Price per 1,000 captures

The number that matters, because the plan names do not line up between providers.

One caveat on Urlbox’s entry tier

Urlbox’s $19 Lo-Fi plan is headed “Screenshot websites you own”, and its feature table lists third-party website screenshots as “Thumbnails Only”. Lo-Fi also has a 2.5 MB file-size cap and no render links, async API, custom headers or JS, proxy support or S3 output.

The same row reads “Most” on Hi-Fi ($49 for 5,000) and “All” only from Ultra ($99 for 15,000) upward. So if you are capturing sites you do not own — which is what most people want a screenshot API for — the honest comparison starts at $49 and reaches full coverage at $99, not at the $19 every roundup quotes.

We have left $19 in the table above because it is their published entry price and we would rather not quietly restate someone else’s pricing to suit us. Urlbox are not hiding any of this; it is on their own feature table. Checked 24 October 2026 on their pricing page.

Where a provider has no plan at a given volume, the nearest plan above it is shown with its included quota, since that is what you would actually pay. All figures checked 22 October 2026 against screenshotone.com, urlbox.com, apiflash.com and screenshotapi.net. Providers change their plans. If these look stale, theirs is the authority, not ours.

Where the difference actually comes from

Not a loss leader, and not a thinner product. Three things:

• One price covers every feature. PDF, scrolling video, geo routing, scheduled captures, webhooks and the accessibility audit are all on every paid plan. Several providers put rendering fidelity, proxies or video behind a higher tier, so the headline rate is not what a real workload costs.
• Cached responses are free. Identical requests return cached: true and cost nothing. For monitoring and OG images — where the same URL is captured repeatedly — that is most of the bill at other providers.
• No per-seat or per-project charge. Teams share one quota and one rate limit.

What cheap normally costs you, and what it does not here

A fair question when the gap is this wide, so the honest answers:

• Rendering engine. Playwright with real Chromium, the same engine the expensive providers use. Not a headless screenshot library.
• Rate limits. 5/min on free, 30/min on Starter, 60/min on Pro. Lower than enterprise tiers elsewhere; ample for most work, and stated rather than discovered.
• Uptime. We target 99.9% and publish real uptime data. The monitor checks a health endpoint that verifies Redis and the database, not a static page.
• Company size. Small. If that matters for your procurement, it is a genuine reason to pay more elsewhere, and we would rather say so here than have you find out later.

Try the arithmetic before you believe it

The free screenshot tool runs the same engine the API does, with no account. The pricing page has the full plan detail, and the docs show the request shape.