Puppeteer
crashed.
Again.
The HTML-to-PDF API for backend engineers who need pixel-perfect invoices, reports, and certificates — without provisioning a single server.
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Your CSS renders.
Exactly as designed.
wkhtmltopdf silently collapses Flexbox columns and ignores CSS Grid, forcing teams to maintain a separate print stylesheet that slowly drifts from production. This API runs headless Chromium — the same engine as Chrome — so if it renders in your browser, it renders in your PDF. No regressions on deploy, no dual codebase, no surprises.
Ship PDFs.
Not Kubernetes YAML.
Provisioning, memory-leak monitoring, crash recovery, and cold-start tuning — self-hosted Puppeteer is a part-time job disguised as a free dependency. Pay-per-use means you pay only when you generate, with auto-scaling to zero and burst capacity handled transparently. The engineering hours saved in month one pay for a full year of API calls.
10,000 invoices.
One API call.
End-of-month billing runs, bulk certificate generation, nightly report batches — submit thousands of jobs in a single request and receive a webhook when each completes. No polling loops, no DIY job queues, no timeout babysitting. Your batch saturates our worker fleet, not your application server.
PDF lands in your
bucket. Done.
Every team using a cloud PDF API eventually writes the same S3 upload boilerplate — fetch binary, stream to storage, generate signed URL, handle errors. Configure your bucket once and every PDF travels directly from the renderer to your storage, signed URL included in the response. That's hundreds of codebases shipping identical boilerplate, fixed in a single config field.
Errors that tell you
what broke.
Generic "conversion failed" is the industry standard — providers return one error code whether JavaScript timed out, a font failed to load, or CSS crashed the renderer. Every failed request here returns structured JSON with precise failure context: which selector didn't resolve, which script threw, which resource 404'd. Pair that with per-request execution logs and you go from blank PDF to fixed without a support ticket.
// 422 — always structured, always actionable
{
"error": {
"code": "RESOURCE_LOAD_FAILURE",
"message": "Font failed to load",
"context": {
"url": "https://cdn.co/brand.woff2",
"status": 404,
"selector": ".invoice-header"
},
"log_url": "https://api.pdflayer.dev/logs/req_01HZ..."
}
}Start rendering PDFs in the next 10 minutes.
Real Chromium. Real S3 delivery. Pricing you can predict on a napkin.
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