ScreenshotBuddy vs ScreenshotOne
ScreenshotOne facts checked against their public site on August 6, 2026.
ScreenshotOne is the better product if the capture itself is the hard part of your problem. Their options reference is unusually deep, they output eleven formats including gif, tiff, avif, heif, html and markdown, they record video up to thirty seconds, they ship seven language SDKs and list twenty-four integrations, and their quota rules are genuinely customer-friendly: failed renders and cache hits do not count, overage is priced per screenshot at every tier instead of forcing an upgrade, and there is a thirty day refund described as no questions asked. ScreenshotBuddy is the better fit if you want the same screenshot and PDF work for less money at the volumes most projects run, want no feature sitting behind a higher tier, want signed URLs and batch renders on every plan, and want an AI agent to reach the API over MCP with setup written for your specific client. If you need video, exotic output formats, delivery into your own S3 bucket, or an SDK in Go, Java, Ruby, Python or .NET, ScreenshotOne is the honest recommendation and the rest of this page will not change that.
What ScreenshotOne does better
The option surface is the clearest gap. Their documented parameters cover device presets with a device scale factor up to five, blocking of cookie banners, ads, chats and trackers, blocking by request and resource type, full page capture with two algorithms and slicing controls, per-side PDF margins with paper formats from a0 to a6, cache keys and cache lifetimes, and delivery to an S3-compatible bucket with a storage class and ACL. There is even a vision passthrough that takes your own OpenAI key and a prompt. We publish a fraction of that, and none of the blocking, device emulation, geolocation or storage options exist here at all.
Video is the capability we simply do not have. They record mp4, mov, avi, webm and gif, from one to thirty seconds, with a scroll scenario and aspect ratio control, and most regular screenshot options still apply to it. Their eleven output formats also include html and markdown, which makes their API usable as a light extraction layer as well as a renderer.
Their quota accounting deserves credit specifically. Screenshots that fail with an HTTP, browser or network error are not counted, and neither are cache hits, with the published caveat that a CDN cache miss can cause a re-render that does count. We are stricter on one of those points: a page that answers a 404 or a 500 still renders here, and a rendered error page still costs a credit, which our screenshot documentation says outright. They also give more requests per minute than we do at every paid tier, and their reach is real rather than claimed: seven official SDKs against our two reference clients, plus integrations with Make, n8n, Zapier, Airtable, Google Sheets, Bubble and others. They publish 99.924% uptime over thirty days, 7.4 million screenshots rendered and 4,000 active developers. We publish none of those numbers.
Where we think we are the better choice
Price at the volumes most projects run. At 2,000 screenshots a month their Basic plan is $17 and our Essential plan is $9. At 10,000 theirs is $79 and ours is $29. At 50,000 theirs is $259 and ours is $99. That holds at all three paid steps, and it is the same comparison in per-screenshot terms further down this page. Our free plan is 200 renders a month with no card, against their 100 a month.
Nothing is gated between our paid plans. Essential, Business and Enterprise are the same API, and the plans differ only in how many renders you get and how many requests per minute you may make. On their pricing page, IP location selection, scrolling screenshots and video generation start at Growth, and GPU rendering and priority support start at Scale. A buyer who wants video pays at least $79 a month for it whether or not they need ten thousand screenshots.
Signed URLs and batch renders are included on every plan here, the free one included. They document signed links and bulk screenshots too, and their pricing page does not list either as tier-gated, so this is a difference of degree rather than of kind. What we can say precisely is that our signing scheme is published in full, with reference implementations in PHP and JavaScript.
The AI agent surface is where the distance is largest. Our MCP server is documented with per-client setup for Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, names the three tools it exposes, and authenticates with the same bearer token a REST call sends, with no OAuth step. We publish an agent skill at a well-known path, an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt, and a markdown twin of every documentation page. ScreenshotOne has an MCP server presented as official with a link to GitHub, and a dedicated landing page for agents, but that MCP page lists neither installation steps nor supported clients nor the tools the server exposes, and their llms.txt returns a 404 at the conventional path. Agent Skills appears on their integrations index without a page behind it that we could verify. Their agent story is real but thin on the details an agent actually needs.
