Compare Ironfang Render with Urlbox

Ship the same screenshot, PDF and image workloads on usage pricing: a free allowance every month on every account, then Pay as you go within a monthly limit you set.

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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 Urlbox'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

Urlbox plans

Checked 13 October 2026

Plan	Monthly price	Monthly allowance	Cost per 1,000
Lo-Fi	$19	2,000	$9.50 per 1,000
Hi-Fi	$49	5,000	$9.80 per 1,000
Ultra	$99	15,000	$6.60 per 1,000

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 support the following common production requirements:

URL or raw HTML input with PNG, JPEG or WebP output

Full page, element, region and viewport captures

Retina output, dark mode, transparent background

Block ads, then hide cookie banners and selected elements

Headers, cookies and authorization for pages behind a login

Wait for a selector or for network idle

PDFs with paper sizes, margins, headers and footers

Signed render URLs, following the pattern used by Urlbox render links

Scrolling to load lazy content, failing a render on status or selector, and Markdown output

Asynchronous renders with webhooks and delivery to S3-compatible storage

Review every verified field in the full feature comparison.

Migration

Map your existing parameters

Many common request parameters have direct equivalents. This table maps Urlbox's published option names to Ironfang Render fields:

Urlbox	Ironfang Render	Notes
`width / height`	`width / height`
`retina`	`device_scale_factor: 2`
`full_page`	`full_page`
`hide_cookie_banners`	`block_cookie_banners`	Hides banners without recording consent
`click_accept`	`not offered`	Ironfang Render does not record consent automatically
`block_ads`	`block_ads`
`hide_selector`	`hide_selectors`	takes a list
`wait_for`	`wait_for_selector`
`wait_until: domloaded / loaded / mostrequestsfinished / requestsfinished`	`wait_until: domcontentloaded / load / networkidle`
`delay`	`delay_ms`
`header / cookie`	`headers / cookies`	objects rather than repeated strings
`authorization`	`authorization`
`user_agent`	`user_agent`

Send a JSON body to POST https://api.ironfang.com/render/v1/screenshot and use your API key as a bearer token.

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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 Urlbox has that we don't

Ironfang Render keeps its API focused, so a few Urlbox specialisms have no equivalent here. Check these against your workload before you move:

Proxy routing, stealth mode and per-country rendering
Direct delivery to Azure storage (S3-compatible buckets are covered)
The retry engine with per-condition retry rules

Less to operate. More to ship.

Test Ironfang Render with your existing workflow

Create a free account with 500 screenshots free each month and no card required. Use the mapping above to translate your current request.

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Urlbox 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.