# CloudConvert API (slim)

> File conversion API from Lunaweb GmbH in Germany. Jobs chain import, convert, merge, optimise, watermark and PDF tasks across more than 200 formats, through a REST API, six SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudconvert.md (~7,200 tokens) · this version ~1,780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudconvert.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudconvert
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-10

**B · 66.4/100 · rank #291 of 950 · #2 in PDF tools · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: API keys and OAuth tokens carry six scopes, the terms promise 99.9 per cent monthly uptime with refunds, and uploaded files are deleted within 24 hours. No OpenAPI document or changelog was found, and the per-credit price is drawn by a script on the pricing page.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: CloudConvert (Lunaweb GmbH) · category: PDF tools · legal entity: Lunaweb GmbH · provenance 85/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.cloudconvert.com/v2` (HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under CloudConvert's terms of service. The SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surfaces: REST API v2 at `https://api.cloudconvert.com/v2`, a synchronous host at `https://sync.api.cloudconvert.com/v2`, a hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.cloudconvert.com`, signed URLs, a Socket.io feed, and a CLI
- Operations: `convert`, `optimize`, `watermark`, `capture-website`, `thumbnail`, `merge`, `archive`, `metadata`, `command` (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick) and eight `pdf/` operations for PDF/A, PDF/X, OCR, encrypt, decrypt, split, extract and rotate
- Formats: 212 formats in 11 groups per the home page, 23 of them document formats
- Import and export: URL, upload, Base64 or raw string in. S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, OpenStack and SFTP both ways. `export/url` links last 24 hours
- MCP tools: 24. Ten file tools, eight PDF tools, and `getUser`, `getOperations`, `createJob`, `getJobs`, `getJob`, `getTask`. Input files must be HTTP or HTTPS URLs
- Credentials: API keys with six scopes, revocable, no expiry. OAuth 2.0 authorisation code and implicit grants. Webhooks and signed URLs are signed with HMAC SHA-256
- Rate limits: Dynamic limits on creating jobs and tasks, with `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `Retry-After` on 429. Free plan runs 5 concurrent tasks
- Regions: `eu-central` (Germany) and `us-east` (Virginia), chosen by nearest IP, by region host or by account setting
- Sandbox: `https://sandbox.api.cloudconvert.com/v2`, unlimited jobs with no credits, for a fixed set of approved test files
- SLA: 99.9 per cent monthly uptime on packages, subscriptions and enterprise plans, per the terms and the pricing table
- SDKs: PHP 3.4.4 (29 July 2026), Java 1.2.5 and Ruby 1.2.0 (24 August 2026), .NET 1.4.2 (30 April 2026), Node.js 3.0.0 (24 April 2025), Python 2.1.0, plus a Laravel package and CLI 3.0.1 (21 July 2026), all MIT
- Data retention: Files and tasks deleted after 24 hours at the latest, or at once on delete. Account data within 72 hours of account deletion. Logs 180 days
- Hosting: Amazon Web Services, OVH and Hetzner in Germany, and OVH US for US traffic, per the privacy policy of 17 April 2026
- Certification: ISO 27001 for Lunaweb GmbH's ISMS from TÜV Süd, per the security page. DPA signed on request for paid plans

- Scores: Reliability 80, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 59, Agent ergonomics 71, Security & auth 71, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 68, Transparency & trust 75 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded as a hosted service. · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI document was found in the docs or llms.txt. · Agent ergonomics, The MCP server lists 24 tools, the 11 to 30 band, and the API returns links and status objects with an `include` parameter for the larger pa… · Security & auth, API keys are created with any of six scopes and can be revoked, and OAuth 2.0 issues tokens for third-party clients, though the implicit gra… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, The MCP server was announced on 3 September 2026, 36 days before this check (20). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with dated terms that cover API use, and MIT SDKs (18).
- Sources: 25, open questions: 6, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: pdf.convert, pdf.merge, pdf.generate, docs.ocr
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudconvert.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/cloudconvert.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudconvert from a page on cloudconvert.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/cloudconvert/cloudconvert-node, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Build each job from an import task, one or more processing tasks and an `export/url` task, then read the download links from the export task's `result.files`
2. Call `GET /v2/operations` with `include=options` to find the options a format pair accepts before creating a `convert` task
3. Do not retry a failed task automatically. CloudConvert retries retryable errors itself, and a retry endpoint creates a new task
4. Download output within 24 hours. Tasks, files and export URLs are deleted after that
5. Use `https://sandbox.api.cloudconvert.com/v2` for tests. It consumes no credits and accepts only a fixed set of approved test files

## Connect

```bash
npm install -g cloudconvert-cli
```

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.cloudconvert.com/v2/jobs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tasks":{"import-my-file":{"operation":"import/url","url":"https://my.url/file.docx"},"convert-my-file":{"operation":"convert","input":"import-my-file","output_format":"pdf"},"export-my-file":{"operation":"export/url","input":"convert-my-file"}}}'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/cloudconvert

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