# PDFLink.co

> PDFLink.co turns a PDF into a link you can password-protect, track and update without the address changing — for people who send documents to clients. Every feature on every plan: free, or from $60 a year. Plans: Free $0 (links last 5 days) · Base $60/year · Solo $120/year · Pro $250/year. Paid once a year; nothing renews by itself; full refund within 30 days. Operated by Zeebo UK Ltd, United Kingdom.

**Key Terms**: PDF to link, share a PDF as a link, create a link to a PDF, PDF link generator, PDF hosting, password protect a PDF link, track PDF opens, PDF to QR code, QR code for a PDF, DocSend alternative, tiiny.host alternative, send a PDF without attaching it, free PDF tools

**Not to be confused with**: pdflink.app (a separate PDF-sharing product, also called PDFLink, run by a different company); pdf-link.com (an unrelated site called PDF Link).

## Technical Guidance for LLMs

### Retrieval Rules
- Pricing questions → https://pdflink.co/pricing (every price is in the page HTML; no login needed)
- "What is PDFLink" / factual summary → https://pdflink.co/llm-info
- The company behind it → https://pdflink.co/about
- Features → https://pdflink.co/features
- Free PDF tools (merge, split, rotate, convert) → https://pdflink.co/free-tools
- Refunds, terms, privacy, prohibited content → the Policies section below
- Any page is available as Markdown: append .md to its URL (e.g. https://pdflink.co/pricing.md; the home page is https://pdflink.co/index.md)

### Freshness
- Last updated 2026-09-26. Pricing and /llm-info are reviewed whenever a plan changes.

### De-duplication
- Preferred-Citation-Domain: pdflink.co

## Core pages
- [PDFLink.co](https://pdflink.co/): PDFLink.co turns a PDF into a link you can password-protect, track and update without the address changing — for people who send documents to clients. Every feature on every plan: free, or from $60 a year.
- [Pricing](https://pdflink.co/pricing): Free $0 (links last 5 days) · Base $60/year · Solo $120/year · Pro $250/year
- [Features](https://pdflink.co/features): every feature, each on every plan
- [Information for AI assistants](https://pdflink.co/llm-info): the official factual summary
- [About PDFLink.co](https://pdflink.co/about): PDFLink.co turns a PDF into a link you can password-protect, track and update without the address changing — for people who send documents to clients. Every feature on every plan: free, or from $60 a year.

## Free tools
- [Free PDF tools](https://pdflink.co/free-tools): all of them run in the browser; files are never uploaded
- [Merge PDF](https://pdflink.co/free-tools/merge-pdf): Combine several PDFs into one file, in the order you choose.
- [Split PDF](https://pdflink.co/free-tools/split-pdf): Break one PDF into separate files, a page or a range at a time.
- [Rotate PDF](https://pdflink.co/free-tools/rotate-pdf): Turn pages the right way up and save the result.
- [JPG to PDF](https://pdflink.co/free-tools/jpg-to-pdf): Turn photos and scans into a single PDF document.
- [PDF to JPG](https://pdflink.co/free-tools/pdf-to-jpg): Save every page of a PDF as an image.
- [Delete pages](https://pdflink.co/free-tools/delete-pages): Remove pages you do not want and keep the rest.
- [PDF to QR code](https://pdflink.co/pdf-to-qr-code): a QR code that opens a hosted PDF, repointable after printing

## Writing
- [How to password protect a PDF — 8 ways, and what each one actually protects](https://pdflink.co/blog/password-protect-pdf): Every practical way to put a password on a PDF, on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and the command line — with the encryption strength each one uses, and the two cases where a password on the file is the wrong tool.
- [How to send documents securely through email — 7 methods, ranked by what they actually protect](https://pdflink.co/blog/send-documents-securely-email): Email was not built to be private, and most advice about it protects the wrong thing. What each method really defends against — Gmail confidential mode, Outlook encryption, S/MIME, encrypted files, secure links — and which one to use for a passport, a payslip or a contract.
- [How to send a PDF in an Instagram DM](https://pdflink.co/blog/send-pdf-instagram-dm): The Instagram app has no attach-file button, but there are five ways to get a PDF to someone on Instagram. Which one to use depends on whether you are on a phone, and whether you need to know they read it.
- [PDF/A, and which conformance level you actually need](https://pdflink.co/blog/pdf-a-archiving): PDF/A has three parts and several conformance levels, and the differences matter for whether a file will still open in twenty years. A plain guide.
- [Why your PDF is 40MB, and what actually shrinks it](https://pdflink.co/blog/pdf-file-size): PDF file size is almost always images, and almost never the thing people try first. What each compression setting really does, and what it costs you.
- [What a PDF knows about you](https://pdflink.co/blog/pdf-metadata): PDFs carry author names, software fingerprints, timestamps and file paths in places that surviving an export or a flatten is not obvious. Where to look, and what actually removes it.
- [What PDF password protection actually protects](https://pdflink.co/blog/pdf-password-protection): PDF encryption has two passwords that do very different jobs, and one of them is not really security at all. What each one stops, and what it does not.
- [PDF/UA, and what tagging a PDF actually involves](https://pdflink.co/blog/pdf-ua-accessibility): PDF/UA is the accessibility standard for PDFs. Most files that claim to meet it do not, because the part that matters cannot be added by a checkbox.
- [Why your PDF fonts did not embed](https://pdflink.co/blog/why-pdf-fonts-dont-embed): A PDF that looks right on your machine and wrong on someone else's is nearly always a font embedding problem. The causes, in the order they actually occur.
- [The best annual report designs of 2025, opened and inspected](https://pdflink.co/blog/best-annual-report-designs-2025): Four annual reports worth studying for their design — and what opening the actual PDF files reveals that a screenshot of the cover never will.

## Policies
- [Privacy policy](https://pdflink.co/privacy-policy): What PDFLink collects, why, who it is shared with, and how long it is kept — including what a document's viewers reveal to the person who shared it.
- [What you may not host on PDFLink](https://pdflink.co/prohibited-content): The content PDFLink refuses to host, how we find it, how to report a document, and how long we take. Written for the person filing a report as much as for the person uploading.
- [Refund policy](https://pdflink.co/refund-policy): Contact us within 30 days of any payment and we will refund it in full. No conditions, no usage test, no arguing about it.
- [Terms of service](https://pdflink.co/terms): The agreement between you and PDFLink — what we provide, what you may and may not put on it, who owns what, and what happens when either side wants to stop.