Migrating from Puppeteer to PageBolt: Simplify Your Screenshot Pipeline

Migrating from Puppeteer to PageBolt: Simplify Your Screenshot Pipeline You're running Puppeteer in production. It works. But every month, you're spending $3,500+ on infrastructure, your Docker images weigh 1.2GB, and your team is debugging browser pool exhaustion at 2 AM. You're not alone. Thousands of teams have been there. And more are quietly switching to hosted screenshot APIs. Here's why—and how to make the move. The Hidden Cost of Puppeteer Puppeteer solves a real problem: headless browser automation at scale. But running it in production means: Infrastructure costs: Chrome instances consume 300–500MB each. At scale (10 concurrent instances), that's 5GB baseline. AWS t3.xlarge instance (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM) runs $130/month. With CPU overhead, you need 2–3 of them: $260–390/month . Add load balancing, monitoring, backups: $500+/month baseline . At 10,000 screenshots/month, that's $0.05 per screenshot (before scaling). Operational overhead: Browser pool management (connection limits,