Pricing, side by side
Our figures come from our own plan configuration. Theirs are from their pricing page on the date above, and prices move.
| ScreenshotBuddy plan | Price | Renders | Per minute | Each | ScreenshotOne plan | Price | Renders | Per minute | Each |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 200 a month | 20 | Free | Free trial | $0 | 100 a month | Not published | Free |
| Essential | $9 | 2,000 a month | 20 | $0.0045 | Basic | $17 | 2,000 a month | 40 | $0.0085 |
| Business | $29 | 10,000 a month | 40 | $0.0029 | Growth | $79 | 10,000 a month | 80 | $0.0079 |
| Enterprise | $99 | 50,000 a month | 100 | $0.0020 | Scale | $259 | 50,000 a month | 150 | $0.0052 |
| Above 50,000 | Talk to us | None published | A request link on the pricing page | ||||||
The per-screenshot figures are the monthly price divided by the included volume, ours computed from the plan configuration. Two things that table does not show. Their rate limits are higher than ours at every paid tier, which matters if your renders arrive in bursts rather than evenly. And they publish an overage price of $0.009, $0.006 and $0.004 per extra screenshot, so passing your allowance costs money rather than forcing a plan change. Their annual option is labelled as two months free, though the annual amounts are not shown as numbers on the page.
Features, side by side
| Capability | ScreenshotBuddy | ScreenshotOne |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 200 renders a month, no card | 100 a month, no card, all features |
| Output formats | png, jpeg, webp, and pdf | Eleven, including gif, jp2, tiff, avif, heif, html and markdown |
| Paper format, orientation, margins and scale | Paper format, orientation, margins, print background, fit to one page | |
| Video capture | No | mp4, mov, avi, webm and gif, up to 30 seconds, from Growth |
| Blocking cookie banners, ads and chats | No | Yes, plus blocking by request and resource type |
| Device emulation and geolocation | Viewport size and scale only | Device presets, touch and mobile flags, IP location from Growth |
| Delivery to your own storage | No, the response body, the cache or a signed URL | Yes, S3-compatible with bucket, path, class and ACL |
| Vision passthrough | No | Yes, with your own OpenAI key and a prompt |
| Signed render links | Yes, on every plan, scheme published in full | Yes, documented, not listed as tier-gated |
| Batch and async renders | Yes, with signed webhooks, on every plan | Yes, bulk screenshots with async and webhooks |
| Features gated by tier | None, every paid plan is the whole API | Scrolling, video and IP location from Growth, GPU rendering from Scale |
| Failed renders and cache hits | Cache hits free, failures refunded, a rendered error page is billed | Neither counts, with a published caveat about CDN cache misses |
| MCP server | Yes, per-client setup and three named tools | Yes, official, without setup steps or a tool list |
| llms.txt and markdown docs | llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a markdown twin of every page | No llms.txt at the conventional path |
| Official SDKs | PHP and JavaScript reference clients, plus OpenAPI and Postman | Go, Java, Ruby, Python, C#, PHP and JavaScript |
| No-code integrations | None published | 24 listed, including Make, n8n, Zapier, Airtable and Bubble |
What we do not have
Plainly, so you do not find out later. We do not capture video or animation in any format. Our output is png, jpeg, webp and PDF, so gif, tiff, avif, heif, jp2, html and markdown are all things you would have to go elsewhere for. We cannot deliver a render into your own S3 bucket; you get the response body, the cached copy or a signed URL, and where it goes after that is your code's problem. We block no ads, no cookie banners and no chat widgets, we emulate no devices and we cannot render from a chosen country, so a consent wall that covers the page will be in your screenshot. We have no vision passthrough. We ship two copy-in reference clients where they ship seven packaged SDKs, and we list no no-code integrations at all, so Zapier, Make and Airtable users are better served there. Our per-minute rate limits are lower than theirs at every paid tier.
None of that is on a roadmap we are willing to promise you here. If any of it is what you came for, ScreenshotOne is the better buy and we would rather you found that out on this page than after paying us.
Try it yourself
The free plan is the fastest way to settle this. It is 200 renders a month with no card, and it is the same API the paid plans are.
Read the pricing, skim the documentation, or create an account and render something.
Everything above about ScreenshotOne was read from their public site on August 6, 2026, and their product moves. If something here is out of date or unfair, please tell us and we will correct it.