Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Api2Pdf, an API for Converting HTML, URLs, and Office Docs to PDF launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1PA
   PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents▲204

   Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark, edit, and flatten a document — all in one call. Available actions [2]: - PDF Generator - PDF Converter - Image Converter - OCR - Watermark - Merge - Split - Duplicate - Delete - Flatten Our…

   2022 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Api2Pdf▲3

   Generate PDFs from HTML, URLs, and Office Documents

   2018 · api2pdf.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   PDFShift▲386

   Convert any HTML to PDF with a single POST request.

   2018 · pdfshift.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   PDF merge API▲98

   Create PDF documents from data and templates

   2024 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   PlutoPDF▲110

   A URL to PDF converter wrapped behind a simple API.

   2021 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   EasyPDFAPI▲8

   Convert HTML documents to PDF with Easy PDF API

   2024 · its alternatives →

7. 7PF
   PDFs from HTML▲742

   2021 · pdf.math.dev · its alternatives →

8. 8
   PDF Generator API▲15

   Creating PDF files made easy

   2024 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   HelloPDF▲172

   Generating a PDF from a URL has never been easier

   2019 · hellopdf.co · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Pdfbix▲59

    Scalable REST API to generate PDF

    2021 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    WkHTMLtoPDF Service▲114

    Render HTML to PDF without the headache of infrastructure

    2021 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Renderdo▲73

    The API to convert anything into PDF

    2023 · its alternatives →

13. 13TA
    ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hosted on AWS▲41

    Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…

    2018 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    WebPDF▲103

    Simple PDF API & web toolkit

    2024 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    url2pdf.it▲3

    Convert any web URL to PDF, API available.

    2019 · url2pdf.it · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Docuest▲18

    Convert HTML to PDF quickly and cost-effectively with API

    2025 · docuest.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    html2pdf.app▲9

    High-quality HTML to PDF conversion API

    2021 · html2pdf.app · its alternatives →

18. 18
    PDFmyURL▲82

    Turn web pages into PDFs with a single click!

    2017 · pdfmyurl.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    GeneratePDFs ▲8

    Convert HTML to clean PDFs with one simple API call

    Dec 2025 · generatepdfs.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Docstron▲7

    The PDF Generation API for Developers

    Nov 2025 · docstron.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    RESTful API to Generate PDF from HTML using Chromium▲7

    A RESTful API to generate PDF converting from HTML - tecnospeed/pastor

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Drive2pdf▲2

    Generate PDFs from Docs & Sheets in one API

    Feb 2026 · dmdlang.dev · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Generate pdf with gitbook or mdbook url▲96

    GitBook to PDF. Contribute to lufengd3/htmlbook2pdf development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    HTML to PDF API▲3

    Turn HTML & web pages into PDFs with one API call

    Aug 2026 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →

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