Two screenshot APIs at the same price point — one returns raw images, the other was built for the agent loop.
Site-Shot is a reliable, affordable screenshot API. You get a clean image back — but when an AI agent calls it, that image arrives as 500KB+ of base64 that eats a big slice of the context window.
PageVistly matches Site-Shot's pricing and adds what agents actually need: a ~30KB preview + extracted page text + signed URL with a token budget, plus visual diff and vision-model descriptions.
| PageVistly | Site-Shot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 500 renders/mo | 50 renders/mo |
| Entry plan | $5 / 2,000 | $5 / 2,000 |
| 10K volume | $15 | $30 |
| Cost per 1,000 (entry) | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| Feature | PageVistly | Site-Shot |
|---|---|---|
| Screenshots (PNG/JPEG/WebP) | ✅ | ✅ |
| PDF rendering | ✅ | ✅ |
| Agent context economy (preview + text + signed URL) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Visual diff (change detection) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Visual description (vision model) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Official MCP server | ✅ (npx @pagevistly/mcp) | ❌ (manual integration) |
| OG image generation | ✅ | ❌ |
| Ad & cookie-banner blocking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Design templates / watermark | ❌ | ✅ |
Same $5 entry price, same renders — but your agent gets context-friendly output, change detection, and vision descriptions instead of raw base64.
It has useful visual templates and watermarking for human-facing screenshots. For agent workloads, you'll pay for features you don't use and get no context economy.
Try PageVistly free → (500 renders/month, no credit card)