Restpack alternative with no subscription

Looking for a Restpack alternative? Here's an honest comparison. Restpack is a good product. Shotmint is a simpler, pay-as-you-go option for people who don't want another monthly bill.

Pricing at a glance

	Model	Price	Free tier	Unused volume
Restpack	Monthly subscription with overage	Developer $9.95/mo for 1,000 · Startup $39.95/mo for 10,000 · Business $99.95/mo for 40,000 · Business Plus $499.95/mo for 300,000 · Enterprise on request (overage $0.01 down to $0.0017 per screenshot)	7-day trial	Monthly quota, resets each month
Shotmint	Prepaid credits, no subscription	€5 / 2,000 · €19 / 10,000 · €59 / 50,000 (one-time)	100 free renders, no signup	Never expire

Restpack prices are in USD and come from their public pricing page on 19 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.

Where Restpack is the better choice

Restpack has a simple, well-documented screenshot API with thumbnail output, raw HTML input, CSS and JS injection, lazy-loading support and CDN-hosted results, and a sister HTML-to-PDF API. Overage is billed per screenshot instead of blocking you, and at high steady volume (Business Plus: 300,000 a month for $499.95) its unit price is very low. According to its pricing table, element capture, custom headers and ad and cookie-warning blocking start from the Startup plan, retina from Business, and batch conversion, multiple regions and delivery options are on Enterprise. If you render a large, predictable volume every month, Restpack is a good fit.

When Shotmint fits better

Your volume is low or irregular, or you do not want another monthly bill. 2,000 renders cost €5 once on Shotmint; on Restpack that is the $9.95 Developer plan plus 1,000 overage screenshots ($19.95) every month, and the unused part of a monthly quota does not carry over. Shotmint credits never expire and every feature is available on every pack: full-page and single-element selector captures, mobile emulation, retina (device_scale_factor), dark mode, block_ads (ads, trackers and cookie banners), WebP output and transparent backgrounds. The same credits cover URL-to-PDF and HTML-to-PDF, 1200×630 Open Graph cards and signed <img> URLs for live website thumbnails, and failed renders are free. A free key with 100 renders takes one request, with no signup and no card. If you need multi-region capture, batch jobs or delivery to your own storage, Restpack's Enterprise plan covers that and we do not 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, Restpack 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, ScrapingBee, DocRaptor. Yearly cost at three volumes: screenshot API pricing and HTML to PDF API pricing.