Ranorex Studio vs Tricentis Tosca

From €3,690 per year (indicative, per named-user Studio licence)

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Perpetual and subscription options exist; runtime-only licences for CI agents are cheaper than authoring seats.

Enterprise licensing only, negotiated annually. Six-figure contracts are normal at scale.

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Established

Idera · since 2007

Widely used

Tricentis · since 2007

• Best-in-class desktop application support, including legacy Windows technologies.
• Object repository keeps recorded tests maintainable at scale.
• Full C# escape hatch for anything the recorder cannot express.

• Unmatched coverage of enterprise packaged software, especially SAP end-to-end processes.
• Model-based design means one change updates every affected test case.
• Risk-based prioritisation is a real answer to eight-hour regression packs.

• Windows-only authoring environment.
• Expensive per seat relative to open-source web tooling.
• Web automation is competent but not competitive with Playwright.

• Expensive, and priced for organisations with a procurement department.
• Steep learning curve; most customers buy consulting alongside the licence.
• Heavy and slow compared to modern code-first tools for plain web applications.

Organisations automating Windows desktop applications.

Large enterprises running SAP or similar packaged systems where no open-source tool reaches.