TestCafe vs Tricentis Tosca

Free and open source

Quote on request

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

Enterprise licensing only, negotiated annually. Six-figure contracts are normal at scale.

Everything, self-hosted

Established

DevExpress · since 2016

Widely used

Tricentis · since 2007

• 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.

• Unmatched coverage of enterprise packaged software, especially SAP end-to-end processes.
• Model-based design means one change updates every affected test case.
• Risk-based prioritisation is a real answer to eight-hour regression packs.

• 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.

• Expensive, and priced for organisations with a procurement department.
• Steep learning curve; most customers buy consulting alongside the licence.
• Heavy and slow compared to modern code-first tools for plain web applications.

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

Large enterprises running SAP or similar packaged systems where no open-source tool reaches.