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SitePDF

HTML to PDF API that also keeps a dated copy of the page

One API call turns a URL or your HTML into a pixel perfect PDF and files a timestamped copy of what was rendered. No headless Chrome to babysit. Try it below, free, right in your browser.

Live demo

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. One PDF free to try, then a plan.

Your HTML

Live preview

Your PDF is downloading. That was the free one. The Starter plan converts as many as you need, for $49 a month or $288 a year, half price.

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One call, two deliverables

Nearly every PDF API hands you the file and forgets the page. SitePDF returns the document your user needs and keeps the record your auditor will ask for, from the same request. We compared the whole market, including the tools that beat us.

Render + archive in one call

Send a URL or raw HTML. Get back the finished PDF and, when you ask for it, a timestamped snapshot of exactly what was rendered, retrievable by API for the life of your retention window. How the archive works.

Real Chromium, real CSS, real fonts

Pages render in managed Chromium, not a CSS-subset engine from 2011. Your web fonts load, your JavaScript runs, and wait-for-selector holds the shot until your charts are on screen. Converting live pages.

Stop babysitting Puppeteer

Memory leaks, font packages, render drift after every Chrome release, 3am restarts: that is the real price of the "free" library. Replace the fleet with one HTTP call and a flat per-render cost. The honest math.

Audit-ready, timestamped records

Every archived render carries its capture time and source. When legal asks what the page said in March, you answer with a retrievable snapshot, not a screenshot from someone's laptop. Data handling and retention.

Send. Render. Get PDF + archive.

  1. 1

    Send a URL or raw HTML

    One POST to /v1/render with the page and your layout options: size, orientation, margins, headers and footers.

  2. 2

    We render it in managed Chromium

    Full CSS and JavaScript, web fonts, wait-for-selector for late content. The fleet, the scaling and the patching are our problem.

  3. 3

    You get the PDF, and the record

    The response links the finished document and, with archive=true, the timestamped snapshot you can retrieve forever after.

The API call shape 
curl https://api.sitepdf.com/v1/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SITEPDF_KEY" \
  -d url="https://example.com/invoice/1042" \
  -d format=A4 \
  -d archive=true

{
  "pdf_url": ".../documents/doc_8f3k2.pdf",
  "archive": {
    "id": "arc_o2m91",
    "captured_at": "2026-07-11T09:14:02Z"
  }
}

The full request and response walkthrough is on how it works.

API pricing

Flat monthly tiers by render volume, with the archive included on every tier and yearly billing at half price.

Starter

$49 /mo

10,000 renders / mo

Recommended

Growth

$99 /mo

50,000 renders / mo

Scale

$299 /mo

250,000 renders / mo

Enterprise

Custom

Committed volume, legal hold, DPA

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For engineering and compliance leaders

The ROI case

A self-hosted rendering fleet bills you in engineer-hours and on-call pages. A managed API bills you a predictable per-render price. The comparison usually ends after the first incident review.

The risk avoided

Every render can leave an audit-ready, timestamped snapshot behind. E-discovery, regulatory retention and "what did the page say" disputes get answered from the archive, with retention and deletion you control.

The enterprise fit

Invoicing and a DPA are available from day one, with SSO, roles and data residency options on the enterprise tier. We publish no uptime percentage and sign no availability SLA. The specifics are on the security page.

Fair questions

What can I use today?
The in-browser converter above: one PDF free, then the Starter plan at $49 a month or $288 a year for unlimited PDFs. The API renders and archives at volume, with tiers from $49 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly; you create your account with an email address.
Do I need a credit card?
Not for the first PDF and not to create an API account. A card is needed when you buy a plan, through Stripe, and you can cancel it from your account at any time.
What do you store?
Nothing from a render unless you ask for an archive. The in-browser demo never uploads anything at all: your HTML is converted on your own machine.

More on the full FAQ, including how we compare to DocRaptor, PDFShift and self-hosting.

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Render and archive with one API call

A pixel perfect PDF and a dated copy of the page from the same request. Plans from $49 a month, half price billed yearly.

HTML to PDF, in your browser

One PDF free, then $24 a month billed yearly

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