IBM Cloud Pak for Applications vs. pdfRest — PDF API Service

IBM Cloud Pak for Applications

pdfRest — PDF API Service

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications	Score 7.2 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Pak® for Applications (CP4Apps) is an end-to-end hybrid cloud application platform, providing flexibility for deployments, building new cloud-native applications, refactoring and re-platforming existing applications. Designed to leverage a collection of application runtimes, modernization tools and a Kubernetes container platform to adapt to their landscape needs.	N/A
pdfRest — PDF API Service	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	pdfRest is an enterprise-grade REST API platform used by developers and businesses to integrate PDF processing into applications and automated workflows. It provides APIs for converting, modifying, extracting, optimizing, and securing PDF documents programmatically. pdfRest supports integration with any development language as well as low-code and no-code platforms, making it easy to embed PDF processing into a wide range of applications and workflows. All…	$0 per month 100 calls per month

Pricing

IBM Cloud Pak for Applications

pdfRest — PDF API Service

Editions & Modules

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Starter: $0
per month 100 calls per month
Premium: $9.99
per month 600 calls per month
Pro: $99.99
per month 5,000 calls per month
Enterprise: $349.99
per month 15,000 calls per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications	pdfRest — PDF API Service
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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When signing up with an account and selecting a plan, a unique API Key is offered that grants access to send API Calls to any of the pdfRest API Tools. Each calendar month, the total number of API Calls will be tallied, and users are billed for the base plan plus any overage accrued when the monthly API Calls are in excess of the plan's monthly allotment. This count starts over at zero on the first day of each month. Each plan has a maximum upload file size limit and a time duration indicating how long files will persist on the processing server before removal.

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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Pak for Applications	pdfRest — PDF API Service
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Pak for Applications	pdfRest — PDF API Service
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM Well suited for customers who are looking for cloud-adoption, and finally to meet the challenges of business innovation for the competitive advantage through DevOps. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	pdfRest No answers on this topic
Pros	IBM Provides a fantastic range of Application runtimes allowing the most suitable runtime to be selected for the app being implemented. After using Transformation Advisor for quite a while, it is an indispensable tool to help modernize, specifically from WebSphere and Tomcat, towards the lightweight, fast and efficient Liberty runtime. The simplicity of the licensing by wrapping many products into a single offering with a different VPC weighting. Allows us to modernize our runtime from WebSphere Application Server (or ND) to WebSphere Liberty core without sacrificing our WAS licenses. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	pdfRest No answers on this topic
Cons	IBM User Experience and Learning Curve Integration with Third-party Tools Pricing and Licensing Model Incentivized Nelson Lopez CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review	pdfRest No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	IBM Our customer mission-critical core banking applications like Temenos T24 run on best of the breed IBM WebSphere Application Server which is java based-application server. IBM has kept up the promise of providing support, fixpack, and any update. As far as I know, at least by 2030, IBM is committed to continue with WHE which gives customers confidence in their current investments. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	pdfRest No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	IBM We have been able to migrate apps away from the expensive WAS-ND to the more cost-effective WAS-base without throwing away our WAS-ND licenses. With a 1:4 ratio of WAS-ND to WAS-base we've been able to we've been able to save in excess of 75% on licensing charges for these apps. By having a license model based on VPC ratios (1:4:8 - WAS-ND:WAS-base:Liberty core) we've been able to move away from using license pooling resulting in over-allocating (i.e. wasting) CPU cores for each license pool, to using consolidated license pools hosting a combination of WAS-ND, WAS-base and Liberty-core. This has allowed us to reduce our licensing costs accordingly. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	pdfRest No answers on this topic
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