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Browserless hosts browsers for your Puppeteer and Playwright scripts. HTML/CSS to Image skips the scripts: send HTML, a URL, or template values and get back a hosted image.
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| Capability | HTML/CSS to Image | Browserless |
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| Request rate limits | No per-minute limits | Concurrent browsers by plan |
| Hosted image URLs | Use your own storage and delivery | |
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Both have APIs for HTML and webpage screenshots, with PDF output and ways to wait for your content before capturing. Browserless also runs remote browsers for your own Puppeteer and Playwright scripts.
Browser automation. Connect an existing Puppeteer or Playwright script, reuse sessions, or use its APIs for capture and content extraction. Its cloud also offers proxy and CAPTCHA options for sites that need them.
HTML/CSS to Image is built around the image instead: the design, the variations, and where the finished image lives.
With Browserless Cloud, you run your automation code while Browserless runs the browsers. With a self-hosted deployment, you also own capacity, upgrades, monitoring, and network access, and the open-source container doesn't include every Cloud or Enterprise feature. Check the deployment and license you need rather than treating them as interchangeable.
In either Browserless deployment, the workflow around the screenshot is yours to build: storage, image URLs, caching, and templates. HTML/CSS to Image includes it. Save templates in the visual editor, generate variations from signed URLs, serve images from a CDN, and resize or reformat an existing image without new credits.
HTML/CSS to Image
Hosting and CDN delivery are included. Application-level caching keeps an existing image URL reusable, even after a CDN cache miss, without consuming another image credit.
Paid plans keep images while your account is active. Custom-storage-only images use your own delivery.
Browserless
The screenshot API returns image output. Your application supplies persistent image delivery and reuse rules.
Browserless Cloud plans set a maximum number of concurrent browsers, and self-hosted deployments are limited by the machines you provide. HTML/CSS to Image has no concurrency caps or per-minute limits for image requests.
HTML/CSS to Image
Send image creation and rendering requests in parallel, with no concurrency caps or per-second or per-minute rate limits.
Image credits and plan limits still apply.
Browserless
Cloud plans set maximum concurrent browsers. Self-hosted deployments configure session and queue limits against their available capacity.
Plans and pricing
Browserless Cloud bills in units: a browser connection uses one unit for up to 30 seconds, with more units for longer sessions. Reconnecting starts a new connection, and proxies and CAPTCHA solving can add usage. A unit isn't necessarily an image, since one connection can perform several actions.
HTML/CSS to Image bills per created image, with reuse and image variants included. For self-hosted Browserless, budget for your machines and the applicable license instead of Cloud units.
$14/month for 1,000 images on Basic.
Includes templates, the visual editor, and hosted image delivery. A free plan includes 50 images per month.
Cloud has a free plan with 1,000 units per month and two concurrent browsers.
Browser-time units and image credits measure different things.
$69/month for 10,000 images on Basic.
Optional overages cost $10 per 1,000 images. Includes templates, hosted image delivery, storage destinations, and bring-your-own proxies at this volume.
Cloud charges for units. Self-hosting uses your infrastructure and applicable license.
Include your own image storage and delivery when comparing costs.
It depends on how long your captures take. Browserless Cloud bills in units, one per browser connection of up to 30 seconds, and its free plan includes 1,000 units a month. HTML/CSS to Image bills per image, from $14/month for 1,000, with hosting and resized variants included.
Yes. Point your Puppeteer or Playwright scripts at its remote browsers. HTML/CSS to Image takes HTML, URLs, or template values directly, without browser scripts to maintain.
No. The screenshot API returns the image, and persistent storage and URLs are up to you. HTML/CSS to Image returns a hosted image URL.
Yes, through its open-source and Enterprise deployments, which have different features and licensing. HTML/CSS to Image is a hosted API.
See the output for yourself
Paste some HTML/CSS, screenshot a URL, or fill in a template. The demo below calls the real API, and you don't need an account.
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