html2pdf.app alternative for HTML to PDF, without a monthly plan

Looking for an html2pdf.app alternative? Here's an honest comparison. html2pdf.app is a headless-Chromium HTML-to-PDF API sold as monthly credit plans. Shotmint also renders with headless Chromium, and does PDFs, screenshots and Open Graph images, paid per render with no monthly plan.

Pricing at a glance

	Model	Price	Free tier	Unused volume
html2pdf.app	Monthly subscription (credits reset on the 1st)	Startup $9/mo for 1,000 · Standard $25/mo for 5,000 · Scale $39/mo for 10,000 · up to Scale 100 at $229/mo for 100,000 (1 credit per 5 MB of PDF; about 17% off yearly)	100 credits every month, PDFs up to 1 MB	Reset monthly
Shotmint	Prepaid credits, no subscription	€5 / 2,000 · €19 / 10,000 · €59 / 50,000 (one-time)	100 free renders, no signup	Never expire

html2pdf.app prices are in USD and come from their public pricing page on 20 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.

Where html2pdf.app is the better choice

html2pdf.app has PDF options we don't: header and footer templates, PDF encryption with user/owner passwords and permissions, asynchronous generation with a callback URL, custom page sizes in pixels, and a WordPress PDF plugin. Its free plan renews every month (100 credits, PDFs up to 1 MB), so if you make fewer than 100 small PDFs a month, forever, it costs nothing, while Shotmint's 100 free renders are one-time. Paid plans also come with more parallel conversions (3 to 100). If you need headers and footers, encryption or callbacks from the API, html2pdf.app is the better fit.

When Shotmint fits better

Your volume is above the free 100 a month but low or irregular, or you also need screenshots. 2,000 PDFs cost €5 once on Shotmint and the credits never expire, while html2pdf.app Startup is $9 a month for 1,000 ($108 a year, and unused credits reset each month). At 10,000 PDFs a month, Shotmint costs about €156 a year against $468 for html2pdf.app Scale. Shotmint counts one credit per document whatever its size. POST /v1/pdf takes a URL or raw HTML with A3/A4/A5/Letter/Legal/Tabloid, landscape, margins, scale and backgrounds, and the same credits cover PNG/JPEG/WebP screenshots and 1200×630 Open Graph cards. Failed renders are free, and a free key with 100 renders takes one request, with no signup. We have no header/footer templates, encryption or callbacks yet.

What Shotmint does

• 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, and backgrounds.
• 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.
• A failed render never costs a credit. Every response includes an X-Credits-Remaining header.
• A real headless Chromium renders every page, so modern CSS, web fonts, and JavaScript work.

Shotmint is a new, small service. It doesn't have SDKs, integrations, or enterprise plans yet. If you need those, html2pdf.app may suit you better. If you want an API key in 10 seconds and to pay only for what you use, try it.

Other comparisons

ScreenshotOne, Urlbox, PDFShift, ApiFlash, PagePixels, ScreenshotAPI.net, HTML/CSS to Image, Microlink, Screenshot Machine, Screenshotlayer, Bannerbear, Placid, Browshot, Restpack, ScrapingBee, DocRaptor, pdflayer. Yearly cost at three volumes: screenshot API pricing and HTML to PDF API pricing.