Rendershot provides a REST API designed for developers to generate screenshots and PDFs from URLs or raw HTML. It addresses use cases such as creating invoices, generating OG images for social media previews, producing styled HTML reports, capturing web page screenshots, scheduling captures for archiving or monitoring, and detecting visual regressions in continuous integration pipelines. The service outputs files in PNG, JPEG, or PDF formats, with screenshots defaulting to PNG and PDFs to A4 portrait.
The API allows users to render content by sending a POST request to endpoints like /v1/screenshot or /v1/pdf, accepting both URLs and HTML strings as input. Features include synchronous and asynchronous rendering modes, with async requests returning a job ID for polling results. Bulk rendering is supported via the /v1/bulk endpoint, allowing up to 20 jobs in a single request. Rendershot also offers an AI cleanup function to automatically remove cookie banners, chat widgets, and popups from screenshots, available in both "fast" and "thorough" modes, each with different credit costs.
Rendershot integrates with various developer environments and platforms. js, with a Go SDK in development. The service is compatible with MCP (Model Context Protocol), enabling integration with AI agents such as Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf through the @rendershot/mcp-server package. Additionally, it supports no-code automation via Zapier, offering actions like capture_screenshot and capture_pdf, with a public beta Zapier app pending directory review. The API is designed to work with any language capable of making HTTP requests.
The platform offers a free plan providing 200 renders per month without requiring a credit card. Users who exceed this limit receive a 402 response and can upgrade their plan from the dashboard. 9% uptime and an average response time under two seconds, using dedicated Chromium instances per worker for rendering tasks.
In the API design, testing & docs space, Rendershot takes a focused approach. It focuses on automating the generation of screenshots and PDFs from web content for developers and businesses. It is built as a B2B product for developers. A free plan is available; paid tiers begin at $19. It runs on the command line and API.
Behind Rendershot is Rendershot, and the product first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 21 commits in the last 90 days. PulseGate's similarity index finds few close equivalents — Rendershot occupies a relatively distinct niche. Key capabilities include Screenshot API, PDF generation, and REST API. It exposes integrations via an MCP server and a public API.
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