50,000 screenshots per month
Ironfang Render, Pay as you go
£50.55
Free allowance included, before VAT
ScreenshotOne Scale
$259
~£190.44
73% lowerSave approximately £139.89 per month and £1,678.68 per year
Compare Ironfang Render with ScreenshotOne and Urlbox
The published numbers, side by side: the same core rendering features, with Ironfang Render priced by usage - a free allowance every month, then Pay as you go within a monthly limit you set. The gaps are listed too - in the open, dated, and small.
Start with 500 free screenshots every month, then switch on Pay as you go: see the rates.
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- 500 free screenshots each month
- No card required
- Usage limits you choose
- UK-operated infrastructure
- at the compared 50,000-screenshot workload
- 73% lower
- for 50,000 screenshots a month on Pay as you go, before VAT
- £50.55
- free screenshots every month, no card required
- 500
Pricing
Compare monthly cost by workload
Plan allowances vary between providers, so plan names do not offer a direct comparison. These examples price the same monthly volume of screenshots on both sides: the published price of the competitor plan that covers it, and Ironfang Render's rates for that volume, free allowance included.
15,000 screenshots per month
Ironfang Render, Pay as you go
£19.05
Free allowance included, before VAT
Urlbox Ultra
$99
~£72.79
73% lowerSave approximately £53.74 per month and £644.88 per year
Each band prices only the screenshots inside it, and the rate falls as a month's volume grows. For your own mix of screenshots, PDFs and images, use the calculator.
Ironfang Render rates
Every account has these free allowances each month. With Pay as you go switched on, usage past them is charged at these rates, within the monthly limit you set.
Screenshots
Each screenshot returned or stored.
500 screenshots free each month
| Paid units after the free allowance | Rate per 1,000 |
|---|---|
| First 10,000 | £1.50 |
| Next 90,000 | £0.90 |
| Next 900,000 | £0.65 |
| Above 1,000,000 | £0.45 |
PDFs
Each PDF returned or stored, every page within the page limit included.
100 PDFs free each month
| Paid units after the free allowance | Rate per 1,000 |
|---|---|
| First 10,000 | £1.50 |
| Next 90,000 | £0.70 |
| Next 900,000 | £0.50 |
| Above 1,000,000 | £0.40 |
Every Ironfang Render rate, and a calculator for your own mix, is on the pricing page.
Competitor plans, as published
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Renders | Cost per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ScreenshotOne | Basic | $17 | 2,000 | $8.50 per 1,000 |
| ScreenshotOne | Growth | $79 | 10,000 | $7.90 per 1,000 |
| ScreenshotOne | Scale | $259 | 50,000 | $5.18 per 1,000 |
| Urlbox | Lo-Fi | $19 | 2,000 | $9.50 per 1,000 |
| Urlbox | Hi-Fi | $49 | 5,000 | $9.80 per 1,000 |
| Urlbox | Ultra | $99 | 15,000 | $6.60 per 1,000 |
Ironfang Render bills in GBP, and its prices exclude VAT. Competitor prices are published in USD; the approximate pound figures and the savings use a reference rate of £1 ≈ $1.36, checked 25 August 2026, and your payment provider's rate may differ. The workloads take each screenshot as one render or request on the competitor's plan. Coming from one of them? There are direct pages for ScreenshotOne, Urlbox, Microlink and ApiFlash, with parameter mappings for switching.
Compare core rendering capabilities
This table covers capture formats, page controls, output types, templates and signed URLs across all three providers.
supported by the provider; each rival tick links the page of its documentation that says so, read on 13 October 2026. ? not found in public documentation.
Platform fit
What we deliberately leave out
Ironfang Render does screenshots, PDFs, generated images, QR codes and clips - and deliberately not everything else. The specialist scope some platforms sell is listed here, in the open, so a switcher never hits a wall we failed to mention.
Why teams choose Ironfang Render
A lower bill, bounded in advance
The compared workloads cost 44 to 81% less than the published prices, and the monthly usage limit you set bounds what paid work can cost.
One API for every render
Screenshots, PDFs, generated images, QR codes and clips share one key, one integration and one monthly invoice.
Built and operated in the UK
A UK company running its own infrastructure, billing in GBP, with support that reaches the people who built the platform.
If your workload is screenshots, PDFs, images or clips in production, Ironfang Render does the job on one API - with a bill bounded by the limits you choose.
Less to operate. More to ship.
Test Ironfang Render with your own workload
Create a free account and test Ironfang Render against your own pages and templates. When you need more than the free allowances, switch on Pay as you go and set the monthly limit it works within.
Includes 500 free screenshots each month, with no card required.
Competitor pricing and feature information checked against publicly available documentation on 13 October 2026. Competitor products and prices can change; if you find something out of date here, tell us and we will correct it.