PDF As You Go pricing — a flat $0.05 per operation, paid per call over x402 in USDC. No accounts, no subscriptions, no minimums.
PDF As You Go has one price for everything:
$0.05 / operation
Flat, per operation, regardless of file size or page count. No subscription, no minimums, no prepaid credits — your agent pays only for what it uses, per call over x402.
One call = one operation
Section titled “One call = one operation”Each invocation is one billable operation. A task that chains several operations is billed per call:
| Task | Operations | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Merge two PDFs | 1 | $0.05 |
| Merge, then watermark | 2 | $0.10 |
| Extract pages, rotate, add a password | 3 | $0.15 |
All 12 operations cost the same. There are no tiers and no size brackets, so an agent can reason about cost up front — every tool call it might make costs a known amount.
What you’re not charged for
Section titled “What you’re not charged for”- Failed operations. Invalid input, a wrong password, an unreachable URL, a corrupt file — if it fails, it isn’t charged. See Errors & failures.
- Accounts or seats. There are none.
- Idle time. There’s nothing to subscribe to, so there’s nothing to pay when you’re not using it.
What you need to pay
Section titled “What you need to pay”- A wallet your client can sign x402 payments with.
- USDC on a supported network (Base by default). At
$0.05 per operation,
50000USDC base units cover one call. - That’s it — no card on file, no invoice, no API key.
The onchain cost to settle a payment is roughly $0.0001, paid as part of the transfer; there is no separate fee from PDF As You Go.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Operations & pricing — the cost model in context.
- Wallets & networks — funding and base-unit math.
- x402 payments — how each call is paid.