Is there a free tier?

Yes, the free tier covers two hundred screenshots per month with no credit card required.

What does it cost at higher volumes?

The page lists Essential at nine dollars per month for two thousand screenshots, Business at twenty nine dollars for ten thousand, and Enterprise at ninety nine dollars for fifty thousand.

Does it generate PDFs as well?

Yes, all paid plans include PDF creation in addition to image screenshots.

How do I call the API?

Developers send a request to the v1 snap endpoint at api.screenshotbuddy.io with the target URL, shown with a PHP and Laravel example on the page.

ScreenshotBuddy: API for generating screenshots and PDFs from URLs

What is ScreenshotBuddy?

ScreenshotBuddy is a developer API that captures screenshots or PDFs of any URL on demand. Developers call a single endpoint, pass a URL, and receive the rendered image or PDF, with strong defaults so the basic case works without configuration.

Why ScreenshotBuddy works

Self hosting a headless browser to generate screenshots is a maintenance tax most small teams should not pay. ScreenshotBuddy turns that into a one endpoint call, so a developer can ship a feature that needs page screenshots in an afternoon without running their own infrastructure.

ScreenshotBuddy features

Single endpoint API. One REST endpoint at api.screenshotbuddy.io captures screenshots or PDFs of any URL so integration takes minutes.
Configurable defaults. Strong default settings work out of the box with optional configuration when developers need specific viewport sizes or formats.
PDF generation. Generates PDFs of any URL in addition to images, useful for invoice rendering and archive snapshots.
Tiered free plan. Free tier with two hundred screenshots per month and no credit card required so developers can prototype before paying.

Who ScreenshotBuddy is for

Indie developers shipping social preview images for blog posts or user generated pages who do not want to run Puppeteer in production.
SaaS teams that need to attach PDF snapshots of a page to internal reports or customer emails without building a rendering service.
Small agencies generating site audit screenshots for many client sites who want a metered API rather than a desktop tool.
Open source maintainers who need automatic dark mode and light mode screenshots in their docs CI.

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