{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "foxit-pdf-services", "name": "Foxit PDF Services API", "vendor": "Foxit Software Incorporated", "vendorUrl": "https://developer-api.foxit.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "pdf-tools", "summary": "Foxit's cloud REST API for PDF work. It converts Office files, HTML, Markdown and web pages to PDF and back, merges, splits, compresses, protects, redacts, fills forms and runs OCR. An official MCP server wraps it.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foxit-pdf-services", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foxit-pdf-services.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foxit-pdf-services.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/foxit-pdf-services.json", "repo": "https://github.com/foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server", "license": "Proprietary service under the Foxit API Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT per its package.json, with no licence file in the repository", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Self-serve. Sign up at app.developer-api.foxit.com with an email address and the dashboard shows a client ID and client secret for a default application. Exchange them at `https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/oauth/token` (client credentials, HTTP Basic recommended) for a Bearer token that lasts about 24 hours, with no refresh token and no scopes. An account holds up to 10 applications on the free plan and 50 on paid plans, each in sandbox or production mode. The MCP server sends the client ID and secret as `client_id` and `client_secret` headers on every call.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free Developer plan with 500 credits a year, renewed yearly, and the sign-up page asks only for an email address. Startup is $1,750 a year for 5,000 credits and Business $4,500 a year for 15,000, with Volume by quote. A PDF Services request costs 1 credit when it returns 2xx, whatever the page count. Failed requests, uploads, task polling and downloads are free. Credits are shared with the eSign (5 an envelope) and Document Generation APIs and do not roll over (https://app.developer-api.foxit.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$0.35 / call", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the reference guides or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 42, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12, "npmWeekly": 47, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.developer-api.foxit.com/reference/tag/pdf-services-overview", "openapi": "https://app.developer-api.foxit.com/documentation/foxit-apis.yaml", "registryName": "io.github.foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "pdf.convert", "pdf.merge", "pdf.forms", "pdf.generate", "pdf.extract", "docs.ocr" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "async-jobs", "free-tier", "typescript", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 818, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 40, "reliability": 47, "schema": 62, "security": 40, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One credit per successful request, with failed calls, uploads, polling and downloads free, and a 500-credit yearly free plan. Access has no scopes, and the official MCP server reads and writes any local path. The status page has no component for the API, and no changelog was found.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs conversion, page operations, protection, redaction, forms and OCR at a flat per-request price with free failures.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file covering 38 PDF Services operations, with request examples and coded error bodies", "Flat price of 1 credit per successful request. Failed requests, uploads, task polling and downloads are not billed", "Free Developer plan with 500 credits a year, and paid plans published at $1,750 and $4,500 a year", "Rate limits published as 15 requests a minute in sandbox mode and 100 in production, per application", "Vulnerability disclosure policy with safe harbour, and Foxit assigns its own CVE IDs as a CNA" ], "weaknesses": [ "OAuth client credentials carry no scopes, so every application credential can convert, delete and download", "status.foxit.com has no component for the API gateway at na1.fusion.foxit.com or for PDF Services", "No API changelog or deprecation policy found, and no llms.txt. The reference pages are drawn by script", "MCP server 1.1.2 has 42 tools with no annotations, and its public repository still holds 0.2.3", "The API agreement says uploads are deleted within 30 days. The privacy policy says on completion, with outputs kept about a day" ], "agentNotes": [ "Exchange the client ID and secret at `https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/oauth/token` and cache the Bearer token. `expires_in` is about 24 hours and there is no refresh token", "Upload first with `POST /pdf-services/api/documents/upload`, start the operation, poll `GET /pdf-services/api/tasks/{task-id}` until `COMPLETED`, then download `resultDocumentId`", "Read the body of a 429. It means either the rate limit (15 a minute in sandbox, 100 in production) or `QUOTA_EXCEEDED` when credits run out", "Keep uploads under 100 MB, and delete documents with `DELETE /pdf-services/api/documents/{document-id}` when done. Deletion is permanent", "With the MCP server, pass only paths the task needs. `upload_document` reads any `file://` path and `download_document` writes to any absolute path" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 48.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 40, "reliability": 47, "schema": 62, "security": 40, "transparency": 44 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "install": "npx @foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server", "http": "curl --request POST 'https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/oauth/token' \\\n --user 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID:YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \\\n --data 'grant_type=client_credentials'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "foxit-pdf": { "args": [ "-y", "@foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "FOXIT_CLOUD_API_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id", "FOXIT_CLOUD_API_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret", "FOXIT_CLOUD_API_HOST": "https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/pdf.convert", "tool": "https://letme.dev/foxit-pdf-services" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "PDF Services request, Startup plan", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.35, "note": "$1,750 a year for 5,000 credits, 1 credit per successful request" }, { "item": "PDF Services request, Business plan", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.3, "note": "$4,500 a year for 15,000 credits, 1 credit per successful request" }, { "item": "Startup", "unit": "month", "usd": 168, "note": "Billed monthly. $1,750 billed yearly, 5,000 credits a year" }, { "item": "Business", "unit": "month", "usd": 431, "note": "Billed monthly. $4,500 billed yearly, 15,000 credits a year" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Foxit Software Incorporated", "domain": "foxit.