PDF Monkey

PDF Monkey is a PDF generation REST API that uses Handlebars templates to produce high-quality PDFs from JSON data. Developers build templates in a visual dashboard, call the API with dynamic JSON payloads, and retrieve generated documents via signed download URLs or webhooks. The service supports document management, asynchronous and synchronous generation, webhook notifications powered by Svix, fillable PDF forms, password protection, and integrations with Zapier, Make, and n8n.

PDF Monkey publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Authentication API, Documents API, and Templates API. Tagged areas include PDF, Document Generation, Templates, Handlebars, and REST API.

The PDF Monkey catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

PDF Monkey’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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32.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 published contracts

PDF Document Generation TemplatesHandlebarsREST API Webhook

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 32.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
PDF and Document Standards (PDF tooling, document signing trust, invoice documents)	undeclared	-	-	-
Bubble Plugin Marketplace (official vendor plugins on Bubble)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

PDF

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

PDF Monkey Authentication API

Endpoints for verifying API credentials and retrieving account information

PDF Monkey Documents API

Create, retrieve, update, delete, and list PDF documents

PDF Monkey Templates API

Manage document templates for PDF generation

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

PDF Monkey Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

PDFMonkey Document Cards API

OPEN COLLECTION

PDF Monkey Authentication Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

PDF Monkey Authentication Templates API

OPEN COLLECTION

PDFMonkey API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pdf Monkey Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pdf Monkey Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Pdf Monkey Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Pdf Monkey Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

PDF Monkey — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

DocumentTemplate

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Document

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Create Document Sync

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Create Document

4 fields

EXAMPLE

List Documents

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Pdf Monkey Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pdf Monkey Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pdf Monkey Agentic Access

13 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pdf-monkey
name: PDF Monkey
description: PDF Monkey is a PDF generation REST API that uses Handlebars templates to produce high-quality PDFs from JSON
  data. Developers build templates in a visual dashboard, call the API with dynamic JSON payloads, and retrieve generated
  documents via signed download URLs or webhooks. The service supports document management, asynchronous and synchronous generation,
  webhook notifications powered by Svix, fillable PDF forms, password protection, and integrations with Zapier, Make, and
  n8n.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pdf-monkey.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pdf-monkey/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-13
modified: '2026-08-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- PDF
- Document Generation
- Templates
- Handlebars
- REST API
- Webhook
tags_raw:
- PDF
- Document Generation
- Templates
- Handlebars
- REST API
- Webhooks
apis:
- aid: pdf-monkey:pdf-monkey-authentication-api
  name: PDF Monkey Authentication API
  description: Endpoints for verifying API credentials and retrieving account information
  humanURL: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pdf-monkey-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/api/authentication/
- aid: pdf-monkey:pdf-monkey-documents-api
  name: PDF Monkey Documents API
  description: Create, retrieve, update, delete, and list PDF documents
  humanURL: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pdf-monkey-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/api/authentication/
- aid: pdf-monkey:pdf-monkey-templates-api
  name: PDF Monkey Templates API
  description: Manage document templates for PDF generation
  humanURL: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.pdfmonkey.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pdf-monkey-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/api/authentication/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pdf-monkey-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pdf-monkey-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pdf-monkey-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.pdfmonkey.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/pdfmonkey
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pdfmonkey/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.pdfmonkey.io/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.pdfmonkey.io/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.pdfmonkey.io/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/pdfmonkey
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pdf-monkey-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pdf-monkey-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/pdf-monkey-finops.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pdfmonkey
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-merged-from:
- pdfmonkey

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