Comparison

Webshotter vs DIY Puppeteer

Everybody starts here, and for a low volume it is genuinely the right answer. What changes the maths is not the screenshot — it is everything around it.

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Where we win

Cold starts, gone

Browsers stay up with a pool of warm pages. A warm render is around 460ms; a Lambda cold start is measured in seconds.

The font rabbit hole

Emoji, CJK, and the web fonts a page loads for itself. This is where most DIY screenshot services quietly render the wrong thing forever.

Isolation you did not have to think about

Every render gets its own browser context, destroyed afterwards, so no cookie or storage from one page reaches the next.

SSRF refusals

Private, loopback and metadata addresses are refused — including public hostnames that resolve to them, and redirects into them. A screenshot service that skips this is an internal-network proxy for anyone who can call it.

Where DIY Puppeteer wins

Cost at very low volume

A hundred screenshots a month on a box you already pay for is free.

Total control

It is your code. Nothing is behind an API you do not own.

Try the difference in one call

The emoji set is a parameter. Change one word and the browser that takes the picture changes with it.

bash

curl -X POST https://webshotter.com/api/v1/webshots \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com", "emoji_set": "apple"}' \
  -o webshot.png

Other comparisons

vs Urlbox vs ScreenshotOne vs ApiFlash vs Browserless

See it against DIY Puppeteer yourself

A hundred webshots a month on the free plan, no card. Point both at the same page and look at the emoji.

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