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-01-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.foxit.com/api/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://www.foxit.com/company/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.foxit.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Foxit API Service Agreement (effective 30 June 2025) applies to the API services and is read with the General Terms of Service (effective 27 June 2025) and the Foxit Software Privacy Policy.", "The API answers at na1.fusion.foxit.com, a foxit.com subdomain. The developer portal is developer-api.foxit.com and the reference is app.developer-api.foxit.com.", "www.foxit.com/.well-known/security.txt carries `Expires: 2025-01-01T100:00:00.000Z`, which is past and not a valid timestamp. It names security-ml@foxit.com and the disclosure policy.", "status.foxit.com has no component for the API gateway or PDF Services. Its only entry naming the developer portal is an outage record of 9 December 2025 whose single update reads Testing.", "The privacy policy states it is effective as of 10 May 2022, and also carries later sections on AI model training and server locations.", "No API changelog was found on the developer portal, in the reference or in the MCP repository.", "RDAP for foxit.com gives a registration date of 2004-01-04." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foxit-pdf-services.json", "live": { "slug": "foxit-pdf-services", "probe": { "target": "https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:09.339929659Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 303, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 162, "p95ms24h": 1120, "samples24h": 191, "samples30d": 191, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.foxit.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:35.607335402Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server", "version": "1.1.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:53:54.371077663Z" } ], "githubStars": 12, "npmWeekly": 38, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://foxit.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2025-01-01T100:00:00.000Z.", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:08.841757509Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://app.developer-api.foxit.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:38.078551764Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "510d30c9d54b" }, { "url": "https://www.foxit.com/company/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:13.771442278Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b6b0bae49466" }, { "url": "https://www.foxit.com/api/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:11.177241633Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e9f042c1d8d7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:09.339929659Z" } }, "answer": "Foxit PDF Services API scores 48.3 (D) on agent readiness against iLoveAPI's 42 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. iLoveAPI leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "iloveapi", "name": "iLoveAPI", "vendor": "iLovePDF S.L.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.iloveapi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "pdf-tools", "summary": "REST API from iLovePDF S.L. of Barcelona for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, protecting, editing and running OCR on PDFs, with image tools and signature requests. Tasks run in four calls, billed in credits.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/iloveapi.json", "repo": "https://github.com/ilovepdf/ilovepdf-python", "license": "Proprietary service under the iLovePDF API terms. The client libraries are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "ilovepdf" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@ilovepdf/ilovepdf-nodejs" }, { "registry": "packagist", "name": "ilovepdf/ilovepdf-php" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. Each project has a public key and a secret key in the developer console. Requests carry `Authorization: Bearer` with a JWT signed by the secret key, valid for one hour, or a token from `POST /v1/auth` given the public key. Domain and IP filters are available depending on tier.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free accounts get 2,500 credits a month with no card asked at sign-up. Paid credits come as monthly or yearly subscriptions or non-expiring prepaid packages. Euro prices are drawn by script and were not read. Only successfully processed files are charged (https://www.iloveapi.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the pricing page or the terms (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 9582, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.iloveapi.com/docs/api-reference", "capabilities": [ "pdf.convert", "pdf.merge", "pdf.generate", "pdf.extract", "docs.ocr" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "rest", "jwt", "credits", "free-tier", "webhooks", "php", "dotnet", "python", "nodejs", "ruby", "iso27001", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 897, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 30, "reliability": 26, "schema": 37, "security": 41, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-tool credit costs are public, 2,500 free credits arrive each month on a sign-up that asks for no card, and five official libraries are MIT. No OpenAPI file, status page or published rate-limit numbers were found, and the governing terms date from 14 February 2017.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs common PDF and image operations with a monthly free allowance and a choice of processing region.", "strengths": [ "2,500 free credits a month on registration, and the sign-up form asks for name, email and password only", "Credit cost of each tool is public, from 2 credits an image file to 5 a merge task and 10 a file for most PDF tools", "Seven processing regions can be chosen per task (eu, us, fr, de, pl, in, sg)", "Official MIT libraries for PHP, .NET, Python, Node.js and Ruby, with three tagged releases between 22 July and 3 September 2026", "ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate linked from the security page, and optional per-task file encryption with a caller-held key" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI file, llms.txt or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page", "No status page is linked from the site or docs, and rate limits are described as tier-dependent with no numbers", "The API terms were last modified on 14 February 2017 and let iLovePDF discontinue the API at any time without liability", "Uptime is stated as over 99.95% on the pricing page and 99.9%+ on the functions page, while the terms disclaim availability", "The reference still says a free account has a 250-file monthly limit, while the pricing page says 2,500 credits", "No idempotency keys, no scoped or read-only keys, and no guidance on untrusted text returned by OCR, Markdown or summary tools" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run four calls per job. `GET /v1/start/{tool}/{region}` returns