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html2img.com is a close, lower-priced alternative for HTML/CSS rendering and URL screenshots. HTML/CSS to Image adds templates you design yourself, signed URLs, JPEG and WebP output, and optional overages.
50 free images each month · No credit card required
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| Capability | HTML/CSS to Image | html2img.com |
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| Render controls | ||
| Request rate limits | No per-minute limits | No rate limits |
| Hosted image URLs | CDN, free renders kept 7 days | |
| PDF rendering | Paid plans | A4 portrait only |
| Batch requests | 25–100 images on paid plans | |
| Overages | Optional: $10/1,000, or $50/10,000 on Scale | Requests stop when credits run out |
| MCP server | Hosted, OAuth | Hosted, API key, paid plans |
| Native SDKs | Several languages | PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby |
| Cookie-banner blocking | Hide banners with your own CSS | |
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html2img.com works a lot like HTML/CSS to Image. Both render HTML/CSS and screenshot URLs through an API, with Google Fonts, custom CSS, waiting for a selector, and hosted output on a CDN. Neither has per-minute rate limits, and both offer a hosted MCP server and official SDKs.
html2img.com offers 25 hosted template designs that take JSON values like a title or an accent color. You can't see a template's HTML, and custom templates are built by its team on request.
With HTML/CSS to Image, the templates are yours. Design them in the visual editor or save your own HTML/CSS, change them whenever you like, and generate variations through the API, signed URLs, or dynamic Open Graph images.
HTML/CSS to Image
Save reusable HTML/CSS templates and send variable values when creating images. Use the visual template editor when you want to design without writing the layout in code.
Template and media allowances vary by plan.
html2img.com
Choose from 25 hosted designs and send JSON values. Custom templates are built by its team on request.
A template's HTML isn't visible, and there's no visual editor.
html2img.com creates images through a POST request with your API key. Make that call on your server, then put the returned hosted image URL directly in an image tag or og:image.
HTML/CSS to Image's signed template URLs create the image on first access instead. Put the URL directly in an email, a webpage, or og:image, without a separate creation call or exposing your API key.
html2img.com outputs PNG and PDF. HTML/CSS to Image adds JPEG and WebP, and serves resized, cropped, or reformatted versions of an existing image without new credits. Downloading an existing html2img.com render is free, but a new size is a new render.
HTML/CSS to Image
Re-render, resize, crop, or change formats using the same image URL, without spending more credits.
Changing the source HTML or creation parameters creates a new image.
html2img.com
Output is PNG or PDF, with a DPI setting.
Each successful render uses one credit. Downloading an existing file is free.
html2img.com has no overages: requests return HTTP 402 when your credits run out, and unused credits don't roll over. Its 50 free credits are a one-time grant.
HTML/CSS to Image's 50 free images renew every month, and paid plans can keep going past the allowance with optional overages.
HTML/CSS to Image
The free plan includes 50 images every month, with no credit card required.
Free images are regular images you can use in your application. The template editor also previews variable values while you design.
html2img.com
50 free credits, granted once, with no card required.
Free renders are hosted for 7 days.
It's cheaper at both volumes we compared: $9 for 1,000 credits and $60 for 10,000. It can call a webhook when a render finishes, with one delivery attempt and no retries, and it has official plugins for WordPress, Statamic, and Craft, plus Laravel and Django packages.
HTML/CSS to Image
The normal create request returns an image ID and URL. Rendering happens when that URL is requested, so the create response does not confirm render completion.
HTML/CSS to Image has no built-in render-completion webhook. If your application needs a background job and callback, implement that orchestration yourself. Custom-storage-only output uses an authenticated PUT to the returned store URL.
html2img.com
Pass webhook_url to be notified when a render completes.
Delivery is attempted once, without retries, signatures, or custom headers.
Plans and pricing
html2img.com is cheaper in both examples: $9 versus $14 for 1,000 images, and $60 versus $69 for 10,000. It has no overages, though. Requests return HTTP 402 when your credits run out, and unused credits don't roll over.
$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.
$9/month for 1,000 credits.
Unused credits don't roll over.
html2img.com costs $5 less for 1,000 images.
$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.
$60/month for 10,000 credits.
No overages: requests return HTTP 402 when credits run out.
html2img.com costs $9 less at this volume.
USD, monthly billing, before tax. Distinct standard images. html2img.com charges one credit per successful render, PNG or PDF, and doesn't charge for failed renders.
Yes, slightly: $9/month for 1,000 credits versus $14, and $60 for 10,000 versus $69. html2img.com has no overages, and its 50 free credits are a one-time grant, while HTML/CSS to Image's 50 free images renew every month.
html2img.com offers 25 hosted designs that take JSON values, with custom templates built by its team on request. HTML/CSS to Image lets you design and edit your own templates in the visual editor or as HTML/CSS.
Its documented workflow creates an image through a server-side POST, then embeds the returned hosted URL. HTML/CSS to Image's signed URLs generate the image on first access, directly from an image tag, email, or og:image, without a separate API call.
No, it outputs PNG and PDF only. HTML/CSS to Image outputs PNG, JPEG, WebP, and PDF.
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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Render HTML/CSS, capture webpages, or generate images from reusable templates.
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