PDF.co vs Screenshot API
PDF.co
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screenshot-api.netSide by side
| Figure | PDF.co | Screenshot API |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8.99/mo | $9/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 11 | 5 |
| Spec score · Screenshot APIs | 8.7 (#4) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Compliance | The security documentation states SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and AWS-hosted processing in SOC 1, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified data centers. | GDPR |
| Headquarters | 39 Mesa Street, Suite 108A, San Francisco, CA 94129, United States | Spain |
| Integrations | Official integrations include Make, Zapier, n8n, SharePoint, Airtable, Salesforce, Power Automate, UiPath, Blue Prism, Bubble and others. | The service can send comparison results to Slack and lists Forgejo/GitHub Actions, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Vercel for deploy hooks. |
| Key features | PDF compression with low, medium, high, and aggressive presets · Advanced image, font, resolution, and quality controls for compression · Asynchronous processing with job-status checking for long-running documents · PDF conversion to and from formats including HTML, Excel, CSV, XML, JSON, and images · Document and PDF data extraction, including OCR and structured parsing · PDF editing, encryption, decryption, and form filling · PDF merging and splitting · Workflow integrations through Zapier, Make, n8n, and other platforms | 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 |
| Purpose | PDF.co provides low-code REST APIs to automate PDF conversion, editing, extraction, and related document workflows. | The hosted API captures web pages and returns PNG, JPEG, or WebP images in one request. |
| Security | PDF.co says it uses SSL/TLS and encryption at rest, and offers user-controlled AES encryption and decryption. | Requests to private networks, loopback addresses, and cloud metadata are refused, with the renderer also blocked from that traffic at the network layer. |
Plans
PDF.co
- Basic$8.99 a month
- Personal$22.49 a month
- Business 1$44.99 a month
- Business 2$89.99 a month
- Business 3$270 a month
- Basic$8.99 a month
- Personal$22.49 a month
- Business 1$44.99 a month
- Business 2$89.99 a month
- Business 3$270 a month
Screenshot API
- FreeFree
- Starter$9 a month
- Pro$29 a month
- Team$49 a month
- Business$149 a month
In their own words
Screenshot API
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