Last checked October 15, 2026

PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic merges, splits, rotates, extracts, and mixes PDF pages on your computer. The project is AGPL-3.0. It is not the paid PDFsam Visual or Enhanced editors, and it does not edit the text inside a page.

Open sourceAGPL-3.0IndividualsSmall teams

PDFsam Basic is the AGPL app. PDFsam Visual and PDFsam Enhanced are separate paid products.

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Free tier

PDFsam Basic is free, with no watermark and no file-size limit, according to the project.

Hosted

No hosted price recorded.

Self-host

A desktop app. Files stay on the machine. There is no server edition in this listing.

Drop-in scores

Replacing Adobe Acrobat100% of the checklist checked.

Sources checked

https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/
https://pdfsam.org/faq/