Prerender.io vs PreRender24 (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Prerender.io if

• Fits if your site is a JavaScript app and search or AI crawlers see empty pages
• Works for fixing blank link previews on Facebook, WhatsApp and similar apps

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: when the trial ends, rendering stops and crawlers get errors until you pay or remove it
• Pricey if you go over your renders, at $2.25 per 1,000 on Starter, with desktop, mobile, redirect and error pages all counted
• Not for you if you can't touch your server or CDN, as setup means adding middleware or a rule
• Tight if you want annual billing, which comes only with the custom-priced Enterprise Plus

Pick PreRender24 if

• Fits if your React, Vue or Lovable app looks empty to search crawlers
• Works for sites that want GPTBot and ClaudeBot to read their content

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: setup moves your domain's nameservers to Cloudflare
• Skip it if you want a free plan, as a paid one is needed after the 14-day trial
• Tight if your content changes often, as Starter re-renders every 7 days with 2 manual recrawls a month
• Pricey if you want daily cache refreshes, which need Agency at €199 a month
• Watch out: prices are in euros, and going past your pageviews brings alerts and a prompt to upgrade

Prerender.io

• The free plan ended in October 2025; when the 30-day trial runs out, rendering stops and crawlers get errors until you pay or remove the integration.
• Renders past the allowance cost $2.25 per 1,000 on Starter. Desktop and mobile render separately, and redirect and error pages count too.
• Self-serve plans bill monthly; annual billing comes with the custom-priced Enterprise Plus plan.
• Setup means adding middleware or a CDN rule to your server, framework or hosting.

PreRender24

• Setup moves the domain's nameservers to Cloudflare; PreRender24 creates the zone, so no Cloudflare account of your own is needed.
• There is no free plan: after the 14-day trial a paid subscription is required, and prices are in euros.
• Starter refreshes its cache only every 7 days with 2 manual recrawls a month; daily refresh needs Agency at €199 a month.
• Going past the monthly pageview limit does not stop the service, but brings alerts at 80% and 100% and a prompt to upgrade.

Prerender.io

Rendering for crawlers

Requests from bots are sent to Prerender.io, which returns a cached, fully rendered HTML copy of the page instead of an empty JavaScript shell.

AI Insights

Shows which AI crawlers, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot, reach the site, which pages they see and what blocks them. Included on every self-serve plan.

Cache controls

Set how often pages are re-rendered, from every 24 hours to 7 days on Starter down to every 6 hours on Pro, with sitemap revisits for new URLs.

Social link previews

Rendered pages give sharing bots the titles and images they need, so link previews load on Facebook, Pinterest, WhatsApp and similar apps.

Many integration options

Setup guides cover Cloudflare Workers, Nginx, Apache, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, Next.js, Netlify, WordPress, Magento and app builders such as Lovable.

PreRender24

Crawler detection at the edge

Recognizes search engine and AI crawlers such as Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot by user agent, and sends human visitors straight to the origin.

Cached rendered HTML

Runs on Cloudflare Workers: each page is rendered once, cached at the edge and served to crawlers as finished HTML instead of an empty JavaScript shell.

Scheduled cache refresh

Cached pages are re-rendered every 7 days, every 3 days or daily depending on the plan, with 2, 10 or unlimited manual recrawls a month.

Crawl log

The dashboard logs every bot visit as it happens, alongside the domain's SEO score, prerender status and origin URL.

SEO and AI visibility checks

Monitors an SEO score, Core Web Vitals from the PageSpeed Insights API and Google rankings for chosen keywords, and tests whether AI models mention a brand.

IndexNow, hreflang and free checks

Pings search engines through IndexNow when content changes and supports hreflang. Free SEO scan, bot check and DNS check tools are on the site.

Prerender.io

• Starter$59

  per month for 30,000 renders, billed monthly

  Unlimited domains, API access, cache refresh every 24 hours to 7 days, 60 days of data and extra renders at $2.25 per 1,000.

• Growth$169

  per month for 100,000 renders, billed monthly

  Cache refresh every 12 hours to 14 days, 6 months of data, an audit log and extra renders at $1.75 per 1,000.

• Pro$419

  per month for 500,000 renders, billed monthly

  Cache refresh every 6 hours to 30 days, per-URL cache rules, 2 years of data, priority support and extra renders at $1.50 per 1,000.

• Enterprise PlusCustom

  1 million or more renders, a dedicated success and account manager, a 2-hour support SLA, business reviews and annual billing.

PreRender24

• Starter€9.99

  per month for 1 domain and 300 pages, billed monthly

  150k pageviews a month, cache refreshed every 7 days, 2 manual recrawls a month and email support.

• Pro€29.97

  per month for 3 domains and 1,500 pages, billed monthly

  600k pageviews a month, cache refreshed every 3 days, 10 manual recrawls a month and priority support.

• Agency€199

  per month for 100 domains and 50,000 pages, billed monthly

  5 million pageviews a month, daily cache refresh, unlimited manual recrawls and dedicated support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited domains, a custom SLA, a dedicated account manager and an on-premise option, quoted on request.

Prerender.io

No public discounts listed.

PreRender24

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  PreRender24's pricing page has a Monthly/Yearly toggle marked Save 20%, and its pricing FAQ says yearly billing saves 20%.