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title: "Pricing per tool"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dws-processor/pricing/pricing-per-tool/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dws-processor/pricing/pricing-per-tool.md"
last_updated: "2026-05-20T19:49:34.807Z"
description: "Learn how usage credits are applied per tool in Nutrient DWS Processor API plans, ensuring you only pay for the API calls you make based on their cost."
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# Pricing per tool

Every Nutrient DWS Processor API plan comes with a pool of usage credits. Each time you call the API with your live key, we subtract only what the job costs — nothing more. Lightweight requests sip credits, and heavyweight processing uses a bit more. You always pay in line with the value delivered.

If you need to return from this per-tool pricing view to broader evaluation or setup, continue to [Processor API pricing](/api/pricing/processor-api/) for credits and commercial review, [getting started](/guides/dws-processor/getting-started.md) for API key setup and a first request, the [REST API reference](/api/reference/public/) for endpoint details, or the [Processor API overview](/api/processor-api/) for broader product context.

## General

| Tool               | Credits per use                                        |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| PDF generator      |     |
| PDF creator        |     |
| PDF writer         |     |
| PDF OCR            |                 |
| PDF watermark      |     |
| Redaction          |           |
| Annotations        |         |
| Form filling       |         |
| Form creator       |         |
| PDF security       |     |
| Digital signatures |  |

## PDF Editor API

| Tool           | Credits per use                                     |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Merge          |  |
| Split          |  |
| Duplicate      |  |
| Delete         |  |
| Flatten        |      |
| Rotate         |  |
| Add page       |  |
| Set page label |  |
| JSON import    |      |
| XFDF import    |      |

## Document Optimization

| Tool               | Credits per use                                   |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- |
| PDF optimization   |    |
| Image optimization |    |
| PDF linearization  |  |

## Document Archiving

| Tool             | Credits per use                          |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| Convert to PDF/A |  |
| Validate PDF/A   |  |

## Data Extraction

| Tool                      | Credits per use                                     |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Text extraction           |  |
| Key-value pair extraction |  |
| Image-to-text             |  |

## Table Extraction

| Tool         | Credits per use                                              |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| PDF-to-Excel |  |
| PDF-to-JSON  |           |

## Converter API

| Tool            | Credits per use                                              |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Office-to-PDF   |         |
| Image-to-PDF    |          |
| HTML-to-PDF     |           |
| PDF-to-image    |           |
| PDF-to-Office   |  |
| PDF-to-HTML     |               |
| PDF-to-Markdown |                 |

## Multi-step conversions

Some conversions require multiple processing steps and consume credits for each step.

| Tool            | Credits per use                                                                                             |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Office-to-image |  +  |
| HTML-to-image   |  +    |

## AI Tools

| Tool         | Credits per page                          |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| AI redaction |  |

## Additional API Features

| Tool                  | Credits per use                                           |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| CAD-to-PDF            |      |
| Comments              |               |
| Electronic signatures |  |
| Email-to-PDF          |       |
| Office templating     |      |

For the most up-to-date pricing information, refer to the [pricing and plans section](https://dashboard.nutrient.io/processor-api/pricing/) in your DWS Processor API dashboard.
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## Related pages

- [Calculate credit usage](/guides/dws-processor/pricing/calculate-credit-usage.md)
- [Pricing](/guides/dws-processor/pricing.md)