Looking for a CloudConvert alternative for website screenshots or HTML to PDF? Here's an honest comparison. CloudConvert is a general file conversion API (200+ formats) that also captures websites as PDF, PNG or JPG through its capture-website operation, billed in conversion credits. Shotmint does only rendering: a URL or raw HTML in, a screenshot or PDF out, in one request, paid with prepaid credits.
| Model | Price | Free tier | Unused volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CloudConvert | One-time credit packages, or a cheaper monthly subscription | Package $17 for 1,000 · $32 for 2,000 · $71 for 5,000 · $165 for 13,000 · Subscription $9/mo for 1,000 · $39/mo for 5,000 · $92/mo for 13,000. A capture is 1 credit, plus 1 per extra minute | 10 credits a day, account needed, for personal use, testing and hobby projects | Package credits never expire; subscription credits reset monthly |
| 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 |
CloudConvert prices are in USD and come from their public pricing page on 24 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.
CloudConvert is much more than a website capture tool. One account converts documents, spreadsheets, images, audio, video, e-books and archives between more than 200 formats, with official SDKs for PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java and .NET, official Zapier, Make, Power Automate and n8n integrations, an MCP server, EU and US processing regions, and a sandbox API for free integration tests. Its capture-website task has options we also offer (wait conditions, a CSS selector to wait for, print or screen media, header and footer templates, custom request headers) and closes cookie consent banners automatically. Its free plan (10 credits a day, about 300 a month) is larger than ours if your use is personal. If you also convert Office files, media or images in the same workflow, CloudConvert is the better fit.
You only need screenshots and PDFs of web pages or your own HTML, and you want one request instead of a job. On CloudConvert a capture is a job with two tasks (capture-website, then export/url); you wait for the job, then download the file from the export URL, and raw HTML has to be imported as a file first. With Shotmint, GET /v1/screenshot?url=... or POST /v1/pdf with {"html": "..."} returns the PNG or PDF bytes directly. It also costs less at every volume on CloudConvert's pricing page: 2,000 captures are $32 as a package and €5 on Shotmint; 1,000 a month for a year are $108 on the $9 subscription and €24 on Shotmint (one €19 pack and one €5 pack); 5,000 a month are $468 a year on the $39 subscription and €78 on Shotmint. Our credits never expire, like CloudConvert's packages, and a failed render is free. A free key with 25 renders a month takes one request with no signup, so a Make or Zapier scenario can create its own (see the n8n, Make and Zapier guide). We don't convert files between formats, so for DOCX, video or image conversions keep CloudConvert.
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, CloudConvert 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, 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).