Emdi runs the same open-source engine you'd self-host — markitdown— hosted, scaled, and metered. One endpoint reaches it from the places a CLI can't: no-code automations, cloud agents, and serverless functions. No poppler, tesseract, ffmpeg, or libreoffice to install. Just a key and a call.
or try one in your browser →The honest pitch
We don't compete for your laptop. markitdown and markdownify-mcp are great — use them locally. Emdi wins only where running conversion locally isn't an option: the same engine, zero dependencies, reachable from anywhere. We never claim better Markdown than the engine we wrap — we claim better operations.
n8n, Zapier, Make. A hosted HTTP endpoint is the only way to convert from a cloud workflow — a CLI or local MCP can't wire in.
Agents running in the cloud can't shell out to a local binary. Give them one URL and a key instead of a dependency tree.
Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare Workers. No place to install poppler or tesseract — and no cold-start baggage to ship.
Feed well-structured Markdown to your chunks and embeddings instead of brittle document dumps that break on the next file.
What you get
A thin UI over a CLI reads as a toy. Emdi is built to be the conversion layer you'd put in production — minus the on-call rotation.
Install in one command, generated from the OpenAPI spec. Or call the endpoint raw — it's a single route.
Every response carries a request_id. Errors are machine-readable codes, not strings to grep for.
Prepaid credits, a monthly allowance, and hard caps. You know what a run costs before it runs.
Files are parsed in an isolated sandbox and deleted the instant conversion finishes. Nothing retained unless you ask.
POST /v1/convert. Generate a client in any language. No SDK lock-in, no vendor magic.
The Community Edition is source-available and self-hostable. The same API runs against your own base URL — no lock-in.
What your models get back
Every format collapses into one predictable shape. Headings become headings, tables stay tabular, lists stay ordered — so chunking and embedding behave the same whether the source was a PDF, a deck, or a spreadsheet.
# Quarterly Report Revenue grew **24%** YoY. ## Highlights | Region | Growth | - 4 new markets
Pricing
Every plan includes a monthly allowance that resets each cycle. Begin free and scale only as your usage does.
100 / month
Evaluate the platform.
2,000 / month
For individual builders.
10,000 / month
For collaborating teams.
60,000 / month
For production workloads.
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