Screenshot Machine alternative with no subscription

Looking for a Screenshot Machine alternative? Here's an honest comparison. Screenshot Machine 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
Screenshot Machine	Monthly subscription with overage	Basic €9/mo for 2,500 screenshots · Pro €59/mo for 20,000 · Enterprise €99/mo for 50,000 (overage €0.004 to €0.002 per extra screenshot, billed per full 1,000)	100 fresh screenshots/month free	Monthly quota resets; repeated requests served from their 14-day cache are free
Shotmint	Prepaid credits, no subscription	€5 / 2,000 · €19 / 10,000 · €59 / 50,000 (one-time)	100 free renders, no signup	Never expire

Screenshot Machine prices are in EUR and come from their public pricing page on 18 October 2026. Prices change, so check their current pricing. Shotmint prices are in EUR.

Where Screenshot Machine is the better choice

Screenshot Machine has been running since 2012, publishes a 99.99% uptime SLA and a status page, and is genuinely cheap: €9 a month buys 2,500 fresh screenshots, cached repeats are free for 14 days, hot-linking is allowed, and the first 999 extra screenshots each month cost nothing. It also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you capture a steady few thousand screenshots every month and want a long track record, it is a very good choice.

When Shotmint fits better

Your usage is occasional or bursty, or you also need PDFs from raw HTML and Open Graph cards. With Shotmint you buy credits once (€5 for 2,000 renders, €19 for 10,000, €59 for 50,000) and they never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing instead of €9. You get a free key with 100 renders without signing up, failed renders never cost a credit, and you get WebP output, transparent backgrounds, single-element selector captures and signed public URLs. If you need the same few thousand screenshots every month, Screenshot Machine's Basic plan is about as cheap as it gets, and we would rather tell you that.

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, Screenshot Machine may suit you better. If you want an API key in 10 seconds and to pay only for what you use, try it.