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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "wondershare-pdfelement",
 "name": "Wondershare PDFelement",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "pdf.wondershare.com",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Documents, PDF & e-signing",
 "summary": "Desktop PDF editor for Windows and Mac with OCR, forms, conversion, redaction and an AI assistant, sold as a yearly, two-year or one-time licence.",
 "best_for": "individuals and small offices on Windows or Mac who want a full PDF editor with OCR, forms and conversion, and prefer a one-time licence over an Acrobat subscription",
 "skip_if": "you need e-signatures or AI document work at volume, your team needs central licence management at scale, or you only edit a PDF now and then and a free online tool will do",
 "honest_knock": "The prices on the store are a launch discount next to higher list prices, and the yearly plan renews automatically. Every paid plan shows only 50 PDF AI uses and 3 eSign requests in the comparison table. A perpetual licence covers PDFelement 13, not later major versions, and the prices we read are for one platform. We have not used PDFelement ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$79.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Yearly Plan (Windows, single platform) · per year, V13 launch discount, struck-through price US$129",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-09 in a browser render of pdf.wondershare.com/store/windows-individuals.html, USD, Windows, individuals, single-platform tab) All three prices are shown as a PDFelement 13 launch discount next to a struck-through list price. The Yearly Plan is US$79.99 a year (list US$129) and renews automatically. The 2-Year Plan is US$109.99 (list US$149) and renews manually. The Perpetual Plan is US$129.99 once (list US$159) for perpetual access to PDFelement 13. Each paid plan includes 20 GB of PDFelement Cloud storage, no watermark and tech support; the yearly and 2-year plans include updates for their term. The comparison table gives every paid plan 50 'trial uses' of the PDF AI and 3 eSign requests; the FAQ has a question about extra charges for AI that we could not read in the render. The free trial without an account allows only create, view, protect and organise and adds a watermark; a registered 14-day trial without a card unlocks nearly all features but still watermarks saved files. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee. On the same store, the cross-platform individual licences (desktop plus iOS, Android and web) were US$89.99 a year (list US$305), US$119.99 for two years (list US$510) and US$139.99 once (list US$695), with 100 GB of cloud storage instead of 20 GB; on the perpetual licence, mobile and web access is for a limited time. Mac single-platform, team and education prices were not read.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Foxit",
  "why": "Foxit is in our dossiers too and also sells a desktop PDF editor priced under Acrobat with a perpetual option; compare the per-user yearly price and the eSign allowance, because PDFelement caps eSign requests at 3 on every plan in its table"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/wondershare-pdfelement.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/wondershare-pdfelement-review.html",
  "marketplace": null,
  "vendor_site": "https://pdf.wondershare.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-101832528-10890849-1775084122000",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "wondershare-pdfelement:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "wondershare-pdfelement:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "wondershare-pdfelement:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "wondershare-pdfelement:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}