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There is no standard free quota across screenshot APIs. Of the providers compared here, ScreenshotAPI.to publishes 200 free screenshots a month, ScreenshotOne and WebsiteScreenshotAPI publish 100 each, and Urlbox says it does not offer a free plan. ScreenshotNeo also offers 1,000 screenshots a month free without a card. These are provider-published terms, not a guarantee of identical access, billing or payment conditions in India; verify the current terms before choosing.

Free screenshot API quotas at a glance

Provider Published free allowance Quota rules established by its official source India checkout total established?
ScreenshotNeo 1,000 screenshots per month, no card required Only clean shots are billed; bot checks/CAPTCHAs, blank pages, timeouts, failed loads and cache hits cost nothing. Every response includes X-Page-Verdict and X-Billed headers. No India-specific checkout total established.
ScreenshotAPI.to 200 free screenshots per month per account The free allowance resets on the first of the month. When the plan allowance and purchased credits are exhausted, account API requests return HTTP 402 without processing. Official documentation. No.
ScreenshotOne Up to 100 screenshots per month Failed HTTP, browser or network renders are not counted. A response served from cache does not count; a cache miss that triggers a rerender may count. Pricing and plans. No.
WebsiteScreenshotAPI 100 screenshots per month PNG, JPG and WebP each cost one unit per render; PDF costs two units. This is stated in its getting-started documentation; confirm the current terms because the page may be older than the other reviewed pages. No.
Urlbox No free plan, according to its pricing FAQ Its official pricing page describes paid tiers and over-quota behavior; a trial should not be treated as a recurring monthly free allowance. No.

The figures are vendors’ published product terms, not an independently measured market statistic. They do not establish equal features, output quality, speed or reliability across services.

Which free tier is best for an Indian developer?

For the largest stated monthly quota among the providers covered here, ScreenshotNeo comes first: it publishes 1,000 free screenshots a month with no card, and says failed or unusable captures and cache hits are not billed. ScreenshotAPI.to is the next-highest documented account allowance in this comparison at 200 a month. The right choice still depends on which output formats and capture options your application needs, how each provider counts requests, and what happens when you reach the limit.

India-specific checkout prices, taxes, currency conversion, payment fees and payment-method availability are not established by the provider pages compared here. Do not infer an INR total from a published plan price alone; check the provider’s checkout for the account and payment method you intend to use.

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How to compare quotas before building on one

Estimate successful captures and leave room for retries

Count the successful renders your application expects in a typical month, then add headroom for retries, changed URLs or options, and uncached renders. A quota number is useful only if you also know which requests consume it. For example, ScreenshotOne states that failed HTTP, browser and network renders do not count, while a cache miss that causes a rerender may count.

Check your actual output needs

Test the exact format and capture options the application requires. The WebsiteScreenshotAPI documentation assigns two units to a PDF render and one to PNG, JPG or WebP, so its headline screenshot count does not equal the same number of PDF outputs. Do not assume that another provider uses the same accounting.

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Know the reset and exhaustion behavior

ScreenshotAPI.to documents a first-of-month reset for its free account allowance and HTTP 402 when the allowance and purchased credits are exhausted. Its documentation also describes a separate keyless public endpoint limited to 8 requests per minute, with tighter caps and no PDF support; that endpoint is not the same as the account quota. Check your implementation against the account API rather than treating the keyless limit as an account-plan rule.

Confirm payment terms from India

Before moving to a paid plan, verify the checkout currency, applicable taxes or fees, supported payment method and final amount for your account. The reviewed official pages do not confirm those India-specific details for any provider in this comparison.

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Handle quota exhaustion in your application

A free allowance is not a reliability strategy if a quota response breaks a user-facing workflow. For ScreenshotAPI.to, detect HTTP 402 and decide whether to queue the capture until the allowance resets, ask an operator to add credits or change plans, or return a controlled error to the caller. Its documentation describes a reset timestamp for the account API; use the response details and current documentation when implementing recovery.

For any provider, log status and billing information where available, distinguish quota errors from timeouts or invalid URLs, and avoid retrying a request indefinitely when the account has no remaining allowance. Set a monthly usage alert or an internal cap below the provider’s published limit if unexpected traffic could exhaust it.

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ScreenshotNeo is a screenshot API and MCP server. Its capture workflow can accept cookie or consent banners like a visitor and remove more than 60 known consent platforms, newsletter popups and chat widgets before the shot; each step can be turned off. Bot checks/CAPTCHAs, blank pages, timeouts, failed loads and cache hits are not billed, and each response identifies the page verdict and billing result in X-Page-Verdict and X-Billed headers. Its MCP server exposes take_screenshot, get_page_info and capture_pdf for Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients. The free plan includes 1,000 shots a month without a card; paid plans start at $5 for 3,000 shots.

One GET request can return an image or PDF. For example, this cURL request saves a WebP screenshot of Stripe:

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curl -G "https://api.screenshotneo.com/v1/shot" -d access_key=YOUR_API_KEY --data-urlencode url=https://stripe.com -o shot.webp

See the ScreenshotNeo API documentation for parameters and response details. Sign up for 1,000 free screenshots a month with no card.

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  • Powerful Pass-Through Charging: Supports up to 85W pass-through charging so you can power up your laptop while you use the hub. Note: Pass-through charging requires a charger (not included). Note: To achieve full power for iPad, we recommend using a 45W wall charger.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Does ScreenshotAPI.to’s keyless endpoint use the same quota as its free account plan?

No. Its documented keyless public endpoint has a separate 8-requests-per-minute limit, tighter caps and no PDF support; the account allowance is a distinct offering.

Does a free screenshot quota tell me what I will pay in India after it runs out?

No. The provider pages compared here do not establish an Indian checkout total, including currency conversion, taxes, fees or payment availability. Confirm the final amount and accepted payment method with the provider.

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