Testiny vs Zephyr Scale

Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.

TestinyZephyr Scale

Entry price

From €15 per user/month (indicative)

Free tier

From $10 per user/month (indicative, Atlassian Marketplace tiers)

Paid

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

EU-hosted with an on-premise option; transparent published pricing.

Like Xray, priced per Jira user via the Marketplace. Zephyr Squad is a cheaper, lighter sibling product.

Free tier

Free for small teams.

30-day trial.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

Codeless

Platforms

WebAPI

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-market

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Emerging

Testiny · since 2022

Widely used

SmartBear · since 2016

Strengths

Purpose-built case repository with parameterisation and shared steps that scale better than issue-based storage.
Cross-project reporting for programme-level quality visibility.
Version history on test cases, which matters for audit.

Limitations

Two similarly named products (Squad and Scale) cause genuine purchasing confusion.
Still bound to Jira's performance envelope.
Per-Jira-user pricing again inflates cost for large organisations.

Best for

European small and mid-sized teams wanting simple test management with local data residency.

Larger Jira organisations with test libraries big enough that reuse matters.

All of these integrate with: Jira, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.