PageBolt vs. Urlbox: beyond screenshot APIs

PageBolt vs. Urlbox: Beyond Screenshot APIs Urlbox has been around since 2015 and it's a solid screenshot API. If you need a screenshot, it delivers. The developers who end up on PageBolt's docs are usually the ones who started with a screenshot API and then needed one more thing — a video, a narrated demo, a page inspection for an AI agent — and found themselves stitching together multiple tools. PageBolt is what you reach for when that happens. The core difference Urlbox captures web pages as images or PDFs. It's been refining that capability for a decade and does it well. PageBolt captures web pages as images, PDFs, and videos — and adds browser automation sequencing, structured page inspection, and MCP integration. Screenshots are entry-level; the API is designed around what comes after them. Feature comparison Capability Urlbox PageBolt Screenshot (URL → image) ✅ ✅ PDF generation ✅ ✅ Full-page capture ✅ ✅ Block ads/banners ✅ ✅ Custom viewport/device ✅ ✅ Video recording ❌ ✅ AI voic