Selenium WebDriver vs Autify

Free and open source

Quote on request

Free and open source. The real cost is grid infrastructure or a device-cloud subscription.

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

Everything, self-hosted

Two-week free trial.

Category standard

Software Freedom Conservancy · since 2004

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

• The widest language and browser support of anything in the category, including legacy browser versions.
• A W3C standard, so it will outlive any single vendor. Skills transfer between employers.
• Every device cloud speaks Selenium, which keeps you portable between vendors.

• 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.

• No built-in waiting strategy, reporting, parallelism or assertions — expect to assemble and maintain a framework around it.
• Explicit waits are your problem, and getting them wrong is the number one source of flake in real Selenium suites.
• Out-of-process communication makes it slower than Playwright or Cypress.

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

Enterprises with polyglot teams, legacy browser requirements, or an existing grid investment.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.