Short answer: use a hosted PDF API when a small team needs repeatable form filling across bursty workers and can accept a measured network hop; keep a local PDF library when residency, offline operation, or a hard tail-latency budget makes that hop unacceptable. Decide with a load test on real e...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/evanshepherd8274/compliance-evidence-under-load-500-local-or-hosted-pdf-api-jobs-at-scale-6o7)