# Edit My PDF vs pdfFiller: where files go, what is free, fonts

> pdfFiller compared with Edit My PDF: where files are processed, free limits, pricing, and whether editing text keeps the original font. Facts checked 2 November 2026.

Canonical: https://editmypdf.dev/compare/pdffiller/

A cloud document platform for filling, editing and signing PDFs, with forms, templates and workflow features.

Facts checked 2 November 2026

## In short

pdfFiller is a document workflow product: forms, signatures, templates and teams. If that is the job, it is a reasonable subscription. For editing a page's text it uploads your file, keeps it in an account and does not promise to match the font. Edit My PDF keeps the file on your machine and the font exactly.

pdfFiller and Edit My PDF on three facts
|  | pdfFiller | Edit My PDF |
| --- | --- | --- |
| runs in your browser | No | Yes |
| edits existing text | Yes | Yes |
| keeps the page's font | Partly | Yes |

| At a glance | pdfFiller | Edit My PDF |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Where your file is processed | Uploaded to their servers (Every document is uploaded to pdfFiller's cloud on AWS in the United States.) | In your browser (Everything runs in your tab with pdf.js and pdf-lib. Nothing is uploaded.) |
| File retention | Documents stay in your account while you subscribe and for a month after it ends; there is no automatic short-term deletion. | Nothing is sent, so nothing is retained. Documents stay in your browser's IndexedDB until you remove them. |
| Account | For some tasks (You can start editing without an account; saving, downloading or sharing needs one.) | Not required |
| Free tier | No permanent free plan. A 30-day trial that usually asks for a card and converts to a paid plan. (File size cap: 100 MB and 1,500 pages. Limit: Trial only. Watermark: no.) | Everything is free. No task counter, no watermark, no file size cap beyond browser memory. |
| Paid plans | $8/month **Basic**: $8 per user per month billed annually, or $20 month to month (US prices from the vendor's blog; the pricing page shows regional currency) · **Plus**: $12 per user per month billed annually, or $30 month to month · **Premium**: $15 per user per month billed annually, or $40 month to month (Adds signNow, a legal forms library and workflows.) ·  | None. Everything is free. |
| Edits the text already on the page | Yes (On the free tier: Partly) | Yes |
| Keeps the page's original font | Partly (Claims to detect the matching font automatically, but says "font matching is not guaranteed" and that a font not embedded in the PDF is substituted with a similar one.) | Yes (Opens the clicked text in the PDF's embedded font, at its size, colour, letter and word spacing; exports it as real text in a subset of that font.) |
| Annotate and draw | Yes | Yes |
| Sign | Yes | Yes |
| Fill forms | Yes | No |
| OCR | Yes | No |
| Convert to and from other formats | Yes | No |
| Merge and split | Yes | No |
| Compress | Yes | No |
| Desktop apps | Yes | No |
| Mobile apps | Yes | No |
| API | Yes | No |

### Where pdfFiller is better

-   Fillable forms, data collection and a library of tens of thousands of templates and legal forms.
-   E-signature workflows with audit trails, through signNow on Premium.
-   OCR, conversion, cloud storage, team workspaces and an API.
-   Compliance paperwork: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA agreements, GDPR.
-   Native mobile apps and a macOS app.

### Where Edit My PDF is better

-   Free, with no trial, no card and nothing that converts into a subscription.
-   No upload, and no copy of your document kept in a cloud account.
-   The embedded font is kept and re-embedded; pdfFiller's own pages say font matching is not guaranteed.
-   No 100 MB cap.

The privacy notice was updated in October 2026 and the sub-processor list in September 2026 to add OpenAI, Anthropic and Google for AI features.

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Read on 2 November 2026 from airSlate's own pages, with independent reviews used only to fill gaps. Prices are as the vendor showed them, in the currency and region seen. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the page says "Not stated".

1.  [pdfFiller plans](https://www.pdffiller.com/en/services.htm)
2.  [pdfFiller Edit PDF](https://edit-pdf.pdffiller.com/)
3.  [pdfFiller: edit and preserve font style](https://www.pdffiller.com/en/functionality/edit-and-preserve-font-style-pdf.htm)
4.  [pdfFiller blog: free version](https://blog.pdffiller.com/pdffiller-free-version/)
5.  [pdfFiller blog: pricing (US prices)](https://blog.pdffiller.com/pdffiller-pricing/)
6.  [pdfFiller FAQ: how long documents are kept](https://www.pdffiller.com/en/faq/my-account-and-subscription/how-long-will-pdffiller-keep-my-documents.htm)
7.  [airSlate sub-processors](https://legal.pdffiller.com/subprocessors)

pdfFiller is a product of airSlate, Inc., Boston. The name is used only to identify the product being compared.

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