What we cost against what they cost, with both sources shown
Our column is calculated from the same plan table the API bills against. Their column is quoted from their own pricing page, one source and one date per cell — and when a cell goes past 90 days without a human re-checking it, the page stops publishing the number and links to the source instead.
Alternative to a specific vendor
One page per vendor, priced at the volume of someone evaluating a switch. Each one states that we are not affiliated, and each one names what we do not have yet.
PageCapture is an independent implementation of the same core job: turn a webpage into a production-ready artifact. Compare the parts your integration depends on before moving traffic.
If the job is an artifact inside a product you ship, compare the parts your integration depends on: render options, delivery, error codes and what a failed capture costs. Where Urlbox is the safer answer — evidence and compliance work — this page says so instead of arguing.
ApiFlash competes on being simple and inexpensive, and at some volumes it is cheaper than we are. That is a fact about the tables, not an argument we can talk around — so it is on this page rather than in a footnote.
One archives the web on its own schedule and lets everyone read it. The other captures the URLs you name, when you say, into a file you own. Most people searching for this want the first one.
Browserless rents you a browser and lets you drive it. We do not: we take a request and return a file. If your workflow needs arbitrary interaction, session state or a CDP connection, they are the right tool and this page will say so.
Both products cover capture plus extraction at an accessible price. The part worth comparing carefully is what counts as a billable unit, because that is the number that shows up twelve invoices from now.
Microlink turns a URL into data for apps and agents, and does it well. The comparison worth making is what the same call returns, what it costs when the page fails, and how an agent is expected to hold it.
Cost of a workload
The same job at three volumes, with cache hits and failures in the scenario — because those are the lines where billing on successful, non-cached captures actually shows up.
The unit that decides your bill is a successful, non-cached capture. Everything else — retries you did not ask for, timeouts, a page that answered 500 — costs nothing here, so the table below is smaller than the request count you send.
A forty-page report and a one-page receipt cost the same credit. Pricing follows the document you asked for, not the paper it would take to print it.
Container minutes are easy to price and rarely the reason teams stop self-hosting. The bill that ends the experiment is the one paid in attention: crashed browsers, pinned versions, memory ceilings and the page that only breaks in production.
Every vendor name here is a trademark of its owner.
We are not affiliated with any of them, and we only cite what they publish themselves. The fastest way to settle a comparison is to run the same page through both — 100 successful captures a month, no card.
Get an API key