Screenmint vs Urlbox
Both turn a URL into an image. The practical differences are price at the low end, and that page video and Open Graph cards are included on every Screenmint plan rather than being a higher-tier feature.
| Screenmint | Urlbox | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100 renders/mo, no card | Trial, then paid |
| 2,000 renders/mo | $10 (Starter) | $19 (Lo-Fi) |
| 5,000 renders/mo | $50 (Pro, 20,000 included) | $49 (Hi-Fi) |
| 15,000–20,000 renders/mo | $50 (Pro, 20,000) | $99 (Ultra, 15,000) |
| Page video / scrolling capture | All plans, incl. free | Select plans |
| Open Graph card rendering | Built in | Via screenshot templates |
| Signed URLs (no key in markup) | Yes | Yes |
| Cached renders count against quota | No — repeats are free | See their terms |
Urlbox pricing checked on 19 August 2026 from their public pricing page. Prices change — verify before making a decision, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
Where Urlbox is the better choice
- Urlbox has been around far longer and has the track record to match. If you are shipping something where an outage is expensive, that history is worth paying for.
- They run a much larger fleet. Screenmint is one well-tuned server that saturates at about 2.1 renders/second, which is fine for most integrations but not for bulk crawling.
- Their Business and Enterprise tiers go well beyond anything we offer, including custom limits and contractual support.
- They publish SDKs for several languages. Screenmint is plain REST plus Zapier and Make, and you write the four lines of HTTP yourself.
Try it on the free tier
100 renders a month, no card. Or use the playground with no account at all.