Pricing
Pricing.
One license covers five named users. Pay monthly, or prepay a longer term for a discount. The AI assistant is optional and priced per person, so you only pay for the people who use it.
5 users per license · local processing, no upload · Windows and browser
What is CompendiumPDF?
CompendiumPDF is a PDF editor for Windows and the browser that reads, edits, builds, converts, redacts, protects and signs PDF documents on your own computer. OCR, conversion and redaction run locally, so your files aren’t uploaded anywhere. One license costs $25 a month and covers 5 named users.
Pricing
Every term, every price
One license covers 5 named users. Prices below are for a single license.
| Term | Discount | Total | Effective monthly | Per user |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | — | $25 | $25/mo | $5/mo |
| 1 year | 5% | $285 | $23.75/mo | $4.75/mo |
| 2 years | 10% | $540 | $22.50/mo | $4.50/mo |
| 3 years | 20% | $720 | $20/mo | $4/mo |
| 4 years | 30% | $840 | $17.50/mo | $3.50/mo |
| 5 years | 40% | $900 | $15/mo | $3/mo |
The AI assistant — document summaries, questions about a document, drafting help and image generation — is $5 per user per month, and is optional. You only pay for the people who turn it on.
What it does
Everything happens on your computer
Edit and build
Change text in place, add text and images, headers, footers, watermarks, backgrounds and Bates numbering. Build PDFs from images or from scratch.
Convert
Export to Word, Excel, plain text and images. Build PDFs from images. Everything runs locally.
Protect
AES encryption with open and permissions passwords, granular permissions, metadata sanitizing, and redaction that genuinely removes content.
Straight answers
What it does today, and what it doesn’t
CompendiumPDF covers about 43% of Acrobat Pro’s published feature list, concentrated in the work most teams actually do.
Built and working
- Edit text in place; add text, images, headers, footers and watermarks
- Insert, delete, extract, rotate, reorder, split and merge pages
- Fill and build forms, then flatten
- Offline OCR in English, Spanish, French and German
- Export to Word, Excel, plain text and images
- AES encryption, permissions and metadata sanitizing
- Redaction that genuinely removes content
- Bates numbering
- E-signature through Compendium Sign
Not built yet
- Accessibility tagging, PDF/UA Not yet
- Prepress, preflight, PDF/X Not yet
- Batch automation Not yet
- Importing Office files to PDF Not yet
- Convert to PowerPoint Not yet
- Image editing Not yet
If you need those, Acrobat Pro is still the better tool — the full comparison is here.
Questions, answered
What does it cost?
One license is $25 a month and covers five named users, which works out at about $5 per person. Prepaying a year takes 5% off, and five years takes 40% off. An optional AI assistant is $5 per user per month.
How much is the AI assistant?
The AI assistant (document summaries, questions about a document, drafting help and image generation) is $5 per user per month and optional. You only pay for the people who turn it on.
What happens if I stop paying?
The application drops to read-only. You can still open, read, search, annotate and print every document you have. You’re never locked out of your own files.
Does CompendiumPDF upload my documents?
No. Opening, editing, OCR, conversion, compression and redaction all run on your own computer. The only time a document is transmitted is if you explicitly send it for signature through Compendium Sign.
Does it work offline?
Yes. The Windows application is fully offline. It checks its license every 45 days, and if it can’t reach the internet it keeps working normally within that window.
Can I use it in a browser?
Yes. There’s a browser version that runs the same engine, so the PDF is still processed on your device rather than on a server.
Is CompendiumPDF a drop-in replacement for Acrobat Pro?
Not for every workflow. It covers about 43% of Acrobat Pro’s published feature list, concentrated in editing, page operations, forms, OCR, redaction, conversion and signature. It doesn’t yet do accessibility tagging, prepress and preflight, batch automation or Office-format import.
How is redaction different from drawing a black box?
A black box leaves the original text in the file, where it can still be extracted. CompendiumPDF converts the affected pages to images so the underlying text is destroyed rather than hidden.
Which languages does the OCR support?
English, Spanish, French and German.
What does the installer include?
One installer covers CompendiumPDF, CompendiumWP and Compendium LECX, and it installs without administrator rights.
Get started
Buy a license and set up your account in one pass, then download the installer. One installer covers CompendiumPDF, CompendiumWP and Compendium LECX, and installs without administrator rights.
$25 a month · 5 users per license · read-only, never locked out, if you cancel