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A studio, an API, and about a tenth of the price per PDF.
Leafwright is a PDF API with a studio on top. POST raw HTML, a public URL, or a Handlebars template to one endpoint and get a signed link back; design, brand-check, and publish those templates in an AI-assisted studio that runs the same engine; let agents render over MCP. Pro is $79 for 15,000 PDFs a month — about half a cent per document.
DocRaptor sells the Prince XML engine as an API, and for advanced print CSS — mixed page sizes, footnotes, crop marks, CMYK, tagged PDFs — Prince is genuinely better than any Chromium-based service, Leafwright included. What you pay for it: 6–12¢ per document on the popular tiers, a dashboard that is render logs rather than a template studio, and callbacks that fire on success only. If your documents don't use Prince's print features, you're paying Prince prices for output Chromium produces too.
curl -X POST https://leafwright.co/api/v1/templates/tpl_9f2/render \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LEAFWRIGHT_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "data": { "invoice_no": "1042", "total": "$1,250.00" } }'
# Brand kit applied automatically: logo, colors, footer, disclaimerAI drafts the template, the brand kit locks fonts and colors, a11y and print checks run before publish — then every render is one call with fresh data. On DocRaptor, templating is your problem: the API takes document_content or document_url per request. How templates work →
| Feature | Leafwright | DocRaptor | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price at volume | $79 → 15,000 PDFs/month — about 0.5¢ each. | $75 → 1,250/month (6¢ each); 15,000/month costs $399 on Bronze. | Leafwright |
| Template studio | AI draft → brand kit → canvas → a11y/print checks → publish → render by ID. | No template product; the dashboard is render logs and account management. | Leafwright |
| MCP for AI agents | Remote server at leafwright.co/mcp (OAuth 2.1) and local @leafwright/mcp. | Not stated on docraptor.com (September 2026). | Leafwright |
| Webhooks | Signed webhooks on success and failure; delivery to a signed URL or your own S3/GCS bucket. | callback_url fires on success only — errors never call back. | Leafwright |
| Free tier | 100 PDFs per month, $0, no card. | 5 documents per month, plus unlimited watermarked test renders. | Leafwright |
| Print engine | Chromium 151, version-pinned — excellent for the HTML/CSS documents your app already styles. | Prince XML 11.4–15.1 — the reference engine for CSS Paged Media, a class above Chromium for advanced print. | DocRaptor This is DocRaptor's real moat. If you use it, stay. |
| Document caps | 200 pages per PDF; HTML 250 KB, CSS 120 KB. | No hard page cap (hosted output under 100 MB). | DocRaptor |
| Output formats & render-time JS | PDF only; no JavaScript at render time. | JavaScript optional; HTML-to-XLS/XLSX export. | DocRaptor |
| Compliance posture | No SOC 2 or HIPAA claims today. | Publishes SOC 2, HIPAA, and 99.99% uptime. | DocRaptor |
| Self-host | Hosted only. | Hosted; for on-prem they point at running Prince yourself (licenses from $2,500/year). | Split Neither service is self-hostable; a Prince license is the on-prem path. |
Same budget: at ~$75–79 a month, Leafwright includes 15,000 documents to DocRaptor's 1,250 — about 12× the volume.
Same volume: 15,000 documents a month is $79 on Leafwright Pro and $399 on DocRaptor Bronze — about a fifth of the price.
USD · verified September 2026
USD · verified September 2026
If your layout depends on Prince paged media — mixed page sizes, footnotes, crop marks, CMYK, tagged PDFs — switching to Chromium is a print-quality regression. DocRaptor is the right tool for that class of document.
For standard HTML/CSS documents, yes. Leafwright Pro is $79 for 15,000 PDFs a month (~0.5¢ each) where DocRaptor's comparable spend ($75 Premium) includes 1,250 (6¢ each). The trade: Leafwright renders with Chromium, not Prince, and doesn't publish SOC 2 or HIPAA attestations.
No. Leafwright does not include a Prince license and does not claim to match Prince XML print output. It runs hosted Chromium for HTML, URL, and Handlebars rendering, plus a template studio on the same engine.
No. DocRaptor's dashboard is for logs and account management; you send document_content or document_url on every request. Leafwright hosts Handlebars templates in a studio — AI-drafted, brand-kitted, checked before publish — that shares the render engine with the API.
Hobby is free and hard-capped: 100 PDFs and 8 AI template drafts a month, no credit card. Upgrade when you outgrow it.