Acrobat Services API licensing: free tier, enterprise and transactions

How PDF Services, Document Generation and PDF Extract APIs are licensed, and how to estimate volume.

Free tier

Developers can start with a free tier with a monthly cap on document transactions — enough to build and test flows.

Enterprise

Production use is licensed through an enterprise plan sized by annual document transactions. Each API operation on a document counts as one or more transactions depending on the operation and page count.

Estimate your volume

  • List each flow and its operations (e.g. OCR + compress = 2 operations).
  • Multiply by monthly documents.
  • Add 20–30% headroom for growth and retries.

Licensing terms change. This guide reflects our understanding at the time of writing and is not an official Adobe or Microsoft document — confirm current terms with your reseller.