Nightwatch.js vs Autify

Free and open source

Quote on request

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

Everything, self-hosted

Two-week free trial.

Established

BrowserStack · since 2014

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

• Everything included: runner, assertions, page objects, reporting, parallelism.
• Very readable chained syntax that non-specialists pick up quickly.
• Tight BrowserStack integration if you already use that cloud.

• 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.

• Community is a fraction of Playwright's or Cypress's; fewer answers exist for edge cases.
• WebDriver-based, so it carries the usual latency and waiting caveats.
• Corporate stewardship by a device-cloud vendor is worth weighing if you plan to use a competitor.

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

Teams already on BrowserStack who want an integrated JavaScript framework.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.