Verified pricing and features for the leading website screenshot APIs — side by side, with sources and dates, including where each competitor is stronger.
Choosing a screenshot API comes down to four questions. This page answers them side by side for Add Screenshots, Urlbox, ScreenshotOne, and ApiFlash, using each vendor's published pricing and documentation.
Last verified 25 August 2026 from each vendor's public pricing page and documentation. Pricing changes — always confirm on the vendor's own site.
| Pricing | Add Screenshots | Urlbox | ScreenshotOne | ApiFlash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100/monthPayment method currently required at signup | 7-day trial onlyNo card; no perpetual free tier | 100 free screenshotsNo card | 100/monthNo card |
| Entry paid plan | $3/mo1,000 included · $3.00 per 1k | $19/mo2,000 renders · $9.50 per 1k | $17/mo2,000 included · $8.50 per 1k | $7/mo1,000 included · $7.00 per 1k |
| ~15,000 / month | $39/mo$2.60 per 1k | $99/moUltra, 15,000 · $6.60 per 1k | $79/moGrowth, 10,000 · $7.90 per 1k | $35/moMedium, 10,000 · $3.50 per 1k |
| ~100,000 / month | $188/mo$1.88 per 1k · self-serve to 1.5M/mo | $498/moBusiness: $495 + $3 per extra 1k | $259/moScale, 50,000 + $4 per extra 1k | $180/mo100,000 · $1.80 per 1k |
| Overage handling | Per screenshot: $0.01 (Free) down to $0.0016 at top tiers; service never cut off | No per-unit overage; auto-upgrade to next tier | $9 down to $4 per extra 1,000 by plan | Not published |
| Capability | Add Screenshots | Urlbox | ScreenshotOne | ApiFlash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery to your own storage | Every plan, including FreeS3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, R2, FTP/SFTP, webhooks | Higher tiers onlyAmazon S3 from Hi-Fi ($49+); any S3-compatible from Ultra ($99+) | All paid plansS3-compatible upload | All plansS3 export |
| Full-page screenshots | Every plan | Hi-Fi ($49) and above | All plans | All plans |
| Scheduling & CRON built in | Hourly, daily, CRON | None built inTheir guide recommends scheduling via Zapier | Via Zapier, Make, n8n | Manual or Zapier |
| Visual change detection | Integrated diffs and alerts | Yes — core to its positioning | Not a core feature | Not available |
| Concurrency | No caps on any planDedicated servers, no throttling | Render accounting rules1 render per 30s of processing / per 5MB | 40–150 requests/min by plan | Limits by plan |
| Capture regions | US, Europe, Australia / Asia PacificAutomatic geo-failover | US & EU infrastructure200+ proxy locations (proxies Ultra+) | Not prominently published | EU & US |
| Screenshot privacy | Never stored by usDirect-to-your-storage delivery | Zero-retention options | Cached on their infrastructure by default | Hosted URLs by default |
| Compliance certifications | None yetSecurity practices published | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR99.99% SLA | GDPR/DPA documentation | Not published |
| In production since | July 2020Single-customer peak: 2,785,861 screenshots in one month | 201213 years, 800M+ renders | Not published | Not published |
The price difference gets the attention, but the packaging difference is just as real: features that competitors gate behind higher tiers — or don't build at all — are standard here.
Hourly, daily, or full CRON schedules run inside the platform. No Zapier subscription required — Urlbox's own guide points customers to Zapier for scheduling.
S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, R2, and FTP delivery are included on every plan, even Free. Urlbox reserves S3 for its $49+ plans.
Visual change detection, data monitoring, and HTML to JSON extraction are built in — the same API that captures pages can watch them and return structured data.
Dedicated capture servers in the US, Europe, and Australia, with automatic failover between them on every request.
Choose Urlbox if you need evidence-grade captures for legal or compliance work and a SOC 2 Type II vendor — and its premium of roughly three times the per-screenshot rate fits your budget. Choose ScreenshotOne if cookie-banner and ad removal on messy consumer sites is your single hardest problem. Choose ApiFlash if you want a simple, low-cost API and only ever need EU or US capture with S3 delivery.
Choose Add Screenshots for the most cost-effective published pricing at every volume — with everything included on every plan: built-in scheduling, change detection, data monitoring with HTML-to-JSON extraction, full-page capture, and delivery straight into storage you own, even on the Free tier. Add three capture continents with automatic geo-failover and no concurrency caps, and the fair price stops looking like a trade-off. See the deeper Urlbox comparison, our reliability architecture, and full pricing.
Start with 100 free captures every month, or run a capture right now on the home page demo — no signup needed.