A video and image creation API "for developers and no-code users": templates rendered to MP4 videos, GIFs and images.
Creatomate does video, and we do not: its templates render to real MP4 videos — a 30-second vertical Short is how it counts its credits — as well as images, with official Zapier, Make and n8n integrations, CSV import and shareable forms. If your automation is mostly Shorts, Reels or product clips, it is built for that and we are not.
| What | Creatomate | Shareglint |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest plan | Essential: $54 a month, or $45 a month billed yearly ($540), for 2,000 credits — "289 Shorts or 2,000 images" | Starter: $9 for 2,000 renders; Pro: $29 for 10,000 |
| Free option | 50 credits with no time limit; free renders are previews of up to 480 pixels | 100 renders every month, watermarked |
| Video | Their main product: video templates rendered to MP4 (a 30-second 720p vertical Short is their unit of measure) | No video editing; CSS animations recorded as GIF or MP4 of up to 5 s, 5 renders each |
| Formats | MP4, JPG, PNG and GIF | PNG, JPEG, WebP, one-page PDF; GIF and MP4 |
| API | On every plan: "Developers get the API on every plan" | On every plan, Free included |
| No-code | Official Zapier, Make and n8n integrations; CSV import and shareable forms | HTTP recipes for Zapier, Make, n8n, Airtable and Google Sheets — no native app; CSV batches |
| File retention | Finished videos and images stay available for 30 days | 365 days on paid plans |
| Image at a URL (og:image) | Not described on their pages | Signed URLs and auto OG URLs |
Creatomate pricing ($54 / mo ($45 billed yearly), 2,000 credits a month — 2,000 images or 289 thirty-second videos; 50 free credits) comes from their own public page, checked 2026-11. If something has changed — tell us and we will fix it.
Your content is video — Shorts, Reels, product clips — or you want an official Zapier, Make or n8n app.
You need still images, OG images by signed URL, PDFs or screenshots from templates written in HTML and CSS.
You rewrite the template once, as HTML and CSS. Preview costs no quota, so getting the layout right is free. Then you swap a single call on your side.
curl -X POST "https://shareglint.com/v1/images?wait=true" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"template":"blog-og","modifications":{"title":"...","author":"..."}}'Bannerbear · Placid · HTMLCSStoImage · Orshot · @vercel/og · Cloudinary · ScreenshotOne · Urlbox · ApiFlash · Templated · APITemplate.io · RenderForm · Imejis.io · DynaPictures · Canva Bulk Create · Abyssale · Robolly · Pixelixe · Bannerflow · Creatopy (The Brief) · html2canvas · Puppeteer