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screen2api vs ScreenshotOne
A polished server-side screenshot API with thoughtful options — ad blocking, cookie-banner hiding, caching — and a transparent per-screenshot overage model.
Where ScreenshotOne is the better choice
Genuinely — if any of these is your requirement, use them.
- A real free tier (100 screenshots a month, no card) and clearly published per-unit overage pricing.
- Rendering options that clean up arbitrary pages: block ads, hide cookie banners, wait for network idle.
- Captures any public URL without touching the target site's code.
- You are screenshotting pages you do not control, or generating link previews and thumbnails.
- Captures happen without a user present — cron jobs, pipelines, monitoring.
Where screen2api differs
The logged-in screen is the one that matters in-app
Their headless browser sees what an anonymous visitor sees. An export button inside your product needs the opposite: this user's account, this user's data, the exact rendered state on their screen. The SDK captures in the user's browser, so authenticated state is simply what is there — no session sharing, no re-rendering your app server-side.
Users are part of the capture here
Annotation, captions and pixel-destroying redaction happen before upload, in the browser, with the user in control of what is sent. A URL-rendering API has no equivalent because there is no user in its loop.
At in-app volumes the models diverge
At 100,000 captures a month, their published Scale plan plus overage comes to roughly $459; screen2api's Business plan is $199 for the same count. Below a few hundred captures a month their free tier is more generous than the arithmetic suggests — both facts belong in the comparison.
Published pricing, side by side
ScreenshotOne's figures read from their pricing page on 23 August 2026. They may have changed since — check before deciding.
ScreenshotOne
- Free · 100 screenshots/mo$0
- Basic · 2,000 screenshots, then $0.009 each$17/mo
- Growth · 10,000 screenshots, then $0.006 each$79/mo
- Scale · 50,000 screenshots, then $0.004 each$259/mo
screen2api
- Free · 500 captures/mo$0
- Pro · 25,000 captures/mo$49/mo
- Business · 100,000 captures/mo$199/mo
A capture is one render, however many formats it returns. Full pricing
Try the capture on your own page
The playground runs the real SDK on a real page — no account, and the free tier is 500 captures a month when you're ready.