Browshot vs Screenshot API
Browshot
browshot.comScreenshot API
screenshot-api.netSide by side
| Figure | Browshot | Screenshot API |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1/mo | $9/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 12 | 5 |
| Spec score · Screenshot APIs | 9.3 (#1) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Deployment | cloud | cloud, browser extension |
| Headquarters | Campbell, California, USA | Spain |
| Integrations | Amazon S3 | The service can send comparison results to Slack and lists Forgejo/GitHub Actions, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Vercel for deploy hooks. |
| Key features | Real-time screenshots of web pages · Screen and full-page capture modes · Desktop and mobile virtual browsers · Custom browser viewport dimensions · Thumbnails with cropping, scaling, and PNG or JPEG output · REST API and open-source client libraries · JavaScript execution and browser automation steps · Batch, multiple-URL, and domain-crawl screenshot requests | Capture pages as PNG, JPEG, or WebP · Capture full scrollable pages · Set custom viewport width and height · Set device scale for retina output · Set a delay before capture · Render with dark-mode preference · Compare a page with another URL or stored baseline and return a visual diff · Create scheduled snapshot sets and send summaries to Slack |
| Support | email, docs | email, docs |
Plans
Browshot
- 10 credits$1 a month
- 60 credits$2 a month
- 300 credits$5 a month
- 1,000 credits$10 a month
- 3,000 credits$25 a month
- 8,000 credits$50 a month
- 20,000 credits$100 a month
- 45,000 credits$200 a month
- 125,000 credits$500 a month
- FreeFree
Screenshot API
- FreeFree
- Starter$9 a month
- Pro$29 a month
- Team$49 a month
- Business$149 a month
In their own words
Browshot
Browshot is a web service for taking real-time screenshots of live websites through a dashboard or API. It supports more than 30 virtual browsers, including mobile and desktop choices, and can capture screen or full-page views as well as thumbnails. Requested output can be PNG or JPEG, with specified viewport dimensions and thumbnail size and aspect ratio. Browshot uses real desktop and mobile browsers that support HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, image loading, and redirects. Its REST API uses an API key; open-source libraries are available for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and C#, with Swagger specifications for generating other clients. Premium and private browsers can perform actions such as navigation, clicking, typing, JavaScript execution, and screenshots. Trackers can extract page values, and screenshots can be sent to Amazon S3 or hosted by Browshot over HTTPS. The free plan provides 100 screenshots per month with reduced browser and resolution choices and shared browsers. Paid plans start at $1 a month. Average screenshot completion, including page load, is about 15 seconds; pages taking over two minutes are aborted without charge for failed screenshots.
Screenshot API
Screenshot API has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.