Autify vs Cypress

Quote on request

From $75 per month (Cloud, entry team plan)

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

You only pay for Cypress Cloud. Costs scale with recorded test results, so a large suite on every PR is the expensive shape.

Two-week free trial.

The test runner is free forever. Cypress Cloud free tier covers a limited number of recorded test results per month.

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Category standard

Cypress.io · since 2017

• Very low barrier to a first working suite — recording plus a managed browser cloud.
• Maintenance burden is genuinely reduced by the self-healing model.
• Covers web and native mobile from one vendor.

• The interactive runner is the best onboarding experience in E2E testing; a new developer writes a passing test in minutes.
• Excellent documentation and one of the largest plugin ecosystems.
• Component testing and E2E in one tool with one config.

• No self-hosted option.
• Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
• Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.

• Runs in the same event loop as your app, which historically meant no multi-tab, multi-origin or iframe-heavy testing without workarounds. Support has improved but the model still constrains you.
• JavaScript and TypeScript only.
• Meaningful parallelisation effectively requires paying for Cypress Cloud.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

Front-end teams who value developer experience and live in a single-origin JavaScript app.