Ockem Proof pricing

Per document. Never per page. Never a meter.

One flat price per document, remediated and certified. From $59 for one document to $15 each at volume — and you pay only when a document is certified.

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Self-serve packs

Pick a pack. Bigger packs, lower rate.

Every document in a pack costs the same; you can buy again any time. Above 2,500 we price it with you. Card checkout is available to US organizations; elsewhere, ask for a quote and pay by invoice.

What a pack includes: one workspace and one seat, every fixer, re-verification of every fix, the certificate, webhooks, CSV export and scheduled re-checks. Several people in one workspace, assignments and approvals, or sign-in through your identity provider come with a team plan we set up with you — talk to us.

Most documents need one manual check from your team, two at the 90th percentile (production documents, Aug 2026). Want Ockem to make those calls? Ask about Assured.

2,500+ documents? We price it with you — at or below $15 per document, invoiced, added straight to your balance.Talk to us
Need a PO or invoice? Any pack, any size. We send a quote and a W‑9, you send a purchase order, and the documents land in your balance. Card checkout is available to US organizations; elsewhere, ask for a quote and pay by invoice.Request a quote
  • Charged only when a document is certified
  • Packs never expire
  • Untouched documents refundable for 30 days
  • Complex files show a fixed price before anything is spent

What counts as a document. One document is a PDF of up to 50 pages. Longer files count as one document per 50 pages: a 120-page PDF is three.*

*A few files need far more work than their page count suggests, such as scanned documents, maps and drawings, or very large files. Proof checks every file for free first and tells you before anything is spent. Those files show a fixed price you can accept or skip.

What “certified” means. Machine checks run veraPDF, the open-source PDF/UA validator, plus our own detectors, and the rule engine re-checks every fix automatically before it counts; criteria needing judgment are recorded as attestations by an accountable person. A document cannot certify while any check is failed or unresolved, and each one ships with a dated certificate recording what was checked by machine and what your organization attested, and stating that criteria it does not list are not claimed.

The compliance claim

Where your documents live. Every query is org-scoped and enforced by PostgreSQL row-level security. Inference runs on hardware we operate, with self-hosted open models — no customer document content goes to a third-party model. Your documents are never sold, never shared with other customers, and not used for model training unless your workspace turns that on.

Security & trust

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Not sure which pack? Type your count.

We pick the cheapest combination of packs that covers it — the number you see is the number you pay, and you can always buy again later.

A file over 50 pages counts as one document per 50 pages — a 120-page PDF is three. What counts as a document

Refine: pages, your team’s time

Only used for the agency comparison — your price doesn’t change

Our corpora average 1–2 questions per PDF; we budget 15 minutes to stay conservative

Over 2,500 documents? We price it with you, invoiced. More than 500 and no idea of the count? Get a free inventory.

Your price

60 documents: $1,840, $30.67 per document. 1 × Team, 1 × Starter. Plus your team’s time: ~15 h.

$1,840

$30.67 per document

plus your team’s time~15 hat 15 min per document —
  • 1 × Team (50 documents)$1,450
  • 1 × Starter (10 documents)$390
  • Covers machine remediation, re-verification of every fix, and the certificate.
  • That time is judgment calls — the few questions the machine can’t answer, typically 1–2 per document; many need none. Prefer not to? Assured does them for you, quoted per document.

vs. a manual agency at $3–10+ a page: $2,880–$9,600Agency range from published vendor quotes, Aug 2026.

Beyond self-serve

Need more than packs? Three more ways in.

Assured · opt-in per document

We finish the judgment calls for you

Ockem experts complete alt text, reading order, contrast and table decisions, and those attestations are made by our expert, not your team. Same certificate, invoiced per document.

Quoted per document

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Removes the judgment-call hours the estimator shows above. Already in Proof? Choose “Have Ockem do this” on a document it couldn’t finish.

Managed Compliance · waitlist

We watch your site as you keep publishing

Your packs price the backlog; Managed is meant to keep you compliant afterwards, catching new and changed PDFs and queuing them for you. Join the waitlist and we’ll share pricing before it launches.

Waitlist · pricing at launch

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Monitoring only — the fixes it finds draw documents from your pack at your pack rate.

Large libraries · 500+ PDFs

Don’t know your count? We’ll inventory your site for free.

Point us at a domain. We find every linked PDF, count pages, assess a sample of your documents for a live scorecard (12 by default, up to 100 for requests we qualify), and send a plan that prices the whole library at your pack rate, with complex files listed separately — packs, Assured, or Managed. Built for districts and agencies answering an ADA Title II deadline with a library they’ve never measured.

Get your free inventory

No commitment · usually within 3 business days

How billing works

You pay when the document is done. Not before.

  1. Upload and audit — free.

    Import your whole library. The first accessibility check on every file costs nothing and never touches your balance.

  2. Starting a fix sets one document aside.

    The machine does the fixes; the few questions it can’t answer (an image description, a reading-order call) come to you as short decisions. Re-runs are free until it’s certified.

  3. Certified → delivered → charged.

    The remediated PDF and certificate unlock the moment the document is certified. That is the only moment you’re charged.

