Level Access vs WAVE

Quote on request

From $0.04 per page (API, indicative)

Enterprise contracts combining platform licence with audit and advisory services.

Free for interactive use; the API is priced per page for bulk scanning.

No free tier.

Browser extension and single-page online checker are free.

Established

Level Access · since 1997

Widely used

WebAIM (Utah State University) · since 2001

• Human expert audits and assistive-technology user testing alongside the tooling.
• Legal and VPAT support for organisations under compliance pressure.
• Covers web, mobile and desktop applications.

• The in-page visual overlay teaches non-specialists what is wrong far better than a list.
• Free for everyday developer and designer use.
• WebAIM's guidance behind each rule is authoritative and clear.

• Expensive, services-heavy engagement model.
• The UserWay overlay heritage is contentious — automated overlays are widely criticised by accessibility practitioners.
• Not a self-serve developer tool.

• Manual, page-by-page — not a CI tool.
• Alerts require human judgement, so counts are not directly comparable between pages.
• No issue tracking or programme management.

Organisations facing accessibility litigation or formal procurement requirements.

Designers and developers learning accessibility, and quick manual spot checks.