# Shotkiln, free, GET /v1/pdf: Web scraping API

> An 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.

Shotkiln's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Shotkiln's docs list none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/free-get-v1-pdf
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://shotkiln.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://shotkiln.com/v1/pdf`
- API key: with the plan, on https://shotkiln.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://shotkiln.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#pdf
- Sold by: Shotkiln (https://shotkiln.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 hour
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Screenshot · OG image

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no 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 get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: unused renders do not roll over, the quota resets on the 1st of the month (UTC)

## Rate limit

- Per day: 30
- Per second: 0.083
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 8.23 s

## The call

- You send: one of url or html. Optional: format, landscape, print_background, margin, margin_top, margin_right, margin_bottom, margin_left, delay, cache_ttl
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/pdf

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, 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

## Shotkiln's plans (4)

- [Shotkiln, free, GET /v1/pdf](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/free-get-v1-pdf/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Shotkiln, $9 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/pdf](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/9-monthly-starter-get-v1-pdf/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Shotkiln, $19 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/pdf](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/19-monthly-pro-get-v1-pdf/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Shotkiln, $49 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/pdf](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/49-monthly-scale-get-v1-pdf/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Shotkiln's calls (2)

- `GET /v1/pdf`: [Shotkiln, free, GET /v1/pdf](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/free-get-v1-pdf/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/screenshot`: [Shotkiln, free, GET /v1/screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/free-get-v1-screenshot/llms.txt)

## Shotkiln's APIs (1)

- [Shotkiln: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1/pdf](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/shotkiln/free-get-v1-pdf/llms.txt)

## Shotkiln: web scraping API alternatives

- [GoLogin, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gologin/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScrapingAnt, $49 monthly, Startup, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingant/49-monthly-startup-get-v2-extended-extended-json-headless-browser-js-rendering-standard-datacenter-proxy/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [StealthASF, $49 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/scrape, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stealthasf/49-monthly-pro-post-v1-scrape-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [ScrapingBee, $49 monthly, Freelance, GET /api/v1/, HTML API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbee/49-monthly-freelance-get-api-v1-html-api/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 57% complete, live

## 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.

- https://shotkiln.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotkiln.com/html-to-pdf-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotkiln.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotkiln.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotkiln.com/screenshot-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://shotkiln.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing