Urlbox pricing and alternative

Urlbox Pricing and Urlbox Alternative for PDFs with a Dated Record of the Source

Urlbox prices every plan on a sliding volume scale, from $19 a month for 2,000 renders up to custom contracts. Below you get the full ladder, the cost per PDF at seven volumes against SitePDF, and an honest read on where each one is cheaper.

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Urlbox pricing starts at $19 a month for up to 2,000 renders on Lo-Fi, $49 for up to 5,000 on Hi-Fi, $99 for up to 15,000 on Ultra, and $495 a month plus $3 per 1,000 renders on Business, with Enterprise from $3,000 a month. Each plan then scales with volume: Lo-Fi is $52 at 10,000 renders and $200 at 50,000, Hi-Fi $67 and $240. One render covers 30 seconds and 5 MB, so slow or heavy PDFs cost more than one. SitePDF charges $49 a month for 10,000 renders and $99 for 50,000, PDF and dated archive included. Urlbox is cheaper below about 8,000 renders a month; from 10,000 up SitePDF is, and the gap widens with volume.

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Urlbox and SitePDF, compared honestly

Urlbox figures are from urlbox.com pricing, first read on 16 July 2026 and re-checked on 2 October 2026. SitePDF figures are from our pricing page.

	Urlbox	SitePDF
Primary output	Screenshots: PNG, JPEG, WebP, plus URL and HTML to PDF on every plan	Paginated, searchable PDF
PDF rendering	Every plan, including the $19 Lo-Fi (which limits third party sites to thumbnails)	Core product, every plan
Entry price	$19/mo for up to 2,000 renders, PDF included	$49/mo for 10,000 renders, PDF and archive included
Price with PDF	$19/mo for up to 2,000 renders, $49/mo for up to 5,000	$49/mo for the in-browser converter, API from $49/mo ($24/mo billed yearly)
Archiving	Yes, seriously: certified, timestamped captures via a certify option on the render call from the $99 Ultra plan (one extra render per year of storage), and bulk scheduled captures in CaptureDeck, a separate no code product from $49 a month	archive=true on the render you were already doing; one product, one bill
Full page capture	Excellent. This is Urlbox's home turf.	Yes, paginated with page sizes and margins
Rendering engine	Chrome with stealth plugins, named in its docs	Managed Chromium, named and documented
Status	Shipped, mature, years in production	Self-serve signup, PDF and archive in one call

We named Urlbox the other serious archiving vendor in our seven tool comparison before this page existed, and that assessment stands. This page is about output shape and price, not about pretending they are weak.

Urlbox pricing per PDF at seven monthly volumes

Urlbox does not sell fixed buckets. Its pricing page has a volume slider, and every plan is a graduated price that we read off the page at each step on 2 October 2026. The floors are Lo-Fi $19 for up to 2,000 renders, Hi-Fi $49 for up to 5,000, Ultra $99 for up to 15,000 and Business $495 base plus $3 per 1,000 renders. Enterprise starts at $3,000 a month. Prices exclude VAT, every plan except Business has a 7 day trial with no card, and Business has a 3 month trial on application.

Two limits change the arithmetic for documents. Lo-Fi caps files at 2.5 MB and requests at 30 seconds, and labels itself for screenshotting websites you own. Hi-Fi raises that to 10 MB and 90 seconds. On every plan one render is used for each 30 second period a request takes and for each 5 MB of output, so a 12 MB catalog costs three renders. The table assumes fast PDFs under 2.5 MB, which is the cheapest case for Urlbox.

PDFs a month	Urlbox Lo-Fi	Urlbox Hi-Fi	Urlbox Ultra	SitePDF monthly	SitePDF yearly (per month)
1,000	$19	$49	$99	$49	$24
5,000	$44	$49	$99	$49	$24
10,000	$52	$67	$99	$49	$24
25,000	$107.50	$127.50	$147.50	$99	$49
50,000	$200	$240	$280	$99	$49
100,000	$370	$440	$510	$299	$149
250,000	$884	$984	$1,084	$299	$149

Bold marks the cheapest monthly price at each volume. Urlbox Lo-Fi wins at 1,000 and 5,000 PDFs a month, and if your documents are small and fast it stays close to us at 10,000. From 25,000 up the graduated scale costs roughly two to three times our flat tiers, and billed yearly our price halves. On Business the same volumes cost $498, $510, $525, $570, $645, $795 and $1,245, which buys an SLA and dedicated support rather than cheaper renders. Urlbox also bills annual plans on renders per year (its FAQ says annual Lo-Fi works out at just over $4 a month), so a team with a small, steady volume should price that option too.

Where Urlbox wins, plainly

If the deliverable is an image, stop reading and buy Urlbox. It has spent years being exactly that product: full page screenshots that handle lazy loading and sticky headers correctly, multiple image formats, device sizes, and options that deal with the junk that ruins captures, like cookie banners. Its satisfaction guarantee and long trials are confident, mature product behavior.

