Hobby
£9 per month
~$12
- 5,000 credits per month
- £1.80 per 1,000 credits
Comparison
Compare Ironfang Render with Urlbox
Ship the same screenshot, PDF and image workloads from £19 a month - a quarter of Urlbox’s published price at 15,000 renders - with a permanent free tier and hard caps instead of overage.
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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 Urlbox at published monthly prices.
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
Urlbox plans
Checked 25 August 2026
| Plan | Monthly price | Monthly allowance | Cost per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lo-Fi | $19 | 2,000 | $9.50 per 1,000 |
| Hi-Fi | $49 | 5,000 | $9.80 per 1,000 |
| Ultra | $99 | 15,000 | $6.60 per 1,000 |
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 support the following common production requirements:
URL or raw HTML input with PNG, JPEG or WebP output
Full page, element, region and viewport captures
Retina output, dark mode, transparent background
Block ads, then hide cookie banners and selected elements
Headers, cookies and authorization for pages behind a login
Wait for a selector or for network idle
PDFs with paper sizes, margins, headers and footers
Signed render URLs, following the pattern used by Urlbox render links
Review every verified field in the full feature comparison.
Migration
Map your existing parameters
Many common request parameters have direct equivalents. This table maps Urlbox's published option names to Ironfang Render fields:
| Urlbox | Ironfang Render | Notes |
|---|---|---|
width / height | width / height | |
retina | device_scale_factor: 2 | |
full_page | full_page | |
hide_cookie_banners | block_cookie_banners | Hides banners without recording consent |
click_accept | not offered | Ironfang Render does not record consent automatically |
block_ads | block_ads | |
hide_selector | hide_selectors | takes a list |
wait_for | wait_for_selector | |
wait_until: domloaded / loaded / requestsfinished | wait_until: domcontentloaded / load / networkidle | |
delay | delay_ms | |
header / cookie | headers / cookies | objects rather than repeated strings |
authorization | authorization | |
user_agent | user_agent |
Send a JSON body to POST https://api.ironfang.uk/renderwolf/v1/screenshot and use your API key as a bearer token.
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 Urlbox has that we don't
Ironfang Render keeps its API focused, so a few Urlbox specialisms have no equivalent here. Check these against your workload before you move:
- Proxy routing, stealth mode and per-country rendering
- Direct delivery to S3 or Azure storage
- The retry engine with per-condition retry rules
- Async rendering with webhook callbacks
Less to operate. More to ship.
Test Ironfang Render with your existing workflow
Create a free account with 250 credits each month and no card required. Use the mapping above to translate your current request.
Urlbox pricing and option names were checked against the provider's published documentation on 25 August 2026. They may change. If any information is out of date, contact us and we will correct it.