{"slug": "0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp", "title": "0xPdf Now: Pay-as-You-Go Wallet, Free First Parse, $5 Welcome Credit & MCP", "summary": "0xPdf has launched a pay-as-you-go pricing model for its schema-first PDF-to-JSON API, featuring a prepaid wallet, free first parse, and a $5 welcome credit. The service also offers an MCP server for AI agents, with transparent rates of ~$6 per 1,000 text pages and ~$24 per 1,000 OCR pages, no subscription required.", "body_md": "Schema-first PDF → JSON was the product. What’s new is how you **buy and use** it — no monthly plans, prepaid wallet, a real free first success, and an MCP server for agents.\n\n| Feature | What it means |\n|---|---|\nPay as you go |\n~$6 / 1,000 text pages, ~$24 / 1,000 OCR pages — no subscription |\nPrepaid wallet |\nTop up from $5, spend down as you parse |\nFree first parse |\nYour first successful parse is free (no hold / no debit) |\n$5 welcome credit |\nAfter first parse + card on file, once |\nMCP |\nSame API for Cursor / Claude / agents |\nTry free |\n|\n\nMost PDF APIs push you into seats or opaque “credits.” We wanted something developers and agents can reason about:\n\nNo annual commit. No “contact sales” to see a price.\n\nLive estimator + details: [0xpdf.io/pricing](https://0xpdf.io/pricing?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features)\n\nApproximate published rates (USD):\n\nThe API routes born-digital pages through fast text extraction and image-only pages through OCR. You pay for what actually ran.\n\nAI schema generation is also wallet-billed (small per-call amount on the same ledger).\n\nBalance lives in a **prepaid wallet** on your account:\n\nTop up from the dashboard when you’re ready for production volume.\n\nActivation shouldn’t require a credit card dance.\n\n**Policy:** your **first successful parse is free** — no wallet hold and no debit for that success.\n\nAfter that, continuing requires payment method + funds (as shown in the product / pricing UI). That matches how we want people to evaluate quality: real PDF → real JSON → then pay.\n\nWhen you’ve completed a first parse **and** added a payment method, we grant a **$5 signup / welcome credit** once.\n\nPromo line we use in-product:\n\n$5 credit when you add a card after your first parse.\n\nIt’s meant to cover early experiments after you’ve proven the schema fit — not a forever free plan.\n\nSame auth + wallet as the HTTP API, exposed as MCP tools:\n\nDiscovery / setup: [0xpdf.io/docs#mcp](https://0xpdf.io/docs#mcp?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features)\n\nAgents shouldn’t need a separate “enterprise MCP SKU.” If the wallet can pay for a `curl`\n\n, it can pay for a tool call.\n\nStill schema-first:\n\n```\ncurl -X POST \"https://api.0xpdf.io/api/v1/pdf/parse\" \\\n  -H \"X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY\" \\\n  -F \"file=@invoice.pdf\" \\\n  -F \"schema_template=invoice\"\n```\n\nPython: `pip install oxpdf`\n\n· JS: `npm install @0xpdf/client`\n\nDocs: [https://0xpdf.io/docs?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features](https://0xpdf.io/docs?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features)\n\nBuilt by [0xPdf](https://0xpdf.io/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/rishamax/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp-2bec", "published_at": "2026-07-15 16:53:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 17:11:42.595843+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["0xPdf"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp.jsonld"}}