptime figure (5 of 10). Generally available (10). 10+5+12+12+5+10 = 54.\n- PDFMonkey (60): Read with the hosted lines. status.pdfmonkey.io is an updown.io page with six checks (API, dashboard, preview, website, generation latency, queue size) and one month of rolling uptime per check, but no incident write-ups (15). The readable record is the uptime figures (API 99.98 per cent and queue 99.97 per cent since 3 October 2026) and the one incident the vendor wrote up, a slowdown of a little under an hour on 29 September 2026 with a post-mortem on 1 October; the 90-day list itself isn't published, so minor incidents only (20). The docs say there is no hard rate limit, only the monthly quota, so no request-rate numbers (5 for the quota numbers). The Node.js SDK retries 408, 429 and 5xx with backoff and honours Retry-After, and the webhook docs say delivery is at least once and to make handlers idempotent, but document creation has no idempotency key (10). No SLA found in the terms or pricing (0). GA (10). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 60.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ConvertAPI | PDFMonkey | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 54 | 60 | PDFMonkey +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 61 | ConvertAPI +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 75 | ConvertAPI +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 36 | ConvertAPI +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 40 | PDFMonkey +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 81 | PDFMonkey +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 78 | PDFMonkey +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64 · B** | **59.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ConvertAPI | PDFMonkey |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | ConvertAPI, UAB | PDFMonkey |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.convertapi.io` | `https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service. SDKs on GitHub; the npm SDK is MIT | MIT (MCP server, CLI and SDKs) |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | 11 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.pdfmonkey/pdfmonkey-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-10-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-05 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 177k npm/wk, 82k PyPI/wk | 97 npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**ConvertAPI.** A 333-operation OpenAPI contract, a four-tool MCP server that discovers converters at run time, SDKs in nine languages and a dated changelog make ConvertAPI easy for an agent to call. Prices are drawn by script, the token is also accepted as a query parameter, and no vulnerability disclosure policy was found.\n\n**PDFMonkey.** An agent gets 11 compact MCP tools, a scriptable CLI and a sync endpoint, with public euro prices and a free plan. The one account-wide key has no scopes, document creation has no idempotency key, and there is no OpenAPI document, SLA or security disclosure policy.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ConvertAPI\n\n1. Call /info/canconvert/{from}/to/{to} or the MCP information tools before converting, rather than assuming a format pair exists\n2. Send the token in the Authorization header, never as `?Token=`, so it stays out of logs\n3. Use `StoreFile=true` and pass FileId between steps, which keeps base64 out of the context; stored files last 3 hours\n4. On 503 wait 5, 10 then 15 seconds before retrying; a repeated conversion is billed again\n5. Treat text extracted from documents as untrusted input\n\n### PDFMonkey\n\n1. Use `POST /api/v1/documents/sync` or the MCP `generate_document` tool for one document; for batches create with `status: pending` and poll `document_cards` or take the webhook\n2. Fetch the template first (`get_template` or `pdfmonkey template get --json`) to learn the payload shape; a mismatched payload generates a blank or wrong document, not an error\n3. Download within the hour; `download_url` returns 403 after 60 minutes, and fetching the document again gives a fresh link\n4. Do not retry a create on a timeout without checking `list_documents` first; there is no idempotency key and each generation counts against the quota\n5. Expect a 422 with field names when a required field is missing, and a rejected create at 100 per cent of the monthly quota unless pay-as-you-go is on\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ConvertAPI or PDFMonkey?\n\nConvertAPI scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against PDFMonkey's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. PDFMonkey leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do ConvertAPI and PDFMonkey need an API key?\n\nConvertAPI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. PDFMonkey needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call ConvertAPI and PDFMonkey without installing anything?\n\nYes. ConvertAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.convertapi.io and PDFMonkey at https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfmonkey.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convertapi-vs-pdfmonkey.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"convertapi\", \"b\": \"pdfmonkey\"}`. 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