# 0xPdf Now: Pay-as-You-Go Wallet, Free First Parse, $5 Welcome Credit & MCP

> Source: <https://dev.to/rishamax/0xpdf-now-pay-as-you-go-wallet-free-first-parse-5-welcome-credit-mcp-2bec>
> Published: 2026-07-15 16:53:12+00:00

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.

| Feature | What it means |
|---|---|
Pay as you go |
~$6 / 1,000 text pages, ~$24 / 1,000 OCR pages — no subscription |
Prepaid wallet |
Top up from $5, spend down as you parse |
Free first parse |
Your first successful parse is free (no hold / no debit) |
$5 welcome credit |
After first parse + card on file, once |
MCP |
Same API for Cursor / Claude / agents |
Try free |
|

Most PDF APIs push you into seats or opaque “credits.” We wanted something developers and agents can reason about:

No annual commit. No “contact sales” to see a price.

Live estimator + details: [0xpdf.io/pricing](https://0xpdf.io/pricing?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features)

Approximate published rates (USD):

The API routes born-digital pages through fast text extraction and image-only pages through OCR. You pay for what actually ran.

AI schema generation is also wallet-billed (small per-call amount on the same ledger).

Balance lives in a **prepaid wallet** on your account:

Top up from the dashboard when you’re ready for production volume.

Activation shouldn’t require a credit card dance.

**Policy:** your **first successful parse is free** — no wallet hold and no debit for that success.

After 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.

When you’ve completed a first parse **and** added a payment method, we grant a **$5 signup / welcome credit** once.

Promo line we use in-product:

$5 credit when you add a card after your first parse.

It’s meant to cover early experiments after you’ve proven the schema fit — not a forever free plan.

Same auth + wallet as the HTTP API, exposed as MCP tools:

Discovery / setup: [0xpdf.io/docs#mcp](https://0xpdf.io/docs#mcp?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=payg-features)

Agents shouldn’t need a separate “enterprise MCP SKU.” If the wallet can pay for a `curl`

, it can pay for a tool call.

Still schema-first:

```
curl -X POST "https://api.0xpdf.io/api/v1/pdf/parse" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -F "file=@invoice.pdf" \
  -F "schema_template=invoice"
```

Python: `pip install oxpdf`

· JS: `npm install @0xpdf/client`

Docs: [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)

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