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Gotenberg is a developer-friendly API for PDF generation — HTML → PDF, Markdown → PDF, Office docs → PDF, image conversion, PDF merging. Stateless service powered by headless Chromium + LibreOffice. Drop into any backend that needs server-side PDF rendering.

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📄 Documents Min 1024 MB RAM Port 3030 (http) Tier pro

// What it is

A closer look.

Gotenberg is a developer-friendly API for PDF generation — HTML → PDF, Markdown → PDF, Office docs → PDF, image conversion, PDF merging. Stateless service powered by headless Chromium + LibreOffice. Drop into any backend that needs server-side PDF rendering.

The "PDF microservice" — designed to be called by other apps, not used directly.

// Use cases

What it's for.

Concrete scenarios where teams pick Gotenberg over the SaaS alternative.

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Invoice / report PDF generation

HTML/CSS templates → branded PDFs

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Office doc conversion

DOCX/XLSX/PPTX → PDF for downloads

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Markdown rendering

docs → PDF for distribution

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URL screenshots

render web pages as PDF

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Bulk document conversion

batch HTML → PDF via API

// Who it's for

Built for these teams.

If your team profile matches one of these, Gotenberg is a strong fit out of the box.

Profile A

Backend developers

building apps that generate PDFs

Profile B

SaaS engineering teams

needing branded PDF exports

Profile C

Document workflow automation

orgs handling many formats

Profile D

Internal tools

auto-generating reports

Profile E

Multi-tenant apps

rendering customer-branded PDFs

// Differentiators

Why teams pick Gotenberg.

When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Gotenberg consistently lands above the alternatives.

✓MIT license — fully open
✓Stateless API — easy to scale horizontally
✓Multi-format input — HTML, Markdown, Office, images, URLs
✓High fidelity — Chromium-based rendering matches browser exactly
✓Active development — frequent releases
✓Docker-native — zero install friction

// Integrations

Connects to.

The stack you'll plug Gotenberg into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.

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Chromium

HTML/CSS rendering, URL screenshots

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LibreOffice headless

Office document conversion

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PDF engines

pdfcpu / qpdf for merge/manipulate

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API clients

Python, JS, Go, PHP community libraries

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Frameworks

Laravel, Symfony, Rails, Django integrations

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CI/CD

generate PDFs in pipeline for testing

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Webhook callbacks

async result delivery (Pro feature)

// Adoption & deployment

Notable users & community

8k+ GitHub stars
Used by SaaS teams worldwide for backend PDF generation
Active GitHub Discussions
Backed by Julien Neuhart (single maintainer with commercial offering)
Standard tool in microservices architectures needing PDF

What we ship

Docker image: gotenberg/gotenberg:8
Port 3030 exposed (mapped from container 3000)
Stateless — no volume needed
Auth at reverse proxy (no built-in auth)
HTTPS via Let's Encrypt reverse proxy
Health endpoint /health for monitoring
No backup needed (stateless service)

// Tips & operations

Run it properly.

Operational guidance from running this in production — what to lock down, what surprises people.

// PERFORMANCE

No auth by default

front with nginx + auth_request for production

// SECURITY

Resource limits per request

large HTML can spike memory

// OPERATIONS

Async via webhook

for slow conversions, use webhook callback

// RELIABILITY

Custom fonts

bind-mount font directory for branded PDF rendering

// DEPLOYMENT

PDF compression

Gotenberg supports output compression

// SCALING

Chrome flags

pass via API for special rendering (e.g., dark mode)

1024

// min ram (MB)

// min disk (GB)

3030

// access port

http

// protocol

pro

// bluixapps tier

// Alternatives in Documents

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Project resources

Official sitegotenberg.dev ↗