PDFUA.io Validator
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PDFUA.io Validator, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PDFUA.io Validator's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud · Free | Free | 20 credits / month · both profiles, monitoring, and API · EN/FR reports · 30-day report retention |
| Cloud · Starter | $19 a month | 150 credits / month · 1-year evidence retention · email support · $19 /mo USD |
| Cloud · Growth | $49 a month | 500 credits / month · 1-year evidence retention · monitoring headroom for a whole estate · $49 /mo USD |
| Cloud · Pro | $249 a month | 5,000 credits / month · 3-year evidence retention · priority support · $249 /mo USD |
| Enterprise · On-premise · Agencies | Priced on request | Custom credits · stateless validation API container or self-hosted monitoring appliance · reseller workspaces · custom retention and credit pools · Custom pricing |
The facts
Each one read from PDFUA.io Validator's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agencies
- Agency and reseller workspaces provide isolated client organizations with credit budgets allocated from a shared pool, and workspace switches are audit-logged.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API
- The product provides an HTTP validation API using an API key and can return JSON or HTML reports for use from CI pipelines, document-management systems, or other apps.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audit evidence
- Reports include the verdict, errors and warnings, engine version, and the file's SHA-256 fingerprint, and can be re-rendered from the stored validation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Credit limits
- One credit covers each started 100 pages, an aborted validation costs one credit, and scheduled re-validation of a document with an unchanged SHA-256 fingerprint costs nothing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Early access
- The Validator is onboarding a small number of organizations through an early-access list, with priority for teams and agencies facing active compliance deadlines.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Findings
- Findings include severity, occurrence counts, structure path, page number, PDF object, and a text snippet; a privacy toggle can omit snippets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Input
- Users can upload PDFs, validate batches up to 200 MB, or provide a public URL for the Validator to fetch.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site names CI pipelines, document-management systems, and users' own apps as API use cases; it does not name specific third-party integrations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Reports are available in English or French, including official French WCAG criterion names, from the same stored validation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- The Validator can discover PDFs across domains and schedule daily, weekly, or monthly re-validation with alerts for regressions, fetch failures, and exhausted credits.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- The Validator checks PDFs against WCAG 2.1 AA or strict PDF/UA-1 (ISO 14289-1) and keeps audit-ready evidence.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- Enterprise options include a stateless validation API container that stores nothing or a self-hosted monitoring appliance with groups, schedules, and domain scanning.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- The site footer says PDFUA.io is built in Canada; the Validator page says it was built by the team behind the PDFUA.io generation engine.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Canadachecked 28 Sep 2026
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