Urlbox also treats page archiving as a real discipline, with certified, timestamped captures and retention, and we have said so in print in our seven tool comparison. On the record axis, they are the one vendor we consider a peer.

A PNG is a weak document and a worse record at scale

The difference between a screenshot and a PDF sounds cosmetic until you have a few thousand of them. A PDF carries selectable, searchable text: you can grep an archive of ten thousand statements for an account number in seconds. An image archive is opaque; finding one number in it means OCR, a second pipeline with its own error rate. A PDF paginates for print and filing with page sizes and margins; a 12,000 pixel tall PNG does not. A PDF preserves vector text at any zoom level; an image is one resolution forever.

None of this matters for a link preview thumbnail. All of it matters when the capture is an invoice, a disclosure, a statement or a page a lawyer may one day project on a screen. That is the job saving a page as a PDF exists for, and the reason our output is a document rather than a picture of one.

The pricing shapes are different, so run your own volume

Urlbox prices per render in tiers: $19 a month covers up to 2,000 renders on Lo-Fi, $49 up to 5,000 on Hi-Fi and $99 up to 15,000 on Ultra, and every plan includes PDF output. A correction to an earlier version of this section: we said PDF started at Hi-Fi. Urlbox's pricing table, re-read on 26 September 2026, ticks URL to PDF and HTML to PDF on every plan; the Lo-Fi limit is that third party websites render as thumbnails only. Storage of captures to your own bucket starts at Hi-Fi, and the certified archive starts at Ultra and uses one additional render per year of storage.

Our shape is flatter: $49 a month entry, every render can be a PDF, and the timestamped archive is a flag on the call rather than a second product. Whether that is cheaper for you depends entirely on your mix of images versus documents and how much you archive. Put your real monthly numbers against our tiers and theirs; five minutes with a calculator settles it.

One call for the document and the record

The workflow we optimized for is the one where the document and its provenance are the same event. Your app needs to hand a customer a PDF, and you need to be able to show, months later, what the source said when you generated it. With SitePDF that is a single /v1/render call: the PDF comes back in the response, and archive=true stores the timestamped snapshot under your account with retention you control.

If your source is a live page, the URL to PDF API covers it, including wait_for so charts and late loading content are on screen before the render fires. If you were evaluating Urlbox for screenshots as records specifically, our screenshot API alternative page addresses that exact comparison.

The SitePDF call: searchable document plus dated record, one request.

curl https://api.sitepdf.com/v1/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SITEPDF_KEY" \
  -d url="https://example.com/terms" \
  -d format=A4 \
  -d archive=true

{
  "pdf_url": "https://api.sitepdf.com/v1/documents/doc_4hh19.pdf",
  "archive": {
    "id": "arc_pw52c",
    "captured_at": "2026-07-16T09:15:48Z",
    "retrieve_url": "https://api.sitepdf.com/v1/archives/arc_pw52c"
  }
}

This is the documented API call shape. Full request and response walkthrough.

Questions about this job

How much does Urlbox cost?

Urlbox costs $19 a month for up to 2,000 renders on Lo-Fi, $49 for up to 5,000 on Hi-Fi, $99 for up to 15,000 on Ultra, and $495 a month plus $3 per 1,000 renders on Business. Each plan rises on a sliding scale with volume, for example Hi-Fi is $67 at 10,000 renders and $240 at 50,000. Figures read from urlbox.com on 2 October 2026.

Does Urlbox convert HTML to PDF?

Yes, both URL to PDF and HTML to PDF, on every plan including the $19 Lo-Fi tier with up to 2,000 renders a month; Lo-Fi limits screenshots of third party websites to thumbnails. Urlbox returns the file, or saves it to your own S3 bucket from Hi-Fi up. SitePDF returns a hosted PDF plus an optional dated archive copy of the source page.

Does Urlbox archive pages?

Yes, and credibly: a certify option on the render call hashes the file, timestamp and options as proof of when it was taken, available from the $99 Ultra plan and using one additional render per year of storage; bulk scheduled captures are sold separately as CaptureDeck. The difference with SitePDF is where it starts and what it keeps: our archive is a flag on every tier from $49, and it keeps the source page next to the PDF.

What is the best Urlbox alternative?

For image screenshots, honestly, probably nothing: Urlbox is the strongest product in that lane. The case for an alternative is when your output is documents: SitePDF returns a searchable, paginated PDF plus a timestamped archive of the page from one call, from $49 a month, where Urlbox returns the file for you to store and starts certified archiving at $99.

When should I stay with Urlbox?

When images are the deliverable: link preview thumbnails, social cards, visual monitoring, design QA captures. Also when you specifically want its mature capture options for full page screenshots. If your renders are mostly PNG and only occasionally PDF, Urlbox fits your shape better than a PDF first API does.

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