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

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.

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 Built by 0xPdf https://0xpdf.io/?utm source=devto&utm medium=article&utm campaign=payg-features .