Testsigma vs Playwright

From $349 per month (indicative, cloud pro)

Free and open source

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

Free and open source. Microsoft also sells a hosted parallel-runner service; the library itself has no paid tier.

Open-source community edition, self-hosted.

Everything, self-hosted

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

Category standard

Microsoft · since 2020

• 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.

• Auto-waiting and web-first assertions remove most of the sleep() flake that plagues older tools.
• The trace viewer — DOM snapshots, network, console and screenshots per step — is the best failure triage in the category.
• True WebKit support, so Safari bugs are caught on Linux CI without a Mac.

• 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.

• No native mobile app support. Mobile means an emulated viewport, not a real device.
• The API surface is large; teams without a conventions document end up with four ways to write the same locator.
• Component testing is still experimental compared to the E2E runner.

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

Teams that write their own tests and want the lowest-flake open-source option available.