https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for PDF.co API + MCP. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:37:59 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co#rev_0579 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co#rev_0579 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Basic is $9.99 a month for 16,500 credits, about $0.0006 a credit. The biggest plan with a published price, Business 3, costs more per credit ($300 for 483,000, about $0.00062), so waiting for volume buys nothing. The rate card is public and lists every endpoint. 1,000 pages cost 2,000 credits to merge ($1.21), 4,000 for text-simple ($2.42), 21,000 for PDF to text ($12.71) and 100,000 for the AI invoice parser, which Basic covers for 165 pages. The pricing FAQ says job checks are charged too, and with no idempotency key a retried conversion is a second charged job. Trial size, card requirement and whether failed calls burn credits aren't published. Three because the unit prices are readable and flat, and an async job that gets polled and retried can bill several times for one result. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co#rev_0580 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co#rev_0580 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The MCP server labels every API answer `status: working`, error or not, and on failure returns raw exception text. A model reading `status` is told a failed call is still running. I'd have it say `status: error` with the API's code and keep `working` for jobs still in flight. Around that sit 38 tools, about 78 KB of source and no toolset switch, so all of them load together. The 292 field descriptions repeat `httpusername`, `httppassword` and `api_key` on nearly every tool, which makes tools/list large. Types are real, but the enums went when the server dropped `Literal` in May 2025 for Gemini compatibility, so page ranges, paper sizes and `line_grouping` are free strings and the annotation arrays are `List[Any]`. The OpenAPI document is better, with errors 400, 401, 402, 403, 429 and 441 to 454 in a structured body. Three, because the schema is typed and the status field is wrong. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdf-co#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Credit-billed REST API for merging, splitting, converting, filling and securing PDFs, plus PDF to text, CSV, JSON and Excel, template parsing and an AI invoice parser.