TestCafe vs Leapwork

Free and open source

Quote on request

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

Enterprise quote-based licensing, typically annual and sized by concurrent runners plus authoring seats.

Everything, self-hosted

Free trial.

Established

DevExpress · since 2016

Emerging

Leapwork · since 2015

• Zero setup: no drivers, no browser downloads, works on any installed browser including mobile Safari on a real phone.
• Automatic waiting and stable selectors with very little configuration.
• Genuinely simple concurrency flag for parallel runs.

• Genuinely usable by non-technical staff — the flowchart model is easier than any script-behind-a-recorder approach.
• Covers Citrix, virtual desktop and mainframe environments that most tools cannot touch.
• Doubles as an RPA platform, which can consolidate two budgets.

• The proxy architecture occasionally breaks on apps with strict CSP, service workers or unusual auth flows.
• Smaller community and slower ecosystem growth than Playwright or Cypress.
• No component testing story.

• Flowcharts do not diff or merge, so version control is essentially unusable.
• Complex logic becomes an unreadable sprawl of blocks.
• Enterprise pricing with no small-team entry point.

Small teams who want a working cross-browser suite with the least possible setup.

Enterprises where business users must own automation and Citrix or mainframe is in scope.