Compare Ironfang Render with Microlink

Built for teams rendering thousands of pages a month, not tens of thousands: a free allowance every month, then Pay as you go for the usage past it, within a monthly limit you set. Failed renders are not charged.

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500 free screenshots each month
No card required
Usage limits you choose

Free every month: 500 screenshots
Past the free allowance: Pay as you go
Infrastructure: Operated in the UK

Pricing

Compare published monthly pricing

Ironfang Render prices each kind of work on its own meter: a free allowance every month, then graduated rates for the usage past it. Compare its screenshot and PDF rates with Microlink's published monthly plans.

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.

Published reference

Microlink plans

Checked 13 October 2026

Plan	Monthly price	Monthly allowance	Cost per 1,000
Pro	$49	46,000	$1.07

Monthly prices as published, in USD, on monthly billing and before any tax the provider adds. Where they are set beside Ironfang Render's, they are converted at a reference rate of £1 ≈ $1.36, checked 25 August 2026; your payment provider's rate may differ. The benchmark takes each screenshot as one render or request on the plan. Ironfang Render bills in GBP, and its prices exclude VAT.

Capabilities

Shared production capabilities

Both APIs cover the same core rendering work:

Screenshots of any public URL

PDF rendering from a page

Capture of a single element rather than the whole page

Ad and cookie-banner blocking

Cached repeats served without re-rendering

Short video output from a page

Review every verified field in the full feature comparison.

Platform fit

Choose around the requirements that matter

Price is one part of the decision. Check the delivery model and specialist controls your application depends on.

Why teams switch to Ironfang Render

One key covers screenshots, PDFs, generated images, QR codes and clips, each at its own rate - and the monthly usage limit you set bounds what paid work can cost.

One API, one account and one monthly invoice for screenshots, PDFs, generated images, QR codes and clips.
A monthly usage limit you choose, and cache hits and idempotent replays are never charged. Paid work that would pass the limit is refused before it starts.
A UK company billing in GBP, with support that reaches the engineers who run the service.

What Microlink has that we don't

Some Microlink capabilities have no Ironfang Render equivalent. Check these against your workload before you move:

A larger free tier: 25 requests a day, about 750 over a month, against 500 free screenshots a month here
One paid tier that includes 46,000 requests, which costs less than the same number of screenshots at Ironfang Render's rates
Automatic proxy resolution, which Ironfang Render does not offer
Configurable cache TTL and custom cache keys
S3-like storage integration on their enterprise plan

Less to operate. More to ship.

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Microlink pricing and option names were checked against the provider's published documentation on 13 October 2026. They may change. If any information is out of date, contact us and we will correct it.