PDFMonkey alternative: five PDF generation APIs with plans in US dollars

PDFMonkey alternative: the short answer and the price table

Five PDFMonkey alternatives priced in US dollars are CraftMyPDF, APITemplate.io, DocuGenerate, Doppio and DocRaptor, and their entry plans run from $15 to $29 a month on monthly billing, as read on October 10, 2026.

PDFMonkey's own pricing page shows no US-dollar price in either billing view, states that its prices exclude VAT and taxes, and says its infrastructure runs on European servers. Past 100% of the quota, the page says the API returns a quota exceeded error and no new documents are generated until the quota resets, unless pay-as-you-go is on. PDFMonkey's own free tier is 20 documents a month, and its 30-day trial covers 300 documents.

PDFMonkey itself is left out of the price column because its page shows no US-dollar price.

CraftMyPDF and APITemplate.io: two template tools from one team

CraftMyPDF is a drag-and-drop template editor that, it says, needs no HTML or CSS knowledge. Its Lite plan costs $29 a month on monthly billing and covers 1,200 PDFs or images and 6 templates. The default API endpoint is in Singapore, and a US East (N. Virginia) endpoint is available.

CraftMyPDF's About page calls APITemplate.io its sister product, so the two tools come from one team, and it points to APITemplate.io for HTML to PDF conversion through an API. PDF Basic is $24 a month on APITemplate.io's Bill Monthly view, for 3,000 PDFs and 20 templates. Its page opens on an annual view that reads $19 a month for the same plan, so the $24 here is the like-for-like monthly figure. See the PDF generation API guide for the category.

DocuGenerate, Doppio and DocRaptor: Word templates and HTML routes

DocuGenerate works from Word templates merged with JSON or spreadsheet data. Plus is $19 a month for 500 documents and 5 templates, with $0.04 for each additional document.

Doppio Premium is $16 a month for up to 4,000 documents and 5 templates, and its free Basic plan allows up to 400. Below its Pro plan, Doppio says renders pause until the next billing cycle once the quota is used.

DocRaptor Basic is $15 a month for 125 documents, with extra documents at 12 cents each. DocRaptor says it uses the Prince PDF generator and offers HTML to PDF; its Free plan allows no overage.

Which PDFMonkey alternative to pick, and who should stay

• CraftMyPDF for a visual editor billed in US dollars.
• APITemplate.io for HTML to PDF from the same team as CraftMyPDF.
• DocuGenerate for templates written in Word.
• Doppio for up to 4,000 documents at $16 a month.
• DocRaptor for the Prince engine.
• PDFMonkey for a team that wants documents processed on European servers, or that needs only the 300 documents a month of Starter and accepts a price that is not shown in US dollars.

CraftMyPDF's Free plan allows 50 PDFs or images a month and 3 templates, so one PDFMonkey template can be rebuilt and compared at no cost. CraftMyPDF vs PDFMonkey sets the two side by side, and the CraftMyPDF review covers the plan limits.