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Comparison

Compare Ironfang Render with Microlink

Built for teams rendering thousands of pages a month, not tens of thousands: plans start at £9 and are sized to real workloads, hard caps replace automatic overage, and failed renders are refunded.

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  • 250 free credits each month
  • No card required
  • Hard usage caps
Free allowance
250 credits
Paid plans from
£9 per month
Infrastructure
Operated in the UK

Pricing

Compare published monthly pricing

Ironfang Render plans share one credit allowance across screenshots, PDFs, images and clips. Compare those plans with Microlink at published monthly prices.

Hobby

£9 per month

~$12

  • 5,000 credits per month
  • £1.80 per 1,000 credits

Pro

£19 per month

~$26

  • 15,000 credits per month
  • £1.27 per 1,000 credits

Best value

Scale

£49 per month

~$67

  • 50,000 credits per month
  • £0.98 per 1,000 credits

Published reference

Microlink plans

Checked 29 August 2026

PlanMonthly priceMonthly allowanceCost per 1,000
Pro$4946,000$1.07

Ironfang Render bills in GBP. USD figures are approximate at £1 ≈ $1.36 and were checked 25 August 2026. The free plan includes 250 credits each month with no card required.

Capabilities

Shared production capabilities

Both APIs cover the same core rendering work:

Screenshots of any public URL

PDF rendering from a page

Capture of a single element rather than the whole page

Ad and cookie-banner blocking

Cached repeats served without re-rendering

Short video output from a page

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Platform fit

Choose around the requirements that matter

Price is one part of the decision. Check the delivery model and specialist controls your application depends on.

Why teams switch to Ironfang Render

One key covers screenshots, PDFs, generated images, QR codes and clips, at the published prices above - and the bill is decided before the month starts.

  • One API and one quota for screenshots, PDFs, generated images, QR codes and clips.
  • Hard monthly caps and free cache hits: no automatic overage, no surprise invoice.
  • A UK company billing in GBP, with support that reaches the engineers who run the service.

What Microlink has that we don't

Some Microlink capabilities have no Ironfang Render equivalent, and its free tier is larger. Check these against your workload before you move:

  • A larger free tier, at roughly 1,500 requests each month against 250 free credits here
  • One paid tier that includes 46,000 requests, which works out cheaper per request than Ironfang Render at that volume
  • Automatic proxy resolution, which Ironfang Render does not offer
  • Configurable cache TTL and custom cache keys
  • Page metadata extraction alongside the render
  • S3-like storage integration on their enterprise plan

Less to operate. More to ship.

Test Ironfang Render with your existing workflow

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Microlink pricing and option names were checked against the provider's published documentation on 29 August 2026. They may change. If any information is out of date, contact us and we will correct it.