Looking for a CaptureKit alternative? Here's an honest comparison. CaptureKit is a screenshot API that also extracts page content and summarises pages with AI, sold as monthly plans. Shotmint renders screenshots, PDFs and Open Graph images with headless Chromium, paid per render with prepaid credits and no monthly plan.
| Model | Price | Free tier | Unused volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CaptureKit | Monthly or yearly subscription | Starter $7/mo for 1,000 · Pro $29/mo for 10,000 · Ultimate $89/mo for 50,000 (yearly 10% off) · Custom on request | 100 credits, no card | Monthly allowance; add-on credits for paying customers never expire |
| 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 |
CaptureKit prices are in USD and come from their public pricing page on 21 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.
CaptureKit does more than screenshots: a Page Content API (page text, links and metadata), an AI Summarizer API, stealth mode for sites that block headless browsers, caching, direct upload to your S3 bucket, webhooks, and Zapier and Make apps. Paying customers can also buy add-on credits that never expire. If you need page extraction or AI summaries next to your screenshots, or stealth mode, CaptureKit is the better fit.
You only need screenshots or PDFs, and your volume is irregular. 1,000 screenshots a month cost $84 a year on CaptureKit Starter against €24 a year on Shotmint, 10,000 a month cost $348 a year on Pro against about €156, and 50,000 a month cost $1,068 a year on Ultimate against €708 (twelve €59 packs). Credits never expire, so quiet months cost nothing. Each render is one request to /v1/screenshot (full page, a CSS selector, dark mode, retina scale, ad and cookie-banner blocking, cookies and auth headers for pages behind a login) or POST /v1/pdf, and signed /s/ URLs put a screenshot in an <img> tag without exposing your key. Failed renders are free. We have no content extraction, AI summaries, stealth mode or S3 upload, so for those pick CaptureKit.
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, CaptureKit 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, Pdfcrowd, APITemplate.io, url2png, Firecrawl, CraftMyPDF, IronPDF, SelectPdf, Prince, Aspose.HTML, EvoPdf, PDF.co, CloudConvert, pdfEndpoint, Abstract Screenshot API, 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).