Api2Pdf alternative: FrameForge compared
An honest side-by-side. Api2Pdf's details are taken from their pricing page as it read on 11 November 2026. Prices change, so check their site before you decide.
| Api2Pdf | FrameForge | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $1/month plus $0.001 per MB bandwidth and $0.00019551 per second of compute (pay as you go) | £9/mo for 3,000 renders; £29/mo for 20,000; £49 once for 12 months of the 20,000 plan (first 100 customers) |
| Free option | One month of free credit for new accounts | No free API tier; free 14-day trial key (100 renders) by email; free web tools (5/day) |
| Output formats | PDF (Chrome, wkhtmltopdf, LibreOffice), merge, watermark, barcodes | PNG, JPEG, PDF |
| Notable features | Very cheap at volume (their own estimate: about $5.91 for 10,000 typical PDFs), no rate limits, office-document conversion | Best-effort cookie-banner hiding, full-page capture. Identical requests within 24 hours are served from cache and not counted. |
| Not included | See their site for limits | No WebP, S3 upload, webhooks, templates editor, SDKs, proxies/geo or official Zapier/Make apps yet |
Choose Api2Pdf if…
…you mainly generate PDFs and want the lowest possible cost per document, or you need Office conversion. At high volume it is cheaper than FrameForge.
Choose FrameForge if…
…you want a predictable flat monthly price, PNG/JPEG screenshots from the same endpoint, and cached repeats that don't count.
Switching
FrameForge is one endpoint: POST /render with JSON {"url" | "html", "format", "width", "height", "fullPage"} and an X-API-Key header. The response is the file itself. Most migrations mean changing one HTTP call. See the language guides.
FrameForge is a new, small service. We list what it doesn't do so you can decide quickly. Corrections are welcome at [email protected].