Screenshot APIs compared: ScreenshotOne, Urlbox, ApiFlash and Shotlane
Four hosted screenshot APIs, compared on the numbers from their own pricing pages and docs. All four render real Chrome, take full-page and mobile screenshots and hide cookie banners and ads, so the differences are in billing, limits and what else each one does.
Which one to pick
- ScreenshotOne for a steady monthly volume with built-in IP locations, GPU rendering or native Zapier and Make apps.
- Urlbox for sites that block bots, renders longer than 90 seconds, or SLAs and enterprise contracts.
- ApiFlash for plain image screenshots at a steady high volume: the lowest price per screenshot here.
- Shotlane if your volume comes and goes or you don't want a subscription. Credits never expire and also cover PDFs, Markdown and videos.
At a glance
| Shotlane | ScreenshotOne | Urlbox | ApiFlash | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ||||
| 2,000 a month | $9once | $17/moBasic | $19/moLo-Fi | $35/mo10,000 plan |
| 10,000 a month | $29once | $79/moGrowth | $99/moUltra, 15,000 | $35/mo |
| 50,000 a month | $108once, 40k + 10k packs | $259/moScale | $495+/moBusiness | $180/mo100,000 plan |
| Free | 100/mo+ 20/day without a key | 100/mo | 7-day trial | 100/mo |
| Unused screenshots | Never expire | Monthly quota | Monthly quota | Monthly quota |
| Failed renders charged | No | No | No | ? |
| Features | ||||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Markdown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Scrolling video | ✓5 credits | ✓Growth and up | ✓ | — |
| Longest render | 90 s | 90 s | 30–300 sby plan | ? |
| Choose the IP location | Own proxy | ✓Growth and up | Own proxy | ✓custom plans |
| MCP for AI agents | ✓remote, OAuth | ✓ | ✓runs locally | — |
| Zapier / Make apps | ✕ | ✓ | Zapier | — |
| Rate limit | 1–3 at a timefree / paid | 40–150/minby plan | 30–1,000/minby plan | ? |
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✓ yes · ✕ no · — not listed on their site · ? not stated on their pricing page. Prices in USD without VAT, checked 2026-10-21. /mo is a monthly subscription; "once" is a one-time pack.
- Urlbox's Lo-Fi plan captures other people's sites only as thumbnails; Hi-Fi is $49 a month for 5,000. Its Business plan is $495 a month plus $3 per 1,000 renders.
- ScreenshotOne charges $0.004–$0.009 per screenshot over the plan if you switch overage on; Urlbox moves you to the next tier; Shotlane returns 402 until you buy another pack.
- ApiFlash's smallest paid plan is $7 a month for 1,000 screenshots. It makes PNG, JPEG and WebP only.
- Shotlane refunds bot-protection pages too, and cache hits are free. ScreenshotOne and Urlbox also don't charge for cached screenshots.
Also in Shotlane
The same credits run phone, tablet and desktop checks (screenshots plus sideways scrolling, JavaScript errors and broken images), change monitors with webhooks, site crawls and bulk jobs of up to 500 URLs.
Coming from ScreenshotOne
ScreenshotOne's parameter names work as they are: access_key, viewport_width, device_scale_factor, block_cookie_banners, image_quality, the pdf_* options and more are accepted as aliases, so switching is mostly a host change. The full mapping is in the docs under Coming from ScreenshotOne. This request uses their names:
curl "https://shotlane.dev/v1/screenshot?url=example.com&viewport_width=1280&device_scale_factor=1&block_cookie_banners=true&format=webp" \ -H "X-API-Key: $SHOTLANE_API_KEY" -o example.webp
Sources
Checked on 2026-10-21: ScreenshotOne pricing · ScreenshotOne request options · Urlbox pricing · Urlbox MCP server · ApiFlash plans. Shotlane's numbers come from our pricing and docs. All names are trademarks of their owners; Shotlane is not affiliated with them, and we sell one of the products compared here.
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