rasterly

The reason to switch

Same 50,000 renders. A tenth of the bill.

The incumbents priced screenshots like an enterprise feature. It's a browser and a disk. Here's the same volume, side by side.

ScreenshotOne

$259/mo

50,000 renders · $5.18 per 1,000

rasterly · Growth

$29/mo

50,000 renders · $0.58 per 1,000 · 89% less

One call, any stack

Copy, paste, ship.

No SDK required — it's a GET. Pass a URL, get bytes back. Full-page, viewport, retina scale and JPEG quality are query params.

# PNG of a page, full height
curl "https://api.rasterly.dev/v1/screenshot?url=https://stripe.com&full_page=true" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: sk_live_..." -o shot.png

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.rasterly.dev/v1/screenshot?url=https://stripe.com&format=pdf",
  { headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.SHOTBOLT_KEY } }
);
await writeFile("page.pdf", Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer()));

import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.rasterly.dev/v1/screenshot",
    params={"url": "https://stripe.com", "format": "jpeg", "scale": 2},
    headers={"X-Api-Key": KEY},
)
open("shot.jpg", "wb").write(r.content)

Pricing

Usage-based. Card, not a sales call.

Every plan is the full API — all formats, full-page, retina, SSRF protection. Pick by volume; upgrade when you outgrow it.

Free

100 renders / mo

for kicking the tyres

All formats
Full-page & retina
Community support

Start free

Starter

$9/mo

10,000 renders

$0.90 / 1,000

Everything in Free
Email support
Overage $1.20/1k

Choose Starter

rasterly vs the incumbents

Same job — a URL in, an image or PDF out. The difference is the invoice.

50,000 renders / month	rasterly	Urlbox	ScreenshotOne	SnapAPI
Monthly price	$29	~$99	$259	$79
Per 1,000	$0.58	~$1.98	$5.18	$1.58
PNG / JPEG / PDF	All three	All three	All three	Screenshots
Full-page & retina	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SSRF-guarded	Yes	Yes	Yes	unstated
Sign up with a card	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Migration	Drop-in URL swap	—	—	—

Competitor prices are public list prices observed August 2026 and are shown for comparison only; check each vendor for current pricing. Urlbox has no exact 50k tier — figure interpolated from its published plans. rasterly is not affiliated with Urlbox, ScreenshotOne or SnapAPI.

Questions

The honest FAQ

How is it so much cheaper?

A screenshot is a headless browser rendering a page and handing back the bytes. We reuse one browser across requests, so a warm render is about a second of CPU — cents, not dollars. The incumbents price on brand, not cost. We pass the real cost through.

Is it really drop-in for Urlbox?

The request is the same shape: a base URL, an url= param, and options like full_page and format. In most codebases you change the hostname and the key. Formats and options map one-to-one for the common cases.

Can someone screenshot my internal servers through it?

No. Every target URL is resolved and checked before we open a page; requests to localhost, *.local, and any address in a private, link-local or cloud-metadata range (like 169.254.169.254) are refused with a 403. This is enforced, not a setting.

What happens when I go over my plan?

You keep rendering at the per-plan overage rate shown above — no hard stop mid-month, no surprise plan bump. You can set a spend cap in the dashboard.

PDF too, or just images?

PDF is a first-class format — pass format=pdf and you get a print-ready A4 with backgrounds. Same endpoint, same price.

A screenshot of any URL, in about a second.

Same 50,000 renders. A tenth of the bill.

What are you overpaying?

Copy, paste, ship.

Usage-based. Card, not a sales call.

rasterly vs the incumbents

The honest FAQ