Foxit PDF Editor Price and Cost: Foxit Pricing Plans and Perpetual License
Foxit publishes more prices than most PDF vendors, which is helpful, but they are spread across a subscription page, a perpetual license SKU, an AI credit add on and two eSign tiers. This page puts every published figure in one table, shows what the perpetual license actually saves, and marks the numbers that only third parties report so you know which ones to confirm before you buy.
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The short answer
Foxit PDF Editor costs $129.99 per user per year, advertised as $10.99 per user per month on annual billing. PDF Editor+ costs $159.99 per user per year and adds mobile apps, Smart Redact and Foxit eSign. A perpetual license for Foxit PDF Editor 14 is a one time $209.99 for Windows and macOS, which matters because Adobe has stopped selling perpetual Acrobat to new customers. Against Adobe Acrobat Pro for Teams at $287.88 per user per year, Foxit PDF Editor+ is $127.89 per seat per year cheaper. The perpetual license pays for itself against the annual subscription in roughly 16 to 19 months, depending which tier you compare it with.
Last updated August 2026. Figures taken from Foxit's own product and pricing pages in the US region, checked this month. Vendor pricing changes and regional rates differ, so confirm the current figure with Foxit before you purchase.
$129.99
Per user, per year
$159.99
PDF Editor+ per year
$209.99
Perpetual, one time
44%
Foxit's claim vs Adobe
Every published Foxit price in one table
Foxit sells the editor, the AI credits and the eSign envelopes as separate lines, so a quoted seat price is rarely the whole bill. These are the US list figures published in August 2026.
| Product | Price | Billing | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foxit PDF Reader | Free | None | View, annotate and fill forms. No content editing and no Excel export. |
| Foxit PDF Editor | $129.99 per user per year | Annual | Desktop editing, conversion including Excel export, OCR, 20 GB cloud storage. Advertised as $10.99 per user per month. |
| Foxit PDF Editor+ | $159.99 per user per year | Annual | Everything above plus mobile apps, AI Smart Redact, document management and Foxit eSign envelopes. |
| Foxit PDF Editor 14 perpetual | $209.99 one time | One time | Windows and macOS. Covers that major version and its patches, not future major versions. |
| AI credit upgrade | $49.99 per year | Annual add on | Raises the included 20 AI credits a month to 2,000 a month. |
| Foxit eSign Essentials | $120 per year | Annual | Individual plan, reported at 250 envelopes a year. |
| Foxit eSign Business | $300 per year | Annual | Unlimited envelopes, reported with a five user minimum. |
The eSign envelope counts and the five user minimum come from third party pricing directories rather than a figure we could read on Foxit's own page, so treat those two rows as indicative and confirm them with Foxit sales.
Does Foxit have a perpetual license, and is it worth it?
Yes, and it is the main reason finance and legal teams still shortlist Foxit. Foxit PDF Editor 14 sells as a one time $209.99 license for Windows and macOS. Adobe withdrew perpetual Acrobat from new customers, so if your procurement process prefers a capital purchase over a recurring line item, the list of serious options is short.
The arithmetic is straightforward. At $129.99 a year for the standard subscription, $209.99 breaks even a little past the 19 month mark. Compared with PDF Editor+ at $159.99 a year, it breaks even at about 16 months. Anyone keeping a PDF editor for three years or more is ahead on the perpetual license, and most people keep one much longer than that.
Two things pull the other way. The perpetual license buys one major version, so a team that wants the current release every couple of years ends up repurchasing. And several pricing directories report that Foxit charges an annual maintenance and support fee on perpetual licenses to keep updates and support flowing. We could not find that fee published on Foxit's own page, so ask for it in writing before you budget a perpetual rollout across a department. A maintenance fee changes the break even calculation completely.
The perpetual license also skips the cloud side: no bundled storage, no mobile apps, no eSign envelopes. If nobody on your team opens PDFs on a phone, that is a fair trade. If your workflow already runs through shared cloud folders, the subscription is doing more than the price difference suggests.
Is Foxit cheaper than Adobe Acrobat?
On list price it is, and the gap is wide enough to matter at ten seats. The comparison below uses Foxit's own published comparison against Adobe Acrobat Pro for Teams, which is the figure Foxit puts on its product page. Foxit is the vendor here, so read the row labels rather than the framing.
| Line item | Foxit PDF Editor+ | Adobe Acrobat Pro for Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Annual price per user | $159.99 | $287.88 |
| Perpetual license | $209.99, Windows and macOS | Discontinued for new customers |
| Free AI credits | 20 a month included | Limited requests, cap not published |
| AI assistant paid tier | $49.99 a year for 2,000 credits a month | $59.88 a year, usage capped |
| AI redaction | Smart Redact included | Not offered |
| Trial | Free trial | 7 days, credit card required |
| PDF to Excel export | Included | Included |
One caveat worth keeping straight, because it trips up most comparison articles. The $287.88 figure is Adobe Acrobat Pro for Teams, billed at $23.99 per seat per month on an annual commitment. An individual Acrobat Pro subscription prepaid for the year is $239.88, and month to month it is $29.99. Comparing Foxit's team price against Adobe's individual price, or the other way round, is how you end up with a saving that does not survive procurement. Our breakdown of what Adobe Acrobat Pro costs walks through each of those Adobe SKUs.
