What Urlbox Ltd does

Urlbox Ltd is a UK-based private SaaS company, founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, that operates a developer-first screenshot-as-a-service platform. It serves software developers embedding capture into their own products, operations and compliance teams running bulk monitoring and archival, and regulated enterprises needing forensic-grade, audit-ready web captures. The platform reports 800M+ screenshots rendered for 1,700+ customers and 20,000+ developers over 13+ years of continuous operation.

Name

Urlbox Ltd

Legal name

Urlbox Ltd

Website

https://urlbox.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Urlbox Ltd operates a developer-first screenshot-as-a-service platform serving 1,700+ customers globally, including software developers, operations teams, and regulated enterprises. Its Screenshot API and CaptureDeck bulk tool, powered by a proprietary Web Vision Engine, have rendered over 800M screenshots since 2012.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Screenshot API / Web Rendering Service

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Web Archiving, Cache & Snapshot Services (BPAMAAAL)

Keywords

• Screenshot API
• Website screenshots
• Full page capture
• Web rendering service
• Visual data extraction

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. API Usage-Based Subscriptions: Usage-based pricing tiers (Pro, Team) where customers pay per month and receive a set allocation of screenshots, with overage charges. The 'You only pay for successful renders' policy indicates successful delivery drives revenue. Pay-per-success model aligns company incentives with customer outcomes.
2. Volume/Enterprise Contracts: Custom pricing for large organisations with higher volume needs, extended trials, enhanced SLAs, and custom MSAs. Revenue derived from multi-year commitments and custom deployment options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Urlbox Ltd operates a screenshot-as-a-service platform providing a developer-facing Screenshot API and a no-code CaptureDeck bulk tool. Both are powered by a proprietary Web Vision Engine that renders full-page website screenshots, removes overlays and banners, captures forensic-grade context (HTML, markdown, JSON, metadata, cryptographic timestamps/hashes), and outputs PNG, JPEG, WEBP, AVIF, MP4, WEBM, PDF, and structured data. The service supports 100+ render controls, 200+ country geolocation with stealth mode, BYO cloud storage, and optional opt-in AI integrations with major LLM providers for structured output.

Product overview

Urlbox Ltd operates a platform-plus-products architecture offering two core products: the Screenshot API for developer integration and CaptureDeck for bulk team workflows. The platform uses a Web Vision Engine to capture full-page screenshots, clean captures (removing modals/overlays), video, PDFs, and structured data from URLs or HTML. Additional tools include URL2Text (text extraction), HTML to Image (HTML-to-image conversion), Screenshot.new (quick capture), and OneMillionScreenshots (public scale demonstration). The platform supports over 100 customization options, 200+ country geolocation, stealth mode to avoid bot detection, and optional LLM integration for AI-powered analysis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Screenshot API Developer-facing REST API that generates full-page website screenshots on demand for SaaS and engineering teams. Supports synchronous and asynchronous requests, webhooks, and secure render links, with 100+ customisation options, multi-format output (PNG, JPEG, WEBP, AVIF, PDF, SVG), video output (MP4, WEBM), and structured data extraction (MD, JSON, HTML). Sells to software teams embedding capture into their own products.
• CaptureDeck No-code bulk screenshot tool for non-technical operations and compliance teams. Users upload a CSV or paste a list of URLs to produce clean screenshots, ZIP archives, and audit-ready PDF reports without developer involvement. Suitable for archiving, monitoring, audit, and verification use cases.

Quantifiable outcome

• 800M+ screenshots rendered for 1,700+ customers across 200+ countries
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability6 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS is listed as a storage integration partner. Customers can send screenshots and context directly to their own AWS S3 or other AWS storage infrastructure, enabling BYO storage for sensitive data without storing it on Urlbox servers.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationAzure is listed as a storage integration partner. Customers can route screenshots to their own Azure blob storage or other Azure services, maintaining data residency and compliance requirements on Azure infrastructure.
• Google Cloud PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Cloud is listed as a storage integration partner. Customers can direct screenshots and context to GCS (Google Cloud Storage) buckets, supporting compliance and data sovereignty requirements on GCP.
• CloudflarecoreTechnology or IntegrationCloudflare is listed as a storage integration partner for customers who prefer to use Cloudflare R2 or other Cloudflare services for storing screenshots and context data on their own infrastructure.
• ZapiercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorZapier integration allows no-code automation workflows. Users can trigger screenshot captures from hundreds of apps or route screenshots to downstream tools without writing code, extending Urlbox's reach to non-technical users.
• n8nminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributorn8n integration enables open-source workflow automation with Urlbox screenshot capabilities, providing an alternative to Zapier for technical users who prefer self-hosted or custom workflow solutions.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ApiFlash: Direct screenshot-as-a-service API competitor offering URL-to-image rendering with a usage-based pricing model comparable to Urlbox's Pro tier. Targets the same developer and SaaS embedding use cases.
• Microlink: Competitor offering a screenshot and link-preview API that turns URLs into images, PDFs and metadata. Closely comparable on output format breadth and developer/API-first motion.
• ScreenshotAPI: Veteran SaaS screenshot API service competing head-to-head on full-page rendering, format options and usage-based subscriptions. Same product category and developer target buyer.
• ScreenshotOne: Direct competitor providing a screenshot API with similar render options (full page, custom CSS/JS, dark mode) and developer-led positioning. Operates in the same niche as Urlbox with overlapping customer profiles.
• ScrapingBee: Web-scraping API that includes a screenshot feature among its deliverable types. Targets the same 'render any URL reliably' developer pain point with comparable stealth and proxy capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Cloudflare Browser Rendering: Cloudflare Workers-based headless browser offering screenshot and PDF rendering. Major risk of cloud-platform bundling that could undercut dedicated API providers like Urlbox on price/distribution.
• Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub): Managed web-scraping infrastructure provider with browser-rendering and screenshot output, serving enterprise data teams. Comparable on the 'reliable URL rendering at scale' value proposition with a much larger commercial footprint.
• Diffbot: Web data extraction platform that ingests URLs and returns structured information comparable to Urlbox's forensic-grade markdown/JSON/HTML output. Broader scope but overlapping on the 'URL to structured data' use case.
• Apify: Cloud web-scraping and automation platform with a screenshot actor in its marketplace. Much broader than Urlbox but competes for the same enterprise automation budget and developer mindshare.

Emerging players

• Browserless: Headless-browser-as-a-service that powers screenshotting as one of many automation use cases (scraping, PDF generation, automation). Adjacent capability set, broader scope than Urlbox's specialised stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/url_box

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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