TestCafe vs Testim

Free and open source

Quote on request

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

Quote-based beyond the free tier; priced by annual test runs.

Everything, self-hosted

Free plan with a limited monthly run allowance.

Established

DevExpress · since 2016

Established

Tricentis · since 2014

• 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.

• Smart locators handle everyday UI churn well.
• The escape hatch to real JavaScript keeps complex cases possible.
• Reusable shared steps keep large recorded suites maintainable.

• 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.

• Test logic lives in the vendor's cloud rather than your repository, which complicates review and branching.
• Run-based pricing punishes running the full suite on every commit.
• Post-acquisition roadmap is bound to the wider Tricentis strategy.

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

Teams with fast-changing UIs that need maintenance to stay low.