Looking for a CraftMyPDF alternative? Here's an honest comparison. CraftMyPDF generates PDFs and images from templates you design in its drag-and-drop editor, then fill with JSON, sold as monthly plans with a monthly allowance. Shotmint renders PDFs and screenshots from any URL or raw HTML with headless Chromium, paid per render with prepaid credits and no monthly plan.
| Model | Price | Free tier | Unused volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CraftMyPDF | Monthly or annual subscription | Lite $29/mo for 1,200 · Plus $49/mo for 3,000 · Professional $99/mo for 12,000 · Premium $299/mo for 40,000 (annual: ten months' price, e.g. $290/yr for Lite). 1 PDF = 1 credit, any page count | Free plan: 50 PDFs or images a month, 3 templates, no card | Allowance resets monthly, annual plans too; no rollover |
| 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 |
CraftMyPDF prices are in USD and come from their public pricing page on 22 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.
CraftMyPDF is built for people who would rather design a document than write HTML: a drag-and-drop template editor with expressions and data binding, reusable templates you fill with JSON, and PDF or image output. It has Zapier, Make.com and Bubble.io integrations on every plan, including the free one, so no-code users can generate invoices or certificates without a developer, and from the Professional plan it adds team accounts, upload to your own S3 bucket and password-protected PDFs. Its free plan renews 50 documents every month, which covers very small workloads for free. If your team wants a visual template editor or works mainly in no-code tools, CraftMyPDF is the better fit.
You already have HTML (or a page at a URL) and want it as a PDF or image, or your volume is irregular. Paying for a full year up front, 1,200 PDFs a month cost $290 on Lite against €34 on Shotmint (one €19 pack and three €5 packs), 3,000 a month cost $490 on Plus against €59 (one 50,000-render Scale pack), and 12,000 a month cost $990 on Professional against €177 (three Scale packs). CraftMyPDF's allowance resets every month, so unused PDFs are lost; Shotmint credits never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing. There is no template limit either: your template is your own HTML, built with whatever framework you like. POST /v1/pdf takes a URL or raw HTML with A3/A4/A5/Letter/Legal/Tabloid, landscape, margins, scale, backgrounds, header and footer templates and page numbers; the same credits cover PNG/JPEG/WebP screenshots and page-to-Markdown. Failed renders are free, and a free key with 25 renders a month takes one request, with no signup. For an invoice example, see the HTML to PDF invoices guide or try the free invoice generator. We have no visual editor, document storage or S3 upload, so for those pick CraftMyPDF.
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, CraftMyPDF 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, 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).