A template editor plus an API, with strong marketing-tool integrations.
Placid's layer editor is more polished than ours, and it comes with a lot of ready integrations and credits that roll over to the next month — for a team without a developer that is still a real advantage. Our editor does the essentials (layers, fields, images, shapes, auto-fitting) and hands over to plain HTML and CSS when you need more.
| What | Placid | Shareglint |
|---|---|---|
| Price per 1,000 images | About $15.60 ($39 for 2,500) | $4.50 ($9 for 2,000) |
| Free tier | Trial credits | 100 images every month |
| Visual editor | Yes, more polished | Yes — layers, drag and drop, fields |
| Layer-based templates | Yes | Yes in the visual editor, or a full HTML document |
| Preview without using quota | Limited | Yes, a dedicated endpoint |
| Unused credits | Roll over | Do not roll over |
Placid pricing ($39 / mo, 2,500 credits) comes from their own public page, checked 2026-10. If something has changed — tell us and we will fix it.
You want a mature mouse-first editor and to wire templates into marketing tools without writing code.
You would rather keep the template in your repository, versioned with the code — or build a simple one in our visual editor — and pay for renders, not for an editor.
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 · HTMLCSStoImage · Orshot · @vercel/og · Cloudinary