CurlShot vs DEVRlAN: Which Is Better in 2026?

CurlShot gives your app, your scripts and your AI agents a clear look at any web page.

ONE REQUEST
Send a page address, HTML or Markdown to one endpoint and get back an image (PNG, JPEG, WebP), a PDF, or a scrolling video (MP4, WebM, GIF). No SDK: anything that can fetch a URL already works, and the docs have examples for cURL, Node.js, Python, PHP, Go and Ruby.

WHAT PEOPLE BUILD WITH IT
- Link previews and website thumbnails
- Open Graph images rendered from HTML templates
- Visual checks of pages across phones, tablets and desktops
- PDF archives of web pages for records and compliance
- Reports and certificates from Markdown or HTML
- AI agents that need to see a page, through MCP

DETAILS THAT SAVE TIME
Cookie banners and ads hidden before the capture. Lazy images loaded. Dark mode on request. Wait for a selector, click a button, inject CSS. Cache results and reuse them for free. Signed links so a key never appears in your HTML. Async jobs, webhooks and bulk runs of up to 100 pages.

WHO IT IS FOR
Developers adding previews or PDFs to a product, teams automating reports and checks in n8n or their own scripts, and builders giving AI agents a way to look at web pages.

PRICES
A free plan with 100 screenshots a month and no card. Paid plans have a fixed monthly price: $19, $79 or $249. Yearly billing gets 2 months free. 14-day money-back guarantee.

Try it without an account at https://curlshot.com

What problem it solves

Running headless browsers in production is fragile: cookie banners, lazy images, timeouts, memory and queues. Developers who need screenshots, PDFs or page videos in their apps, pipelines or AI agents get them from one HTTP request instead.

Alternatives & competitors

An alternative to running Puppeteer or Playwright yourself, and to other screenshot APIs.

DEVRlAN is a privacy-first browser workspace built for developers who need fast, practical utilities for everyday technical tasks.

Instead of switching between multiple websites, developers can use a focused collection of browser-based tools in one place. DEVRlAN includes utilities for JSON formatting and validation, JWT debugging, Base64 encoding and decoding, UUID generation, Regex testing, URL encoding, hashing, and other common developer workflows.

Privacy is a core part of the product. Whenever possible, processing happens locally in the browser rather than sending sensitive input to a remote server. This makes DEVRlAN useful for developers working with data they may not want to upload to third-party services.

The platform is free to use and does not require an account or installation. Developers can open a tool, complete the task, and return to their work without setting up another service.

DEVRlAN is an independent developer project focused on useful browser-native utilities, simple workflows, and privacy-conscious design.

What problem it solves

Developers often switch between multiple websites for small technical tasks such as formatting JSON, decoding Base64, inspecting JWTs, generating UUIDs, testing Regex, encoding URLs, and hashing data. DEVRlAN brings these everyday utilities into one browser workspace, reducing unnecessary tool switching while keeping sensitive processing local whenever possible.

Alternatives & competitors

DEVRlAN is an alternative to using separate online developer utilities for individual tasks. It focuses on bringing common browser-based utilities into one privacy-conscious workspace, with local processing whenever possible.