getSnap.dev vs ScreenshotOne

ScreenshotOne is a solid API, but getSnap.dev gives you more features for less money — with AI popup removal, batch processing, and text extraction included.

Pricing Comparison

ScreenshotOne's Basic plan is $17/mo for 2,000 screenshots ($8.50/1K). getSnap.dev's Starter is $9/mo for 5,000 ($1.80/1K) — 4.7x cheaper per screenshot, and 2.5x the volume for half the price.

Their Growth plan is $79/mo for 10,000 ($7.90/1K) and Scale is $259/mo for 50,000 ($5.18/1K). getSnap.dev Business is $79/mo for 100,000 ($0.79/1K) — the price of their Growth plan, for 10x the captures.

In their favour: ScreenshotOne bills only for successful requests and does not count cached screenshots against your quota, which genuinely softens the headline rate if your workload repeats the same URLs. Their overage is also keenly priced at $0.004–$0.009 per extra screenshot.

Competitor pricing checked 4 October 2026 against screenshotone.com/pricing. Providers change their plans; if these figures look stale, theirs is the authority, not ours.

Feature Comparison

Feature	getSnap.dev	ScreenshotOne
PNG, JPG, WebP output	Yes	Yes
PDF generation	Yes	Yes
Full page capture	Yes	Yes
Custom viewport	Yes	Yes
Mobile emulation	Yes	Yes
Element capture (CSS selector)	Yes	Yes
Dark mode	Yes	Yes
Retina / HiDPI	Yes	Yes
Ad blocking	Yes (default)	Yes
AI popup removal (90+ selectors)	Yes (default)	No (CSS only)
Lazy load (auto-scroll)	Yes	Yes
Wait for CSS selector	Yes	Yes
Click element before capture	Yes	Yes
Scroll to element	Yes	No
Hide/remove selectors	Yes	Yes (hide only)
Custom CSS injection	Yes	Yes
Custom JS injection	Yes	Yes
Custom cookies & headers	Yes	Yes
Extract text content	Yes	No
Extract HTML	Yes	Yes
Batch capture (multi-URL)	Yes (100 URLs)	No
Render links (signed URLs)	Yes	Yes
Async webhooks	Yes	No
S3-compatible upload	Yes	Yes
CDN delivery	Yes	Yes
Transparent background	Yes	Yes
AVIF output format	Yes	Yes
Full-page slicing for AI vision	Yes	No
Page metadata extraction (title, favicon, OG, fonts, status)	Yes	Partial
PDF page-range filter	Yes	No
PDF document metadata (title/subject/author/keywords/creator)	Yes	No
Clip region capture (x, y, width, height)	Yes	Yes
Cookie-consent auto-accept	Yes	Block only
Scheduled captures (cron + webhook + HMAC)	Yes	No
Scrolling video (MP4/GIF)	Yes	No
Geo/proxy routing (BYOP + managed pool)	Yes	Yes
Node.js SDK	Yes	Yes
Python SDK	Yes	Yes
Free tier	100/mo	100/mo
Entry price	$9/mo (5,000)	$17/mo (2,000)
Price per 1,000 at entry	$1.80	$8.50
Largest listed plan	$79/mo (100,000)	$259/mo (50,000)

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 ScreenshotOne?

3-4x cheaper at every pricing tier
AI popup removal — automatically removes 90+ types of popups, banners, and modals (enabled by default)
Batch capture — process up to 100 URLs in a single API call
Async webhooks — get notified when long-running captures complete
Text extraction — get visible text content alongside your screenshot
Same API simplicity — one POST request, JSON response with CDN URL

Migrating from ScreenshotOne

ScreenshotOne is the closest of the four to our own design: it accepts POST with a JSON body and takes its key in a header (X-Access-Key). If you are already using the POST form, migrating is almost entirely a matter of changing the host, the path and the header name.

The same capture, both ways

ScreenshotOne

GET https://api.screenshotone.com/take
  ?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
  &url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com

# or POST https://api.screenshotone.com/take with a JSON body
# and the key in an X-Access-Key header

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

ScreenshotOne	getSnap.dev	Notes
`X-Access-Key` header	`X-API-Key` header	Header name only. If you pass `access_key` in the query string instead, move it to the header.
`/take`	`/v1/screenshot`	Host becomes `api.getsnap.dev`.
`"url"`	`"url"`	Unchanged.

ScreenshotOne documents its options on a separate reference page, so the remaining field names are listed there rather than reproduced here from memory.

Mapping checked against ScreenshotOne'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 ScreenshotOne if…

Your workload repeats the same URLs. ScreenshotOne does not count cached screenshots against your quota and bills only for successful requests, which materially softens their headline rate in a way a price-per-1,000 comparison does not capture.
You want their overage pricing, which is keen at $0.004-$0.009 per extra screenshot.
You are already integrated and the per-unit difference does not outweigh the cost of moving. That is a legitimate answer.

Move to getSnap.dev if…

Per-unit cost matters: their Basic is $8.50/1,000 against our $1.80/1,000, and our Business plan costs the same as their Growth plan while including 10x the captures.
You need scheduled captures, team billing with a shared quota, or a referral programme.
You want a free tier you can stay on indefinitely rather than evaluate on.

Frequently asked questions

Is getSnap.dev a drop-in replacement for ScreenshotOne?

Close, but not literally drop-in. ScreenshotOne uses GET or POST, key in query or header, so the move is a change of host, authentication header and a few renamed fields. The mapping table above lists them. Most integrations are a single afternoon.

Can I try getSnap.dev before leaving ScreenshotOne?

Yes. The free tier is 100 captures a month with no credit card and no time limit, which is enough to run both side by side against your real URLs and compare the output before committing.

How does getSnap.dev pricing compare to ScreenshotOne?

The figures are in the comparison above, checked against their own pricing page on 4 October 2026. Pricing moves, so treat their site as the authority if the numbers look stale.

Do I need to run my own headless browser?

No. getSnap.dev runs Chromium server-side and returns a finished image, PDF or video. You never install Playwright or Puppeteer and never maintain a browser pool.