Compare screenshot APIs
ScreenshotAPI.net covers a lot of website capture at low prices: HTML input, PDFs, scrolling video, scraping, and scheduled jobs. HTML/CSS to Image focuses on designing, reusing, and safely embedding your images.
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| Capability | HTML/CSS to Image | ScreenshotAPI.net |
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| Render controls | ||
| Request rate limits | No per-minute limits | 20–80 requests/min by plan |
| Hosted image URLs | Kept up to 6 months on paid plans | |
| PDF rendering | Paid plans | |
| Batch requests | 25–100 images on paid plans | Paid plans, JSON or CSV upload |
| Overages | Optional: $10/1,000, or $50/10,000 on Scale | Plan-dependent |
| Native SDKs | Several languages | Code examples in 6 languages |
| No-code integrations | Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream | viaSocket |
| Organizations and teams | No seat fees | Unlimited team members on paid plans |
| Cookie-banner blocking | Plus ad, tracker, and chat blocking | |
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ScreenshotAPI.net is one of the broader capture APIs we compare against. Both render HTML/CSS and capture webpages with controls for sizing, selectors, and waiting for content. Both generate PDFs, block cookie banners, run batch jobs on paid plans, and let teammates share an account.
HTML/CSS to Image
Render HTML/CSS or URLs with viewport, scale, selector, timing, font, and other controls. Convenience options include google_fonts and a ScreenshotReady() signal for your page's JavaScript.
The same options apply whether you send HTML/CSS or a URL.
ScreenshotAPI.net
Capture a URL or send custom HTML, with viewport, full-page, selector, wait, CSS and JavaScript injection, dark mode, and geolocation options.
Send large HTML with a POST request.
ScreenshotAPI.net accepts custom HTML, so you can render your own designs. You still build and fill in that HTML in your application for every variation.
HTML/CSS to Image adds a design layer on top. Design in the visual editor or save your HTML/CSS as a template, then send only the values that change. Dynamic Open Graph images go further: configure one URL pattern, and each page picks its template values through meta tags, with no API calls from your publishing workflow.
A ScreenshotAPI.net GET request works in an image tag, but your API token sits in the query string. Request signing isn't documented, and keys can't be restricted to a domain.
HTML/CSS to Image's signed URLs are built for this. Put an image or template URL in an email, a webpage, or og:image, and the signature protects the request without exposing your API key.
HTML/CSS to Image has no per-minute or concurrency limits on creating and rendering images. Your requests can run in parallel without waiting for a plan-based allowance to reset.
ScreenshotAPI.net's Startup plan allows 40 requests per minute. Even in the best case, assuming your site loads in one second, 1,000 images need 25 minutes' worth of request allowance. Essential allows 20 requests per minute and Business allows 80.
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.
ScreenshotAPI.net
Essential allows 20 requests per minute, Startup 40, and Business 80.
Requests over the limit return HTTP 429.
ScreenshotAPI.net doesn't count cached screenshots toward your quota, and the cache lasts 30 days by default. Its docs and pricing FAQ disagree on whether caching is on by default, so check enable_caching and fresh for your requests.
With HTML/CSS to Image, an existing image URL remains reusable even when its rendered output isn't cached. Resized or reformatted versions don't use new credits. Matching HTML/CSS creation requests are also deduplicated, with URL screenshot deduplication available as an option.
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.
ScreenshotAPI.net
Cached screenshots don't count toward your quota, and the cache lasts 30 days by default.
Its documentation and pricing FAQ differ on whether caching is on by default, so check enable_caching and fresh for your requests. No CDN is documented.
It's built to capture a lot of the web: scrolling video and GIFs on Startup and above, HTML, text, and Markdown extraction, recurring captures from the dashboard (including from a sitemap), and bulk jobs from a CSV upload. For monitoring or archiving websites, those are useful tools that HTML/CSS to Image doesn't have.
HTML/CSS to Image
HTML/CSS to Image does not offer scrolling video or animated screenshot output.
Full-page still screenshots are supported. Capturing a tall page as one image is different from recording a video as it scrolls.
ScreenshotAPI.net
Record scrolling video as MP4, WebM, or GIF on Startup and above.
HTML/CSS to Image
Image creation returns JSON containing an image ID and hosted image URL.
The response is designed around creating and delivering images.
ScreenshotAPI.net
Extract HTML, text, Markdown, and image URLs alongside the screenshot.
Plans and pricing
ScreenshotAPI.net is cheaper in both examples. Its prices are shown as discounts from higher list prices, so check the current rate before you commit. It charges overages by plan, but doesn't publish a per-screenshot price.
$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 screenshots on Essential.
Shown as a discount from a $20 list price. A seven-day trial includes 100 screenshots.
ScreenshotAPI.net costs less at 1,000 screenshots.
$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.
$29/month for 10,000 screenshots on Startup.
Shown as a discount from a $35 list price. Adds scrolling video, proxies, and custom storage buckets.
ScreenshotAPI.net costs less at this volume.
USD, monthly billing, before tax. Distinct standard screenshots with no cache reuse. ScreenshotAPI.net doesn't count cached or failed screenshots against your quota.
Yes, at the prices currently shown: $9/month for 1,000 screenshots and $29 for 10,000, versus $14 and $69 on HTML/CSS to Image. Those prices are listed as discounts from higher list prices, so check the current rate.
Yes. Essential allows 20 requests a minute, Startup 40, and Business 80, and requests over the limit return HTTP 429. HTML/CSS to Image has no per-minute or concurrency limits.
Yes, with its custom_html parameter. HTML/CSS to Image renders HTML/CSS too, and also lets you save designs as templates and generate variations from signed URLs.
No. For scrolling video or GIFs, ScreenshotAPI.net is the better choice. HTML/CSS to Image captures still images and PDFs.
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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