Meet Hyper Compress

The best open source PDF compression engine. It never returns a file larger than the original, offers a true lossless mode, and posted the lowest corruption rate of every engine we benchmarked.

Ships as a CLI, Node SDK, C library, self-hosted service and WebAssembly build.

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64.8%median reduction, strongest preset
22.4%median reduction, lossless
0.39%corruption rate, lowest tested
2,104real-world PDFs benchmarked

Open source, self-hosting and internal use stay free. Hyper Compress is licensed under the AGPL-3.0. If your project is AGPL-compatible, or you run Hyper Compress as-is for yourself, you never need a commercial license. Commercial licenses are only for shipping Hyper Compress inside closed-source software.

Commercial Licenses

Per product, billed annually. Every tier includes all updates and new releases while active.

Solo

One developer, under $100k annual revenue

$99/ year
  • One closed-source product
  • All updates while active
  • Email support
Get Solo

Indie

Companies under $1M annual revenue

$199/ year
  • One closed-source product
  • Unlimited developers
  • All updates while active
  • Email support
Get Indie

Business

Companies at $1M annual revenue or more

$499/ year
  • One closed-source product
  • Unlimited developers
  • All updates while active
  • Priority email support
Get Business

OEM

Redistribution, reselling as an SDK, or offering Hyper Compress as a service

from$1,999/ year
  • Redistribution rights
  • Terms shaped to your product
  • Priority support
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Commercial license details

Delivery & licensing model

  • No license key is required or provided. Hyper Compress intentionally does not use license keys, to streamline deployment and reduce operational friction.
  • Upon purchase you receive a ZIP archive containing the complete Hyper Compress source code.
  • Because Hyper Compress is open source, every release and every update can always be downloaded from our