Looking for an EvoPdf alternative? Here's an honest comparison, with a test we ran ourselves. EvoPdf Next is a .NET library that bundles its own Chromium-based engine and converts HTML to PDF inside your application, sold as perpetual licenses per deployment. Shotmint is an HTTP API built on Chromium: you send a URL or raw HTML from C# (or any language) and get a PDF or screenshot back, paid per render with prepaid credits.
| Model | Price | Free tier | Unused volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EvoPdf HTML to PDF Converter (Next + Classic) | Perpetual license; updates and support for the first year | Deployment License $450 (one application on one server; load-balanced, containerised or autoscaled deployments are excluded) · Company License $1,200 (unlimited developers, applications and servers) · Full toolkit $650 / $1,400 · Maintenance renewal from $250/yr | Evaluation: full product, no time limit, "EVO PDF Demo" stamp on every page | No per-document limit on a licensed server |
| 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 |
EvoPdf 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.
EvoPdf Next is a good converter. It bundles Chromium, so in our test it rendered modern CSS (grid, clamp()), web fonts and JavaScript correctly, and the Wikipedia article on PDF came out fully styled in 2.3 s, about as fast as our API. Documents never leave your servers, there is no per-document cost once licensed, and it adds things an API like ours doesn't: tagged PDF/UA output, HTML form fields turned into PDF form fields, element positions in the PDF, and a toolkit for Word, Excel and Markdown to PDF. At sustained volumes above roughly 30,000 PDFs a month on a single server, the $450 perpetual license also costs less than our credits. If you need offline conversion or form fields in a .NET app, EvoPdf is the better fit.
You don't want to license, ship and patch a browser engine inside every deployment. We installed EvoPdf.Next.HtmlToPdf.Linux 14.86.1 from NuGet into a .NET 10 app on Ubuntu, 22 October 2026. It worked on the first run, but the package pulls a 311 MB native runtime (evopdf_runtimes, 439 MB in the NuGet cache) into your build output, the README asks you to chmod +x its evopdf_loadhtml binary and install libnss3, libatk-bridge2.0-0, libcairo2 and libpango-1.0-0 on Linux, and a converter instance throws "converter instances are not reusable" on a second call, so you create one per document. Licensing is per server: the $450 Deployment License covers one application on one server, and anything behind a load balancer, in a container cluster or with autoscaling needs the $1,200 Company License, plus maintenance from $250 a year for updates after year one. With Shotmint, 1,000 PDFs a month for a year cost €24 (one €19 pack and one €5 pack), and 10,000 a month cost €156, from any number of servers, containers or languages. Credits never expire, failed renders are free, and there is nothing to install or update. POST /v1/pdf takes a URL or raw HTML with page formats, margins, header and footer templates, page numbers and your own @page CSS; see the C# HTML to PDF guide for a tested HttpClient example. A free key with 25 renders a month takes one request, with no signup. We don't make fillable form fields, and we can't run offline, so for those pick EvoPdf.
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, EvoPdf 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, 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).