Browshot vs ScreenshotAPI
Browshot
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screenshotapi.netSide by side
| Figure | Browshot | ScreenshotAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1/mo | $9/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 12 | 4 |
| Spec score · Screenshot APIs | 9.3 (#1) | 8.0 (#17) |
| Spec score · Website Screenshot Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.9 (#4) |
| Automation | Premium and private browsers support automation steps such as clicking, typing, JavaScript execution, sleeping, navigation and screenshots. | Scheduled captures can run hourly, daily, or weekly and save outputs to the user's cloud storage bucket. |
| Deployment | cloud | cloud |
| Integrations | Amazon S3 | The maker lists Zapier, Google Sheets, Make, n8n, viaSocket, and storage integrations. |
| 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 | HTTP API for rendering a URL as a screenshot · Full-page webpage capture · Configurable viewport and device settings · Mobile and desktop rendering options · Image and PDF output · Custom rendering options such as delays and selectors |
| Support | Browshot accepts questions, comments and bug reports through its contact form and [email protected]. | The pricing page lists email/chat support for Essential and Startup, and email/video-meeting support for Business, with response times of two business days, one business day, and eight hours respectively. |
| Support | email, docs | 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
ScreenshotAPI
- Free TrialFree
- Essential$9 a month
- Startup$29 a month
- Business$175 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.
ScreenshotAPI
ScreenshotAPI has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.