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.
You want the public past of pages nobody captured on purpose, or a citable public URL for something already online. A capture starts existing when it is requested, so nothing here reaches back before today.
The record has to exist on your schedule, in a format you chose, inside storage you control — and be produced by a request your code can repeat and your auditor can read.
What moving looks like: There is nothing to migrate, because nothing you have is in an export: point requests at the URLs that matter, write the artifacts to your own bucket, and re-issue on the schedule the record needs.
curl -G https://api.pagecapture.dev/v1/take \
-H "X-Access-Key: $PAGECAPTURE_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "url=https://example.com/pricing" \
-d "format=pdf" \
-d "full_page=true" \
-d "metadata_page_title=true" \
-d "metadata_http_response_status_code=true" \
-d "response_type=json" \
-o record.jsonThoughtful essentials, made in small batches from natural materials.
A capture exists because a request was made. Nothing reaches back to a page as it was before you started, and no page you did not name gets captured.
The artifact goes to your bucket with `store`, under a retention policy you set. It does not depend on us staying online to keep existing.
Page title, final URL and the response status code come back alongside the artifact, so the record says what the server actually answered.
The same parameters describe the same capture, so a monthly record is a scheduled request rather than someone remembering to click.
Every number in this table is computed from the published plans — failures and organization-scoped cache hits are removed before the plan is chosen, because they are not billable.
| Scenario | Billable successes | Smallest included plan | Published monthly price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 archived pages per month | 8,820 | Growth | $47.00 |
Assumes 10% cache hits and 2% failures. Change either assumption and the billable count changes with it — that is the point of charging for success.
These figures are quoted from each vendor's own pricing page, with the date we last checked it. They are not converted to our billing unit, because they do not measure the same thing.
A public web archive built mostly from its own crawls, with a one-off Save Page Now for a page it has not reached.
Published by the vendor, checked 2026-08-26.
archive.orgWayback Machine is trademarked by their respective owners and mentioned only to describe the comparison people are searching for. No affiliation is claimed.
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