Feature Comparison

Feature	getSnap.dev	ApiFlash
PNG, JPG, WebP output	Yes	Yes
PDF generation	Yes	Yes
Full page capture	Yes	Yes
Custom viewport	Yes	Yes
Mobile emulation	Yes (device presets)	Viewport only
Element capture (CSS selector)	Yes	Yes
Dark mode	Yes	No
Retina / HiDPI	Yes (0.5-3x)	Yes
Ad blocking	Yes (default)	Yes
AI popup removal (90+ selectors)	Yes (default)	No
Lazy load (auto-scroll)	Yes	Yes
Wait for CSS selector	Yes	No
Click element before capture	Yes	No
Scroll to element	Yes	No
Hide/remove selectors	Yes	No
Custom CSS injection	Yes	Yes
Custom JS injection	Yes	No
Custom cookies & headers	Yes	Cookies only
Extract text content	Yes	No
Extract HTML	Yes	No
Render HTML directly	Yes	No
Batch capture (multi-URL)	Yes (100 URLs)	No
Render links (signed URLs)	Yes	No
Async webhooks	Yes	No
S3-compatible upload	Yes	No
CDN delivery	Yes	Yes (temporary)
Transparent background	Yes	Yes
AVIF output format	Yes	No
Full-page slicing for AI vision	Yes	No
Page metadata extraction (title, favicon, OG, fonts, status)	Yes	No
Granular request blocking (images, fonts, scripts, frames, URLs)	Yes	No
Custom PDF header/footer templates	Yes	No
PDF page-range filter	Yes	No
PDF document metadata (title/subject/author/keywords/creator)	Yes	No
Clip region capture (x, y, width, height)	Yes	No
Cookie-consent auto-accept	Yes	No
Scheduled captures (cron + webhook + HMAC)	Yes	No
Scrolling video (MP4/GIF)	Yes	No
reduced_motion & media_type emulation	Yes	No
Geo-targeting	BYOP + managed pool	Yes
Node.js SDK	Yes	Repo exists, described as a placeholder
Python SDK	Yes	Yes
Free tier	100/mo	100/mo
Entry price	$9/mo (5,000)	$7/mo (1,000)
Price per 1,000 at entry	$1.80	$7.00
100,000 / month	$79/mo	$180/mo

Feature and SDK availability checked against each vendor's documentation and public repositories on 5 October 2026. Capabilities change; theirs is the authority if these differ.

Why Choose getSnap.dev Over ApiFlash?

• 2.5x cheaper per screenshot at every tier
• AI popup removal — 90+ selectors remove banners, modals, chat widgets (ApiFlash has nothing similar)
• JavaScript injection — run custom code before capture (ApiFlash only supports CSS)
• Batch capture — 100 URLs in one call vs one-at-a-time with ApiFlash
• Text & HTML extraction — scrape alongside your screenshots
• Webhooks — async captures with delivery notification
• S3 upload — direct to your own storage
• HTML rendering — render HTML strings directly without hosting them
• Official SDKs — Node.js (TypeScript) and Python clients

When ApiFlash Might Be Better

• You need geo-targeted screenshots from a managed proxy pool without wiring up your own provider (getSnap.dev supports BYOP proxies today; managed pool activates when the deployment sets PROXY_URL_TEMPLATE)
• You prefer a GET-based API with URL parameters (getSnap.dev uses POST with JSON body)

Migrating from ApiFlash

ApiFlash accepts GET with query parameters (and a POST form variant), and returns the image bytes directly. getSnap.dev is POST with a JSON body and returns a CDN URL by default. That difference is the whole migration: your parameters move out of the query string and into a JSON object, and you read .url from the response instead of piping the body to a file.

The same capture, both ways

ApiFlash

GET https://api.apiflash.com/v1/urltoimage
  ?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
  &url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com

# the image itself comes back as the response body

getSnap.dev

curl -X POST https://api.getsnap.dev/v1/screenshot \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com", "format": "png", "full_page": true}'

# -> {"url": "https://cdn.../screenshots/....png"}

Parameter mapping

ApiFlash	getSnap.dev	Notes
access_key=…	X-API-Key header	Moves out of the URL, which is the point - a key in a query string lands in browser history, Referer headers and every proxy log in between.
url=…	"url"	Same meaning. No longer needs URL-encoding, because it is a JSON string.
(image in response body)	"url" in the JSON response	Set "response_type": "binary" if you would rather have the bytes, which keeps the old behaviour.

ApiFlash's parameter table did not load when we checked its documentation, so width, height, delay and quality are listed there rather than guessed here. The shape of the move is the same for all of them: query parameter becomes JSON field.

Mapping checked against ApiFlash's own documentation on 4 October 2026.

Which should you choose?

Plainly, because a comparison page that never recommends the competitor is not a comparison, it is an advert.

Stay with ApiFlash if…

• You need fewer than about 1,000 captures a month and want the cheapest possible entry - their Lite plan at $7/mo genuinely beats our $9 Starter at that volume.
• You want a GET-based API you can drop straight into an <img src> without a server. We do that with signed render links instead, which is more setup but does not put your key in the markup.
• You need a managed geo-proxy pool out of the box rather than bringing your own proxy.

Move to getSnap.dev if…

• You are past a few thousand captures a month - at 10,000 they are $3.50/1,000 against our $1.16/1,000.
• You want scheduled captures, visual diffing, accessibility audits, batch capture or scrolling video, none of which ApiFlash offers.
• You want an official SDK: we publish Node.js and Python clients.

Frequently asked questions

Related reading

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