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Alternatives to PhantomJsCloud
PhantomJsCloud: Web browser as a service: headless Chrome/PhantomJS rendering and automation via HTTP API. 8 products similar to PhantomJsCloud, compared on pricing, free tier, API, MCP server, SDK and open source. 8 of 8 have a free tier, 7 of 8 have an API, 6 of 8 offer an MCP server.
- CustomJS
API toolkit for automation platforms: run JavaScript, generate PDFs from HTML, capture screenshots, and host forms inside Make.com, n8n, Power Automate, Zapier, or via REST API.
- WebScraping.AI
Web scraping API that returns rendered HTML, clean text, or AI-extracted structured JSON from any URL
- Screenshot Scout
Screenshot API for developers that captures screenshots of any URL with a single HTTP request.
- Pageclip
A server for your HTML forms
- SSR (Server-side Rendering) Checker
Visually test if your page is server-side rendered by loading it with and without JavaScript.
- PDFBolt
PDF generation API for converting HTML, URLs, and templates to PDFs
- screenshotbase
Screenshot API that turns any URL into a PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF or GIF, PDF, or markdown, with full-page or custom viewport captures.
- Microlink
A single API for turning any URL into data
Side by side
| Product | Pricing | Free tier | API | MCP server | SDK | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhantomJsCloud | Freemium | yes | yes | no | yes | no |
| CustomJS | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | — | — |
| WebScraping.AI | Freemium · from $29/month (Personal plan, 250,000 credits); pay-as-you-go $0.0002/credit with $20 minimum top-up | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Screenshot Scout | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Pageclip | Freemium | yes | yes | no | yes | no |
| SSR (Server-side Rendering) Checker | Freemium | yes | no | no | no | — |
| PDFBolt | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| screenshotbase | Freemium · from 15 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Microlink | Freemium | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
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