Every comparison, side by side
Each page puts Microlink next to one tool: the pricing math, a feature table built from their own docs, and what that tool does that Microlink does not.
Browsers and scraping
Running a headless browser yourself, renting one by the hour, or paying per credit for a scraping API.
Puppeteer
Keep the Chrome output, drop the Chrome fleet: binaries, memory, queues and retries.
Playwright
Keep Playwright for tests. Move production screenshots, PDFs and scraping to one request.
Cloudflare Browser Rendering
A screenshot URL with cache, proxy and adblock built in.
ScrapingBee
One call is one request, so plan size is page count. No credit multipliers.
ScraperAPI
The same price for every URL, rendered or proxied, whatever the domain.
Markdown and AI data
Clean page content for LLMs, agents and retrieval pipelines.
Jina Reader
One request per call whatever the page length, every format in one response.
Context.dev
Metadata, logo, palette, markdown and screenshot billed as one request.
SerpApi
Google results as JSON across 10 surfaces, with no hourly throughput cap.
Screenshot APIs
Same request, same URL, same output format, compared on speed, price and what else comes back.
ApiFlash
Production screenshot workloads with metadata and PDF in the same call.
ScreenshotAPI
Screenshots, metadata and link previews billed as one request each.
Screenshot Machine
Screenshots plus PDF, metadata and browser automation from the same API.
Screenshotlayer
46,000 requests for $49 against 30,000 snapshots for $59.99.
Thum.io
Full-page and element screenshots plus PDFs, with timing measured to the final image.
Link previews, embeds and logos
Metadata, rich embeds and brand assets for any URL.
Clearbit Logo API
logo.clearbit.com is gone. Resolve any site’s logo and brand colors on your server.
Embedly
One shared request bucket for embeds, metadata and screenshots, at a lower per-URL price.
Product Information
How the comparisons are made and what a Microlink request costs.
Where do the competitor numbers come from?
From each vendor’s own pricing page and documentation, linked from the page that uses them. Every page also names what the other tool does that Microlink does not, so the comparison holds up when you check it.
Can I test it against my own URLs before paying?
Yes. A free API key gives 25 requests a day with every Pro feature and no credit card, and 5 requests a day work with no key at all.
I run Puppeteer or Playwright myself. Where do I start?
With the page for the tool you run: Puppeteer or Playwright. The Puppeteer page lists what you stop running and how function takes your existing page code. The Playwright page maps each call you make today to a Microlink parameter. Both say when keeping your own browser is the better choice.
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