a `server` and a `task`, then send upload, process and download to that server", "Sign a JWT with the project secret key and send it as `Authorization: Bearer`. Tokens expire after one hour", "Download results promptly. The reference says files are deleted one to two hours after processing, depending on tier", "Back off exponentially on 429 and read the rate-limit headers on each response. No limit numbers are published", "Add `debug=true` to any request to have the server echo the parameters without processing or spending credits" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 30, "reliability": 26, "schema": 37, "security": 41, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 66 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install ilovepdf", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1/auth -d \"public_key=$ILOVEPDF_PUBLIC_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/pdf.convert", "tool": "https://letme.dev/iloveapi" }, "area": "web-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "iLovePDF S.L.", "domain": "iloveapi.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-08-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.iloveapi.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.iloveapi.com/policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The API answers at api.ilovepdf.com, the vendor's main domain, and the product site is iloveapi.com", "The privacy page at iloveapi.com/policy embeds an iubenda document (www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/331973) that iubenda's robots.txt disallows, so its text was not read", "www.iloveapi.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 and was not retried", "No status page or API changelog is linked from the site or the docs" ], "score": 66 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi.json", "live": { "slug": "iloveapi", "probe": { "target": "https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:12.088249497Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 138, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 125, "p95ms24h": 193, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "ilovepdf/ilovepdf-python", "version": "v1.1.0", "released": "2026-07-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:58:36.678829815Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@ilovepdf/ilovepdf-nodejs", "version": "0.3.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:58:35.841962669Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "ilovepdf", "version": "1.0.0", "released": "2026-04-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:58:35.730864554Z" } ], "githubStars": 15, "npmWeekly": 9582, "pypiWeekly": 60, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.iloveapi.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:09.812140969Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "99ae5ec9f360" }, { "url": "https://www.iloveapi.com/policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:07.694318062Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "15c457ef8e47" }, { "url": "https://www.iloveapi.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:11.762653183Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9451d9a5e124" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:12.088249497Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Foxit Software Incorporated", "b": "iLovePDF S.L.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services", "b": "https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the Foxit API Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT per its package.json, with no licence file in the repository", "b": "Proprietary service under the iLovePDF API terms. 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Foxit PDF Services API has a hosted endpoint at https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services and iLoveAPI at https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Foxit PDF Services API and iLoveAPI without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 47 against 26", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 62 against 37", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "An agent that needs conversion, page operations, protection, redaction, forms and OCR at a flat per-request price with free failures.", "slug": "foxit-pdf-services", "watchFor": "OAuth client credentials carry no scopes, so every application credential can convert, delete and download" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 61 against 49", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 38" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent that needs common PDF and image operations with a monthly free allowance and a choice of processing region.", "slug": "iloveapi", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI file, llms.txt or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page" } ], "job": { "capability": "pdf.convert", "name": "PDF conversion" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudconvert-vs-foxit-pdf-services.json", "title": "CloudConvert API vs Foxit PDF Services API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudconvert-vs-foxit-pdf-services" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudconvert-vs-iloveapi.json", "title": "CloudConvert API vs iLoveAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudconvert-vs-iloveapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-nutrient-dws-processor.json", "title": "Foxit PDF Services API vs Nutrient DWS Processor API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-nutrient-dws-processor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-pdf-co.json", "title": "Foxit PDF Services API vs PDF.co API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-pdf-co" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iloveapi-vs-nutrient-dws-processor.json", "title": "iLoveAPI vs Nutrient DWS Processor API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iloveapi-vs-nutrient-dws-processor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iloveapi-vs-pdf-co.json", "title": "iLoveAPI vs PDF.co API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iloveapi-vs-pdf-co" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 21, "edge": "foxit-pdf-services", "foxit-pdf-services": 47, "iloveapi": 26, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "foxit-pdf-services", "foxit-pdf-services": 62, "iloveapi": 37, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "iloveapi", "foxit-pdf-services": 49, "iloveapi": 61, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "iloveapi", "foxit-pdf-services": 40, "iloveapi": 41, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "foxit-pdf-services", "foxit-pdf-services": 40, "iloveapi": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 24, "edge": "iloveapi", "foxit-pdf-services": 38, "iloveapi": 62, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "foxit-pdf-services", "foxit-pdf-services": 63, "iloveapi": 52, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Foxit PDF Services API scores 48.3 (D) on agent readiness against iLoveAPI's 42 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. iLoveAPI leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do pdf conversion.", "verdicts": { "foxit-pdf-services": "One credit per successful request, with failed calls, uploads, polling and downloads free, and a 500-credit yearly free plan. Access has no scopes, and the official MCP server reads and writes any local path. The status page has no component for the API, and no changelog was found.", "iloveapi": "Per-tool credit costs are public, 2,500 free credits arrive each month on a sign-up that asks for no card, and five official libraries are MIT. No OpenAPI file, status page or published rate-limit numbers were found, and the governing terms date from 14 February 2017." