Screenshot API
The facts below are what Caio Ricciuti publishes about Screenshot API, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Screenshot API's own pricing page, checked 29 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 100 renders / month · 1 snapshot set, daily checks · All formats and options · 1 request / second |
| Starter | $9 a month | 2,000 renders / month · 5 snapshot sets · Hourly schedules · 5 requests / second · $9 / mo |
| Pro | $29 a month | 10,000 renders / month · 20 snapshot sets · Slack delivery · 10 requests / second · $29 / mo |
| Team | $49 a month | 25,000 renders / month · 50 snapshot sets · Deploy checks for every project · 25 requests / second · $49 / mo |
| Business | $149 a month | 100,000 renders / month · 200 snapshot sets · Priority rendering · 50 requests / second · $149 / mo |
The facts
Each one read from Screenshot API's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI clients
- A hosted MCP server connects Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT using one URL and sign-in.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Capture controls
- The API supports full-page capture, custom viewports up to 3840×4320, scale up to 3×, and dark mode.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- GDPRchecked 29 Sep 2026
- Credential scope
- Cookies, headers, and basic-auth credentials are scoped to the target host; headers are not sent to other origins or followed across a redirect to another host.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- cloud, browser extensionchecked 29 Sep 2026
- Image options
- Requests can select PNG, JPEG, or WebP and adjust quality for JPEG and WebP.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The service can send comparison results to Slack and lists Forgejo/GitHub Actions, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Vercel for deploy hooks.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Key features
- 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 Slackchecked 29 Sep 2026
- Notable restriction
- Targets on private networks cannot be captured and must be reachable from the public internet.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- The hosted API captures web pages and returns PNG, JPEG, or WebP images in one request.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Quota handling
- A failed render is not counted against the quota and failures on the service side are automatically refunded.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Security
- Requests to private networks, loopback addresses, and cloud metadata are refused, with the renderer also blocked from that traffic at the network layer.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Support
- email, docschecked 29 Sep 2026
- Support contact
- The site lists [email protected] as its contact address.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Use cases
- The maker lists social cards, visual change monitoring, thumbnails, reports and archiving, design and QA review, and current product documentation as use cases.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Visual comparison
- The compare endpoint can compare a page with another URL or a stored baseline and return changed regions and a diff image.checked 29 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Browser rendering
- Pages are rendered by a real browser engine that supports JavaScript, web fonts, CSS grid, and lazy images.checked 29 Sep 2026
Money
- Free tier
- The free plan includes 100 renders per month without a credit card or trial clock, and quotas reset at the start of each UTC calendar month without rollover.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Spainchecked 29 Sep 2026
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