Chromatic vs Lost Pixel

From $149 per month (indicative, starter)

From $30 per month (indicative, hosted platform)

Snapshot-based billing. TurboSnap, which only re-tests stories affected by a change, is the main cost control.

Substantially cheaper than Percy or Chromatic for comparable hosted review.

Free tier with a monthly snapshot allowance.

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

Widely used

Chromatic · since 2017

Emerging

Lost Pixel · since 2022

• Zero-effort setup if you already have Storybook — stories are the tests.
• The hosted review UI is genuinely usable by designers and product managers.
• TurboSnap dramatically reduces snapshot cost on large libraries.

• 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.

• Strongly tied to Storybook; without it much of the value disappears.
• Component-level, not full-page — it will not catch a broken page layout.
• Snapshot pricing still adds up on a big design system.

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

Design-system and component-library teams already invested in Storybook.

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