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-iloveapi", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-iloveapi.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-iloveapi.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-iloveapi.min.md" }, "markdown": "Foxit PDF Services API scores 48.3 (D) on agent readiness against iLoveAPI's 42 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. iLoveAPI leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do pdf conversion.\n\n- Foxit PDF Services API: grade D, 48.3/100, rank #818 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foxit-pdf-services.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/foxit-pdf-services.json\n- iLoveAPI: grade E, 42/100, rank #897 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/iloveapi.json\n- Best PDF manipulation and conversion APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/pdf-tools/index.md\n- All 24 pdf comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pdf-tools/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Foxit PDF Services API (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs conversion, page operations, protection, redaction, forms and OCR at a flat per-request price with free failures.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 47 against 26\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 62 against 37\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: OAuth client credentials carry no scopes, so every application credential can convert, delete and download\n\n### iLoveAPI (E)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs common PDF and image operations with a monthly free allowance and a choice of processing region.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 49\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 38\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI file, llms.txt or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Foxit PDF Services API | iLoveAPI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 47 | 26 | Foxit PDF Services API +21 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 37 | Foxit PDF Services API +25 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 61 | iLoveAPI +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 41 | iLoveAPI +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Foxit PDF Services API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 38 | 62 | iLoveAPI +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 52 | Foxit PDF Services API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **48.3 · D** | **42 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Foxit PDF Services API | iLoveAPI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Foxit Software Incorporated | iLovePDF S.L. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services` | `https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Foxit API Service Agreement. The MCP server is MIT per its package.json, with no licence file in the repository | Proprietary service under the iLovePDF API terms. The client libraries are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 42 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.foxitsoftware/foxit-pdf-api-mcp-server` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-07-13 | 2026-09-03 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-06-30 | 2017-02-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 12 stars, 47 npm/wk | 9.6k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Foxit PDF Services API.** One credit per successful request, with failed calls, uploads, polling and downloads free, and a 500-credit yearly free plan. Access has no scopes, and the official MCP server reads and writes any local path. The status page has no component for the API, and no changelog was found.\n\n**iLoveAPI.** Per-tool credit costs are public, 2,500 free credits arrive each month on a sign-up that asks for no card, and five official libraries are MIT. No OpenAPI file, status page or published rate-limit numbers were found, and the governing terms date from 14 February 2017.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Foxit PDF Services API\n\n1. Exchange the client ID and secret at `https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/oauth/token` and cache the Bearer token. `expires_in` is about 24 hours and there is no refresh token\n2. Upload first with `POST /pdf-services/api/documents/upload`, start the operation, poll `GET /pdf-services/api/tasks/{task-id}` until `COMPLETED`, then download `resultDocumentId`\n3. Read the body of a 429. It means either the rate limit (15 a minute in sandbox, 100 in production) or `QUOTA_EXCEEDED` when credits run out\n4. Keep uploads under 100 MB, and delete documents with `DELETE /pdf-services/api/documents/{document-id}` when done. Deletion is permanent\n5. With the MCP server, pass only paths the task needs. `upload_document` reads any `file://` path and `download_document` writes to any absolute path\n\n### iLoveAPI\n\n1. Run four calls per job. `GET /v1/start/{tool}/{region}` returns a `server` and a `task`, then send upload, process and download to that server\n2. Sign a JWT with the project secret key and send it as `Authorization: Bearer`. Tokens expire after one hour\n3. Download results promptly. The reference says files are deleted one to two hours after processing, depending on tier\n4. Back off exponentially on 429 and read the rate-limit headers on each response. No limit numbers are published\n5. Add `debug=true` to any request to have the server echo the parameters without processing or spending credits\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Foxit PDF Services API or iLoveAPI?\n\nFoxit PDF Services API scores 48.3 (D) on agent readiness against iLoveAPI's 42 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. iLoveAPI leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Foxit PDF Services API and iLoveAPI need an API key?\n\nFoxit PDF Services API uses an OAuth sign-in. iLoveAPI needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Foxit PDF Services API and iLoveAPI without installing anything?\n\nYes. Foxit PDF Services API has a hosted endpoint at https://na1.fusion.foxit.com/pdf-services and iLoveAPI at https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-iloveapi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foxit-pdf-services-vs-iloveapi.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"foxit-pdf-services\", \"b\": \"iloveapi\"}`. 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