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PixShot – Screenshot and OG Image API
by juanjosegongi·Feb 26, 2026·3 points·1 comment
AI Analysis
●●SolidSolve My ProblemDark Horse
40% cheaper than Urlbox with a real free tier, but screenshot APIs are well-solved.
Strengths
- •Aggressive pricing undercuts incumbents by 40-60% while matching feature parity (WebP, device emulation, OG generation).
- •No serverless architecture eliminates cold starts—persistent Chromium pool on single VPS is a real optimization.
- •Genuine free tier (500/mo) lets developers evaluate without friction, vs. ScreenshotOne's 100/mo.
Weaknesses
- •Screenshot APIs are a crowded, solved category—Urlbox, ScreenshotOne, ApiFlash all do this. Price alone isn't differentiation.
- •Single VPS scaling story unclear; unclear how it handles traffic spikes or regional latency vs. edge-based competitors.
Category
Target Audience
Web developers, content platforms, and e-commerce sites needing programmatic screenshot and social card generation.
Similar To
Urlbox · ScreenshotOne · ApiFlash
Post Description
I built PixShot — a screenshot and OG image API. You can try it on the homepage without signing up, just type any URL.
I needed screenshots for a side project and balked at the pricing — Urlbox starts at $29/mo for 5K, ScreenshotOne at $79/mo for 10K. So I built my own on a single VPS. Free tier is 500/mo, paid starts at $19/mo.
Stack: Fastify + Playwright + Sharp + BullMQ + Redis, deployed on OVH with Dokploy. No serverless, no cold starts.
I'm based in Colombia where Stripe doesn't work for merchants, so I used Creem.io as a Merchant of Record — not something I expected to spend time on.
Happy to answer questions about the architecture or pricing.
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