Nutrient (formerly PSPDFKit)

Type: reference
Status: draft
Owner: COE Team
Last reviewed: 2026-11-07
Products: Essential Studio, BoldDocServer

How to sell positively against Nutrient document SDKs and its SharePoint SDK. Used by the Essential Studio and BoldDocServer GTM plans and competitive selling.

Summary

Nutrient (formerly PSPDFKit) sells Web Viewer SDK, Document Engine (self-hosted or managed), DWS APIs and mobile SDKs. Licensing is component-based and quote-based on annual subscriptions, with usage-based pricing for its APIs and OEM options for SaaS. Win on visible per-developer pricing and UI-plus-documents under one vendor; for SharePoint Server, win on a WOPI drop-in for Office Online Server.

Details

Essential Studio (document SDKs)

Where they’re strong

Polished viewer UX across web and mobile, with annotation, forms, signatures and redaction.
Flexible deployment: client-side, self-hosted, managed, air-gapped and API.
Buy-only-what-you-need component licensing and multi-year terms.

Where we fit better

Public per-developer pricing and calculator versus a custom quote.
Document SDKs plus 1,600+ UI components and editors in one license, one support channel, one security review.

Positive talk track “Nutrient has a great viewer experience. If you also need the grid, charts and forms around that viewer, and want pricing you can model before talking to sales, we cover it all from one vendor.”

Landmines to avoid

Don’t use the old PSPDFKit name as if it were a different company.
No claims about their prices or usage rates.

BoldDocServer (SharePoint document viewing and editing)

Where they’re strong

SharePoint SDK renders PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint client-side and saves PDFs back to SharePoint; listed for SharePoint Online and on-premises.
Rich PDF features (annotation, signatures, redaction).

Where we fit better

BoldDocServer restores the Office Online Server editing role through WOPI, including Word and Excel editing with comments, track changes and formulas, saved back with SharePoint versioning.
Ready-to-run server with per-user pricing; no integration project.

Positive talk track “Nutrient’s SharePoint SDK is strong for PDF workflows. If what users lost is opening and editing Word and Excel in the browser from SharePoint Server, BoldDocServer gives that back with a WOPI binding.”