When companies use a SaaS product, pricing is based on a monthly fee, usually charged by “seat” or user. Software Development Kit (SDK) pricing, however, is set up very differently. Our PDF SDK, for example, can be used in several ways, but it is sold as a product, not a service.  

Our customers use our SDKs in one of three ways, with licensing set up annually or multi-year. 

OEMs  

Our OEM customers incorporate Datalogics SDKs into applications for external distribution, for example products installed on local computers. Pricing is a flat annual fee per platform and royalty-based on product distribution and is based on how you license your product: a percentage of sales, a flat-fee per unit, or fix distribution. 

SaaS  

Customers using our SDKs in their externally accessible services hosted on their own servers license the software based on the number of servers deployed OR a customized model based on users, activations, quantity of documents processed, or revenue generated.   

End-Users 

This one is the easiest and most straightforward pricing and licensing model, as it is solely based on the number of servers or desktops where the software is directly deployed. 

Check out our comparison chart to see how APDFL stacks up against the competition.  

Adobe PDF Library’s capabilities include: 

• Compression 
• Document Conversion including Convert PDF to PDF/A 
• Flatten Transparencies 
• OCR (Optical character recognition) 
• Split/Merge PDFs 
• Security options such as Watermark and Redaction 
• Text Extraction and Text Search 
• Forms Management (XFA & AcroForm) 

And hundreds of other options for your PDF workflows. 

See our pricing page for information on our SDKs and command-line tools, and sign up for a free trial of Adobe PDF Library today.