Watermark
Free-plan PDFs include a small "Made with PDFShot" footer. Paid plans render clean.
Free plan watermark
Every PDF generated on the Free plan renders with a small footer in the PDF itself:
Made with PDFShot · pdfshot.deepsyte.com
The watermark is rendered by Playwright at PDF generation time via the
footerTemplate option — it's not added by any post-processing step and you
can't remove it client-side. The footer takes ~16mm of the bottom margin.
Paid plans render clean
The Solo plan ($9/month) and higher render PDFs without any PDFShot branding. The user's plan is looked up once per job at conversion time:
| Plan | Watermark |
|---|---|
| Free | Footer on every PDF |
| Solo | None |
| Pro | None (when shipped) |
If you upgrade mid-month, any new captures from that point render clean. Existing captures keep their original render — PDFShot doesn't re-render old PDFs when you change plans.
Why a watermark, not a quota wall
Watermarking gives the free plan real production value: every PDF works, every link is permanent, the API and dashboard are fully unlocked. The watermark exists so the paid tier has a clear UX upgrade signal beyond just "more PDFs per month."
If you're building a customer-facing product on the free tier and want clean PDFs, see Pricing.