gPdf
Benchmarks · sampled 2026-04-29

Measured, not marketed.

1-page A4 invoice, 12 line items, QR + logo. Median of 1000 PDF generations. Lower is better.

gPdf is not an HTML-to-PDF engine. These numbers compare structured document generation for invoices, labels, and API-generated PDFs — not browser-rendered web pages.

Methodology: 1-page A4 invoice · 12 line items · 1 QR + 1 logo · 1K invocations · median (p50) and p99 reported. Sampled 2026-04-29 from a workstation in EU-WEST. PDFShift, DocRaptor, Puppeteer and LaTeX numbers are reproduced from each vendor's published quickstart sample with the same input — re-run on your own workload before deciding. Read the head-to-head comparisons

0 105ms 210ms 315ms 420ms
01 gPdf ours
3.8ms
02 PDFShift
95ms
03 DocRaptor (Prince)
180ms
04 Puppeteer (headless)
312ms
05 LaTeX (local)
420ms
Comparisons

gPdf Comparisons

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