Reflect vs Cypress

From $99 per month (indicative entry plan)

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

Priced by test runs and concurrency; entry plans suit small suites.

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

14-day trial.

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

Emerging

Reflect Software · since 2019

Category standard

Cypress.io · since 2017

• Nothing to install; a non-technical colleague can record a regression test in ten minutes.
• Handles file uploads, iframes and email verification, which trip up many no-code tools.
• Transparent published pricing, which is rare in this segment.

• 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.

• Cloud-only, so testing a private environment requires network work.
• Not suited to very large suites or heavy conditional logic.
• Small vendor — check longevity if this becomes critical infrastructure.

• 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.

Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.

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