Self-hosted screenshot API. Unlimited renders. Pay once.
Developers rent API docs, monitoring, secrets and webhook plumbing by the month for side projects that earn nothing yet. Self-hosted pay-once utilities cost less than one month of the SaaS they replace.
The tool this job usually means renting is Urlbox, at $19/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. Snapfleet does the job for a one-time $99 — running on infrastructure you control.
GET /api/v1/screenshot?url=... returns PNG, JPG or PDF — viewport, full-page, delay, wait conditions, dark-mode emulation, JPEG quality and retina scale.
For developers, one endpoint, every option pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
Pass a CSS selector and get just that element — perfect for og-images and social cards.
For developers, element clipping pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
Named keys with per-key token-bucket rate limits and daily quotas, usage counters, revoke/regenerate.
For developers, API keys built in pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
One-time $99 for the packaged 1-click Windows installer with auto-updates — no terminal, no Docker knowledge needed.
Desktop app, npm start on a VPS, or docker compose up (the image ships Chromium preinstalled). Create an API key in the UI.
One GET request returns the PNG. Use the playground to dial in parameters and copy the exact curl command.
Snapfleet is $99, once. Urlbox at $19/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. Just over 5 months of Urlbox pays for Snapfleet outright — $228/yr saved, unlimited renders forever.
Just over 5 months of Urlbox pays for Snapfleet outright — $228/yr saved, unlimited renders forever. Snapfleet costs $99 once; Urlbox charges $19/mo — about $228 a year. For developers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/snapfleet-mvp, always. $99 buys the 1-click installer and updates. From source it's npm i && npm start (heads-up: Puppeteer downloads ~170MB of Chromium on first install).
Urlbox runs a global render fleet with retries and edge caching — for millions of renders a month at five nines, they earn their fee. Snapfleet is one pooled Chromium on your box with queueing, timeouts and crash recovery — for og-images, link previews, PDFs and internal tooling, that's honestly all you need.