TestCafe vs Testsigma

Free and open source

From $349 per month (indicative, cloud pro)

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

Cloud plans priced by parallel runs and users; the self-hosted community edition is free but you operate it.

Everything, self-hosted

Open-source community edition, self-hosted.

Established

DevExpress · since 2016

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

• 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.

• An open-source edition is unusual in the low-code segment and removes lock-in anxiety.
• Natural-language steps are readable by product owners.
• Web, mobile and API in one authoring model.

• 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.

• Natural-language authoring is only approximately natural; you still learn a grammar.
• Smaller community than the established low-code vendors, so troubleshooting is slower.
• The self-hosted edition trails the cloud on features.

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

Teams that want low-code authoring but refuse to put their entire suite in a proprietary cloud.