Looking for an Abstract Website Screenshot API alternative? Here's an honest comparison. Abstract API sells many small APIs (email validation, IP geolocation, scraping, screenshots), each with its own key and its own plan. Its screenshot API has a free plan and one paid tier at $99 a month. Shotmint is a Chromium rendering API for screenshots, PDFs and Open Graph images, paid with prepaid credits that never expire.
| Model | Price | Free tier | Unused volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Screenshot API | Monthly or yearly subscription, one key per Abstract API | Free $0 for 100 requests · Standard $99/mo for 60,000 requests a month (3 requests a second) · Enterprise custom | 100 requests, 1 request a second | Plan allowance; rollover not stated on their pricing page |
| Shotmint | Prepaid credits, no subscription | €5 / 2,000 · €19 / 10,000 · €59 / 50,000 (one-time) | 25 free renders a month, no signup | Never expire |
Abstract Screenshot API prices are in USD and come from their public pricing page on 25 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.
Abstract is a good fit if you already use its other APIs: one vendor and one dashboard for email validation, phone and IP lookups, VAT and IBAN checks, scraping and screenshots. It advertises SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, and its Enterprise plan adds a 99.99% uptime SLA, SSO and 24/7 support, which we don't offer. The API itself is simple: a URL plus optional capture_full_page, width, height, delay, css_injection, user_agent and export_format (JPEG or PNG). If you need about 60,000 screenshots every month, $99 works out to $1.65 per 1,000.
You need more than 100 screenshots but far fewer than 60,000 a month. Abstract has no tier in between, so 1,000 screenshots a month cost $1,188 a year on Standard, against €24 a year on Shotmint (one €19 pack and one €5 pack cover the 11,700 beyond the 25 free renders each month); 10,000 a month cost the same $1,188 against about €156, and 50,000 a month $1,188 against €708 (twelve €59 packs). Our credits never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing. Shotmint also does things the Abstract docs don't list: PDFs from a URL or raw HTML (POST /v1/pdf), WebP output, a single-element selector, mobile devices, dark mode, retina scale, transparent backgrounds, ad and cookie-banner blocking (block_ads), hide_selectors, cookies and auth headers for pages behind a login, page Markdown for LLMs (/v1/content), and signed /s/ URLs that put a screenshot in an <img> tag without exposing your key. Custom CSS (css), a custom user agent and a delay work on both. Failed renders are free. A free key with 25 renders a month takes one request with no signup, so a script, an AI agent (through our MCP server) or a Make or Zapier scenario can get its own. We have no enterprise plan, SLA or other data APIs, so for those pick Abstract.
GET /v1/screenshot: PNG, JPEG or WebP screenshots of any URL, with full-page capture, custom viewport, retina scale, a single-element selector, dark mode, transparent backgrounds (omit_background), ad and cookie-banner blocking (block_ads), and hide_selectors.POST /v1/pdf: PDFs from a URL or raw HTML, with format, landscape, margins, backgrounds, header and footer templates, and page numbers.GET /v1/content: the main content of any page or PDF link as Markdown, plain text or clean HTML, with title, author and date, for LLMs and RAG.GET /v1/og: 1200×630 Open Graph cards from a title and subtitle, with signed public URLs you can put straight in an og:image tag.X-Credits-Remaining header.Shotmint is a new, small service. It has small Node and Python SDKs and integration guides, but no enterprise plans, SLA or team accounts yet (measured uptime and render times are public on /status). If you need those, Abstract Screenshot API may suit you better. If you want an API key in 10 seconds and to pay only for what you use, try it.
ScreenshotOne, Urlbox, PDFShift, ApiFlash, PagePixels, ScreenshotAPI.net, HTML/CSS to Image, Microlink, Screenshot Machine, Screenshotlayer, Bannerbear, Placid, Browshot, Restpack, ScrapingBee, DocRaptor, pdflayer, html2pdf.app, Browserless, PDFMonkey, Doppio, CaptureKit, Pdfcrowd, APITemplate.io, url2png, Firecrawl, CraftMyPDF, IronPDF, SelectPdf, Prince, Aspose.HTML, EvoPdf, PDF.co, CloudConvert, pdfEndpoint, GrabzIt. Yearly cost at three volumes: screenshot API pricing and HTML to PDF API pricing.
No signup, no card; the free key refills on the 1st of every month. If you need more, buy credits once: €5 for 2,000, €19 for 10,000, €59 for 50,000. They never expire, and they stack on top of the 25 free renders a month, which every key keeps. From a script, an AI agent, Make or Zapier, POST /v1/keys/free (no body) returns a key as JSON (openapi.json, no-code recipes).