Argos vs Lost Pixel

From $30 per month (indicative)

From $30 per month (indicative, hosted platform)

Transparent, low pricing relative to the category incumbents.

Substantially cheaper than Percy or Chromatic for comparable hosted review.

Free tier with a monthly screenshot allowance; free for open-source projects.

Open-source runner is free and unlimited when self-hosted.

Emerging

Argos · since 2017

Emerging

Lost Pixel · since 2022

• Clean, fast PR review experience.
• Genuinely affordable, with a workable free tier.
• Open source, so self-hosting is a real fallback.

• Self-host for free or pay a modest fee for the review workflow — you choose per project.
• Works with Storybook and with plain page URLs.
• Clean GitHub Actions integration.

• Fewer integrations than Percy or Applitools.
• Small team behind it.
• Limited cross-browser rendering options.

• Small vendor; assess sustainability before making it critical infrastructure.
• Fewer browser and device permutations than the incumbents.
• Less sophisticated diffing than Applitools' visual AI.

Small and mid-sized teams wanting visual review in PRs at a sane price.

Cost-conscious teams that want a hosted visual review workflow without enterprise pricing.