Ten providers, every price checked against the vendor's own public pricing page on 27 July 2026. The number that determines your bill is not resolution or format support. It is how many screenshots you take a month, and every price here is quoted against that one figure.
Pages on your list, multiplied by how often each one is captured, multiplied by thirty. That is the figure every plan in this category is sold against, and it moves faster than people expect: one extra capture a day on a hundred pages is three thousand screenshots a month.
Twenty competitor pages, captured every hour, is 14,400 screenshots a month. Frequency, not list length, is what drives that number.
Five hundred pages, captured once a day, is 15,000 screenshots a month. Almost the same bill as the twenty-page job above, for twenty-five times the list.
Sorted cheapest first at ten thousand screenshots a month. Where a vendor's tier does not land on a round number, the real tier size is noted in the cell rather than interpolated.
| Provider | ≈10K / mo | ≈50K / mo | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| changedetection.io Open source, self-hosted | $0 | $0 | Free forever |
| Screenshotlayer Long-running budget API | $19.99 | $149.99 (75K tier) | 100 / mo |
| PagePixels Capture, schedule, and alert | $24.99 | $99.99 | 25 / mo, no card |
| CaptureKit Credit-based API | $29 | $89 | 100 credits |
| ScreenshotAPI.net Cron scheduling, no stated retention | $29 | $175 (100K tier) | Trial only |
| SnapRender Newest budget entrant | $29 | $79 | 200 / mo, no card |
| ApiFlash Chrome-based rendering API | $35 | $180 (100K tier) | 100 / mo |
| Restpack Screenshot plus HTML and PDF | $39.95 | about $125 | 7-day trial |
| ScreenshotOne Deepest rendering control | $79 | $259 | 100 / mo, card required |
| Urlbox The enterprise veteran | $99 (15K tier) | about $645 | 7-day trial |
Scroll the table sideways for the full rows. Cells marked with a tier size mean the vendor's nearest plan is not 10,000 or 50,000, so the figure is that plan's real price and volume rather than a per-shot estimate. Nothing here is negotiated or annual pricing.
We are only the answer to three of these. The rest go elsewhere, and the reason is stated rather than implied.
Capture on a schedule from every five minutes to once a year, detect text-level change on a selector, and route the alert to Slack, a webhook, or an automation platform. Screenshot APIs in this table do not do the second and third parts, and monitoring platforms charge per page for them.
Build the sequence once and every capture replays it in a real browser session: open the page, type the email and password, click submit, wait for the dashboard to finish loading, dismiss the cookie banner, then capture. Steps can also click links, fill out forms, select from menus, and run your own JavaScript or CSS. Most APIs here offer a single CSS-selector click, which cannot carry you through a sign-in form and a redirect. Multi-step capture is on every plan, including the free one.
Real Locations capture through a proxy network in 150+ countries, US states, and cities, on every plan including free. Geographic capture is an upper-tier feature or an add-on almost everywhere else in this table, and on Hexowatch the choice of server location needs their Business plan.
At fifty thousand they are $79 and $89, so at volume they undercut us. At ten thousand the order reverses. Both are pure renderers: neither SnapRender nor CaptureKit schedules a recurring capture, compares two captures for changes, or signs in on the way to one, all of which are on every PagePixels plan. If you will genuinely never need those, buy on the volume you actually run.
Free, open source, self-hosted, and genuinely good. You pay in server maintenance and setup time instead of subscription, and the browser, the proxies, and the uptime are yours to run. Capturing from 150+ locations or replaying a login sequence is work you would be doing yourself.
The deepest set of rendering options published by anyone: font control, animation freezing, dark-mode emulation, blocking rules. On rendering fidelity alone nobody in this table is ahead of it, and if a specific artefact is what you are chasing, they probably have the flag for it. The trade is the layer above the render: the schedule, the change alert, and the multi-step login are all yours to build and host, where here they are on every plan including free.
The longest track record and published SLAs above their entry plans. If procurement needs a vendor with a decade of enterprise references, that is a real reason and we are not going to argue you out of it. It is still a renderer: nothing in it schedules a capture or tells you the page moved.
Hundreds of pages daily runs into tens of thousands of screenshots a month, and a flat per-page plan is cheaper at that shape. Hexowatch has the widest detector coverage in the segment, though their click-and-login actions start at Pro and their server-location choice at Business, both of which are on our free plan.
Forensic capture with eDiscovery export formats and WORM archiving for FINRA and SEC obligations. We produce dated visual records kept for 48 months, which is a different thing. If a regulator or opposing counsel is the audience, do not buy a screenshot tool.
At ten thousand a month, Screenshotlayer is $19.99, PagePixels is $24.99, and everyone else in the table is $29 or more. At fifty thousand, SnapRender at $79. If you can self-host, changedetection.io is free and is the real floor of the category. Neither Screenshotlayer nor SnapRender includes scheduling with change notification.
At ten thousand a month nothing paid undercuts us, but changedetection.io is free if you host it, and at fifty thousand SnapRender and CaptureKit are cheaper. Both sell captures alone, where we sell captures plus a scheduler, change detection, multi-step browser actions, AI analysis, and delivery integrations, on every plan including free. If you only need captures, that bundle is overhead you are paying for. We would rather say so than lose you in month two.
Pages multiplied by captures per page per day, multiplied by thirty. Twenty pages hourly is 14,400 a month. Five hundred pages daily is 15,000. Once you have that figure, check the rung immediately above it on each vendor's ladder, because several jump from 10,000 to 50,000 with nothing in between. Run the arithmetic before you read any vendor's comparison page, this one included.
Every figure, ours included, was checked against that vendor's own public pricing page on 27 July 2026. Pricing in this category moves, and several of these providers have changed tiers within the last year. If you find a figure that has moved, tell us and we will correct it and re-date the page.
No. The table is sorted by price at ten thousand screenshots a month and our row lands wherever that puts it, rather than being pinned to the top. In the pick-by-job section we name ourselves for three of nine jobs and name a competitor for the other six.
SnapRender offers 200 a month with no card, and we offer 25 with no card. Screenshotlayer, ApiFlash, and CaptureKit offer 100. ScreenshotOne offers 100 but requires a card. Restpack and Urlbox are trial-only. For evaluating a tool with an agent, a no-card free tier matters more than the count.
Very few. Most screenshot APIs offer a CSS-selector click at most, which is not enough to get through a login form. We run a full step list in a real browser session: click links, fill out forms, log in, run custom scripts, then capture. If your target is behind authentication, this is the feature to test first, whichever vendor you evaluate.
Yes. The verification date in the opening paragraph and above the table is the date every figure, ours included, was last checked, and it changes only when we actually recheck. If it looks stale, it is stale, and that is deliberate rather than hidden.