How Foxit's price compares with the rest of the market
Desktop PDF suites cluster tightly. Foxit PDF Editor+ at $159.99 a year sits below Adobe on both the team and individual comparison, and below Nitro PDF at $180 per user per year, which is billed annually with no monthly option at all. Nitro's Classic license is $270 paid once but covers three years rather than being perpetual, and it is Windows only. Foxit is the only one of the three still selling a genuine perpetual license across both Windows and macOS.
The bigger question is whether a desktop suite is the right shape of tool for what you are doing. All three of these products edit PDFs, and PDF to Excel export is one feature among dozens. If the actual job is editing documents, redacting, combining and signing, a suite licence is good value and Foxit is the cheapest credible one.
If the job is really extraction, that is, someone opens a statement or a report every week and retypes the table into a spreadsheet, then you are paying suite pricing for a fraction of a product, and the per document workflow stays manual no matter which suite you buy. Our comparison of PDF to Excel pricing models lays out the six ways this market charges, including the per page cloud APIs that most buyer guides leave out entirely.
Foxit PDF Editor pricing: common questions
How much does Foxit PDF Editor cost?
Foxit PDF Editor starts at $129.99 per user per year, which Foxit also advertises as $10.99 per user per month on annual billing. PDF Editor+ is $159.99 per user per year. A perpetual license for Foxit PDF Editor 14 is a one time $209.99. Those are US list prices published in August 2026.
Is Foxit PDF Editor a one time purchase?
It can be. Foxit still sells a perpetual license for Foxit PDF Editor 14 at $209.99, for Windows and macOS, which is unusual now that Adobe has withdrawn perpetual Acrobat from new customers. The one time fee covers that major version and its patches, not free upgrades to future major versions.
Is Foxit PDF Editor free?
No. Foxit PDF Reader is free and lets you view, annotate and fill forms, but it does not edit page content or export tables to Excel. Editing and export are paid features in Foxit PDF Editor. Foxit does offer a free trial of the paid product before you commit to a license.
What is the difference between Foxit PDF Editor and PDF Editor+?
$30 a year, and the plus tier adds the cloud and AI side: mobile apps, AI powered Smart Redact, the Foxit document management system and bundled eSign envelopes. Core editing, conversion and OCR are in both. If your team works only on desktop, the standard tier at $129.99 covers the same document work.
Does Foxit PDF Editor convert PDF to Excel?
Yes. Export to Excel is included in the paid tiers, and the product runs OCR on scanned pages. It is a desktop application, so the export is a per document, per person task. That is fine for a few files a week and awkward once you are working through a folder of a few hundred statements each month.
Does Foxit charge a maintenance fee on perpetual licenses?
Several pricing directories report an annual maintenance and support fee on perpetual licenses, required to keep receiving updates and support. We could not find that fee published on Foxit's own pages, so we are not going to quote a number for it. Ask Foxit sales to put it in writing before you budget a perpetual purchase.
Is Foxit worth it compared with Adobe Acrobat?
If you need a full PDF suite and the price matters, Foxit is the stronger buy: it is $127.89 per seat per year cheaper than Acrobat Pro for Teams and it still sells a perpetual license. Adobe wins where you need deep prepress work, the widest third party integration support, or a tool your clients already standardize on. Our Foxit and Adobe Acrobat comparison for table export goes through the export quality side.
Can I buy Foxit PDF Editor for a team without talking to sales?
For small numbers, yes, the per user annual plans are self serve. Foxit publishes volume licensing for ten or more users, which routes to sales. If you are comparing quotes at that size, get the eSign envelope allowance and any perpetual maintenance fee written into the quote, because those are the two lines that are not on the public page.
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Before you buy a seat for table extraction
Work out how many people actually need to edit PDFs versus how many just need the numbers out of them. In most finance and operations teams those are different groups, and the second group is larger. Buying everyone a $159.99 suite seat to solve the second problem is the most common way this budget gets spent twice.
If you want to see how the rest of the field prices the same job, including the browser tools and the per page cloud APIs, start with our comparison of PDF to Excel converters, or read the same analysis applied to Foxit alternatives for table extraction.