How does PDFShift counts credits ?
You might have noticed that our plans don't count "per documents" but per credits.
The reason is simple is aligned with CPU usage: Generating a big document will be more resource intensive than a small one, so we applied this logic to the pricing.
For this reason, we consider one credit to represent a conversion of under 5Mb.
When you generate a document, we take the generated filesize in Mb, and divide it by 5 (rounded to the highest number).
This will gives us the credits used for your conversion.
For example:
A 4Mb document will count as 1 credit
A 23Mb document will count as 5 credits (23 / 5)
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