  4. Can’t be certified? No charge.

    If a file needs re-authoring or you walk away, the reserved document goes back to your balance.

Compared

Compared with what you’d otherwise do

Hire an agency

Price

$3–10+ per page, quoted after an assessment

What you get

A remediated file; certification varies by vendor

Turnaround

Days to weeks

At scale

Cost grows with every page

Run an auto-tag tool

Price

Free, or a per-seat or per-file license

What you get

A tagged file and a checker report — you verify it

Turnaround

Minutes, unverified

At scale

Tool per file; no trail

Do it in-house

Price

Acrobat licenses plus staff hours

What you get

Whatever your team has time to finish; no certificate

Turnaround

Whenever someone is free

At scale

Every new PDF is a new project

Ockem Proof

Price

One flat price per document, published on this page

What you get

Every fix re-verified, certificate issued

Turnaround

Automated pass in hours; certification follows your team’s decisions

At scale

One platform, one account, one certificate trail

FAQ

Questions

What counts as a document?

One document is a PDF of up to 50 pages. Longer files count as one document per 50 pages: a 120-page PDF is three.* Two 5-page PDFs are two documents; one 40-page PDF is one. Every pack on this page counts documents the same way. *A few files need far more work than their page count suggests, such as scanned documents, maps and drawings, or very large files. Proof checks every file for free first and tells you before anything is spent. Those files show a fixed price you can accept or skip.

What is a complex file?

A file that needs far more work than its page count suggests: a scanned document, a map or drawing, very large images, or an unusually complex structure. Proof checks every file for free first. If a file is complex, it shows a fixed price — a set number of documents at your own pack rate — after that free check and before anything is spent. Accepting is one click, and you can accept several at once. If a file is outside what Proof can price automatically, it shows “Needs our team” and we follow up with a quote.

What happens if I skip a quote?

Nothing is spent. Skipping is free, the file stays in your library untouched, and the rest of your pack is unaffected. You can come back and accept the price later, or send the file to us instead.

Do packs expire? Can I get a refund?

Prepaid documents never expire. Documents you have never started work on are refundable within 30 days of purchase, for any reason. Once remediation starts on a document it stops being refundable — but it never expires, stays in your balance, and counts at full value toward an Assured or Managed invoice.

If I refund part of a pack, do you re-rate what I used?

Yes — the bundle rate belongs to buyers who use the bundle. Documents you have already certified are charged at the rate their own quantity earns, and we refund the rest of what you paid. Buy the 1,000-document Agency pack at $15 and certify 400: those 400 earn the 200-pack rate of $22, so they cost $8,800 and your refund is $6,200. Documents you started work on but never certified are not refunded — they stay in your balance permanently and never expire.

Can I pay by purchase order instead of card?

Yes, at any size — not only above 2,500 documents. Ask for a quote and we will send a quote document and a W-9; on a purchase order we invoice you and add the documents to your balance. Card checkout is simply the fastest path when your organization allows it.

Can my colleagues use the same balance?

A pack includes one workspace and one seat, every fixer, re-verification of every fix, the certificate, webhooks, CSV export and scheduled re-checks. Several people in one workspace, assignments and approvals, or sign-in through your identity provider come with a team plan we set up with you — talk to us.

Can I mix packs?

Yes. Every purchase adds to the same balance for your organization. Every document in a pack costs the same, so buying Starter twice costs Starter twice — the rate only drops by choosing a bigger pack.

Do you train AI on our documents?

Not unless you turn it on. Model training is off by default for every workspace, and a workspace administrator can switch it on or off at any time in Admin → Security. When it is on, we use the document’s structure, page renders, the changes each fix made, and your team’s review decisions — to improve our own accessibility models only. Your documents are never sold, never shared with other customers, and never given to a third party to train its models. The one exception is a free evaluation, where training use is the condition an administrator accepts before the workspace opens.

Should these be PDFs at all? Someone told us to publish HTML instead.

Often they are right, and where they are, we would rather you did that than paid us. If a document is still being written, a web page is the better answer: it reflows on any screen, and fixing the template fixes every future page. Where the PDF is the record (the form that was filed, the minutes as adopted, the report already cited by its address, the scan of a paper original), there is no web version to publish instead, and that is what these prices are for. Before any of it, check what the ADA Title II archive exception already covers for free. Our guide “Should this be a PDF at all?” works through all three. Read the guide to HTML or PDF

What do I still have to do myself?

Auto-Certified handles the machine work and re-verifies every fix. A few judgment calls — image descriptions, reading order on unusual layouts, color decisions — come to you as short questions. If you’d rather not, Assured has our experts finish and attest them. On a document Proof couldn’t finish, “Have Ockem do this” asks us for a price in documents, which you accept or decline in Proof.

Prices in USD. Card checkout is available to US organizations; elsewhere, ask for a quote and pay by invoice. Auto-Certified packs are live and self-serve; Assured is quoted per document; Managed Compliance is on a waitlist. Any pack can be paid by purchase order.

Start with one PDF.

Free, no account: a verified email, one document per email, up to 10 pages and 50 MB. Get the remediated file and its verification record, and see which checks still need a person.

Longer document? Request an assessment.