Is shotanvil's free tier really a trial?

No — shotanvil's own pricing page describes the Free tier as: "No card. Permanent. Not a trial."

How is overage billed on shotanvil's paid plans?

Overage on shotanvil's paid plans is metered at $1.50 per 1,000 screenshots beyond the plan's included amount — no credits, no render-time multipliers, no hard-stops mid-month, and no auto-upgrades.

What does shotanvil block by default when taking a screenshot?

Ad-blocking and cookie-banner blocking are both on by default for every capture.

Does shotanvil publish its API latency publicly?

Not yet as a live number — shotanvil says nobody else in the screenshot-API market publishes latency, and commits to shipping a live dashboard wired to production the day its API ships.

v1 public beta — launch week

The honestscreenshot API.

1 screenshot = 1 request. No credits.

A free tier that's actually free.

Public latency at launch. From $9/mo.

Start free — no card Try the playground

↳ drag anywhere on this hero to frame a shot — the page screenshots itself

captures land here…

playground

One endpoint. Watch a capture happen.

GET /take with ad-blocking and cookie-banner blocking on by default. Every capture prints a receipt line, because every capture is exactly one request.

https://aurora-supply.shop

simulated playground — the live API ships with these exact params

public latency

Every blink is a capture. The blink takes exactly as long as the capture did.

Nobody in this market publishes latency. We will — as a live dashboard wired to production, the day the API ships. This shutter runs on a simulated feed so you can feel the idea: the number and the animation are the same value, so the animation can't lie.

click the shutter to fire your own capture ↗

— ms

p50 · simulated feed

pricing

1 screenshot = 1 request. That's the whole pricing model.

No credits, no render-time multipliers, no hard-stops mid-month, no auto-upgrades. Overage is metered at $1.50 per 1,000 and that is the entire fine print.

Free

$0/mo

1,000 screenshots

No card. Permanent. Not a trial.

Get a free key

Hobby

$9/mo

5,000 screenshots

$1.80/1,000 shots

Metered overage. Never hard-stopped, never auto-upgraded.

Get Hobby access

Pro

Scale

$99/mo

150,000 screenshots

$0.66/1,000 shots

S3 export + priority render pool (rolling out).

Get Scale access

Cancel yourself, anytime, one click — no email, no retention call. Not sure in the first 30 days? Full refund, no questions asked.

Before you ask

Is the free tier actually free forever, or a trial?: Permanent, not a trial. No card to start, and it stays 1,000 screenshots/mo for as long as you use it.
What happens when I go over my monthly quota?: Nothing stops. Overage is metered at $1.50 per 1,000 — no hard-stop mid-month, no forced upgrade to a bigger plan.
Do you store or retain my screenshots?: No. The default cache TTL is 0 — screenshots aren't retained after the response is returned.
Can I cancel anytime?: Yes — one click, self-serve, no email or retention call needed.

Scrub it. The math is the same at every point.

The image is the meter: 1,000 tiles, one per free screenshot.

1,000 tiles · 1 tile = 1 screenshot · the dashed box is your free month

+2,500 more — still 1:1

Screenshots per month

3,500shots/mo

Hobby $9.00 — covers 5,000
1 screenshot = 1 request. No credits, no multipliers, no hard-stops.