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Alternatives to Cypress
24 testing tools sit alongside Cypress in this directory. Below is what separates each from Cypress on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 14
- Cheaper to start
- 5
- Cypress starts at
- Free, then $67/month
Why people look past Cypress
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Cypress entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
It costs more than the category median
Cypress starts at $67/month. Across the 4 testing tools listed beside it that publish a price, the median entry point is $27.5/month.
Cost climbs steeply across the tiers
Cypress publishes 5 tiers, from Free up to On request. Teams that outgrow the entry plan can find the next rung a large step, the Cypress pricing page breaks each one down.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
REST and GraphQL API client for development and testing
- Starts $67 a month cheaper, at Free.
- 3 tiers to Cypress's 5.
Real device cloud for web and mobile testing
- No free tier, where Cypress has one.
- Starts $54.5 a month cheaper, at $12.5/month.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 10 tiers to Cypress's 5.
Visual feedback and bug tracking for websites
- Starts $17 a month cheaper, at $50/month.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 4 tiers to Cypress's 5.
The leading CI/CD platform
- Starts $52 a month cheaper, at $15/month.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 3 tiers to Cypress's 5.
Open source mobile automation framework hosted under the OpenJS Foundation with copyright assigned to the foundation
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than freemium.
- 1 tier to Cypress's 5.
Open source end-to-end testing framework for React Native apps, built and maintained by Wix
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than freemium.
- 1 tier to Cypress's 5.
Every Cypress alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress (this page) | Free, then $67/month | Freemium | 5 | |
| InsomniaREST and GraphQL API client for development and testing | Free | Freemium | 3 | vs Cypress |
| BrowserStackReal device cloud for web and mobile testing | $12.5/month | Subscription | 10 | vs Cypress |
| BugHerdVisual feedback and bug tracking for websites | Free, then $50/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Cypress |
| CircleCIThe leading CI/CD platform | Free, then $15/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Cypress |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| Detox | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| JUnit | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| WebdriverIO | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| Jest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| Cucumber | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| TestNG | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| pytest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Cypress |
| Percy | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | 2 | vs Cypress |
| GrowthBook | Free, then $40/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Cypress |
| Qase | Free | Per user per month | 2 | vs Cypress |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | 2 | vs Cypress |
| Ranorex | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cypress |
| Xray Test Management | On request | Per Jira user per month, tiered to total instance size | 3 | vs Cypress |
| Katalon | On request | Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges | 3 | vs Cypress |
| Sauce Labs | On request | Per month by parallel session count and device category | 4 | vs Cypress |
| Applitools | On request | Per month by checkpoint volume | 3 | vs Cypress |
| Kameleoon | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cypress |
| Split | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Cypress |
| mabl | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cypress |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Cypress badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Cheaper than Cypress (5)
Entry price under Cypress's $67/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Insomnia , Free
- BrowserStack , $12.5/month
- BugHerd , Free, then $50/month
- CircleCI , Free, then $15/month
- GrowthBook , Free, then $40/month
What you would be giving up
Cypress is most often brought in for end-to-end testing for modern javascript web applications, continuous integration pipelines with parallelised test execution, visual regression testing and accessibility verification, flaky test detection and elimination, team collaboration on test maintenance and debugging. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Cypress is broadly right and the question is cost, the Cypress pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Testing category lists everything the directory holds, and best testing tools ranks them.
Cypress runs on macos, windows, linux. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Cypress alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Cypress?
- 24 other testing tools are listed in this directory, led by Insomnia, BrowserStack, BugHerd, CircleCI. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Cypress?
- 14 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Insomnia, BugHerd, CircleCI, Appium, Detox.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Cypress?
- Yes. 5 of the alternatives below start under Cypress's $67/month: Insomnia at Free, BrowserStack at $12.5/month, BugHerd at Free, then $50/month, CircleCI at Free, then $15/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Cypress?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: it costs more than the category median; cost climbs steeply across the tiers. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Cypress?
- Cypress is most often brought in for end-to-end testing for modern javascript web applications, continuous integration pipelines with parallelised test execution, visual regression testing and accessibility verification, flaky test detection and elimination, team collaboration on test maintenance and debugging. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Cypress?
- None of the testing tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Cypress alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Testing, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Cypress against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Cypress covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every testing tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Testing category, 24 tools beside Cypress. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.