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Shotkiln pricing: web scraping API, GET /v1/pdf

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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from Shotkiln scores 60.0 out of 100. Shotkiln ranks 91st of 143 providers.This plan is free. We rank 2,645 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.999 per 1,000 pages or less. See how many web scraping API plans are free.LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price.WebScraping.AI, Scrappey and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Shotkiln plan for that many pages. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Shotkiln's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/pdf one of Shotkiln's 2 calls
API: Web scraping API Shotkiln's only API

About this item

  • Live. Shotkiln fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • Returns none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused renders do not roll over, the quota resets on the 1st of the month (UTC).
  • One call. You send url or html to GET /v1/pdf. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: anyone, with no email and no card. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Shotkiln: web scraping API alternatives

Shotkiln alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

The table starts with Shotkiln's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Shotkiln's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Shotkiln, $49 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/pdfGoLogin, $49 monthlyScrapingAnt, $49 monthly, Startup, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxyStealthASF, $49 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/scrape, JavaScript renderingScrapingBee, $49 monthly, Freelance, GET /api/v1/, HTML API
$ per 1,000 pages$0.98$0.98$0.98$0.98$0.98
Completeness0%29%29%14%57%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$49$49$49$49$49
Enough for50,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with a work email: the API key comes within one business dayanyone at least 18 years old, or with a parent's permissionanyoneany natural person aged at least 18 years old with full and complete legal capacity acting in the scope of their professional activity or being the legal representative of a legal entity empowered to enter into legally binding commitments

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. shotkiln.com/docs
  2. shotkiln.com/html-to-pdf-api
  3. shotkiln.com/openapi.json
  4. shotkiln.com/pricing
  5. shotkiln.com/screenshot-api
  6. shotkiln.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot, not in the answer
  • Markdown, not in the answer
  • HTML, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free1 hour
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Screenshot · OG image
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAn HTML to PDF API turns HTML or a URL into a PDF. Shotkiln prints it in a real browser, so CSS grid, web fonts and JavaScript charts come out the way they look on screen.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"You must not use the Service to: capture or distribute content you have no right to, render phishing, malware, credential-harvesting or scam pages (except for genuine, authorised security research agreed with us in advance), access non-public systems or attempt to bypass our network protections, circumvent paywalls, access controls or rate limits of third-party sites, process content that is illegal, including child sexual abuse material, or resell raw access without our written consent.", "You keep all rights to the content you submit and the outputs."
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresunused renders do not roll over, the quota resets on the 1st of the month (UTC)
Rate limit
Per day30
Per second0.083
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median8.23 s
The call
You sendone of url or html. Optional: format, landscape, print_background, margin, margin_top, margin_right, margin_bottom, margin_left, delay, cache_ttl
MethodGET
Path/v1/pdf
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, with no email and no card
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

PDF file, render time, cache status, HTTP status code, watermark

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