PDFShift vs Screenshot API
PDFShift
pdfshift.ioScreenshot API
screenshot-api.netSide by side
| Figure | PDFShift | Screenshot API |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $24/mo | $9/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 5 |
| Spec score · Screenshot APIs | 7.5 (#26) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Compliance | GDPR, HIPAA | GDPR |
| Deployment | cloud | cloud, browser extension |
| Headquarters | France | 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 | HTML-to-PDF conversion from public URLs · Conversion from raw HTML submitted through the API · CSS and JavaScript injection/rendering · Advanced headers and footers · Encryption and watermarking · Asynchronous and parallel conversion requests · Screenshot and Open Graph image generation · Amazon S3 delivery options | 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, ticket, docs | email, docs |
Plans
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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