pdfme
Generates PDFs from templates you design in its editor; runs in the browser and Node.js.
Files, images and media npm MIT PDF
How pdfme is used
AgentGid editors added pdfme to the catalog as a well-known library for PDF. In our scan it appears in 3 public GitHub projects, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents, so there is too little project data to rank it against the tools people use most. The most used alternative in our scan is jsPDF (131 projects).
pdfme popularity over time
Gid Score 33: downloads 42, use in agent projects 0, GitHub stars 38, downloads trend 58 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
How pdfme is funded
Open Collective: pdfme
| Received, last 12 months | $17 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $20 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $102 |
| Raised since the start | $102 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Top company backers all time
| PhotoQuest | $100 since Jan 2025 |
|---|
Jan 2025Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jan 2025. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @pdfme | 3 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund pdfme
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @pdfme/generator |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (2), TypeScript / JavaScript (1) |
Alternatives to pdfme
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside pdfme are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jsPDF npm Generate PDF documents directly from JavaScript in browsers and Node.js. |
74 | 131 (2.7%) | 9.4M | 31.3K | MIT |
| pdf-lib npm Create and modify PDF documents with JavaScript in Node.js and browsers. |
66 | 61 (1.3%) | 11.5M | 8,663 | MIT |
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