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Alternatives to Percy
21 testing tools sit alongside Percy in this directory. Below is what separates each from Percy on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 11
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Percy starts at
- Free
Why people look past Percy
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Percy has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
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.
AI-based visual regression testing, priced on component and page checkpoint volume
- No free tier, where Percy has one.
- Sold on a Per month by checkpoint volume model rather than Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume.
- 3 tiers to Percy's 2.
Real device cloud for web and mobile testing
- No free tier, where Percy has one.
- Publishes an entry price of $12.5/month, where Percy does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume.
- 10 tiers to Percy's 2.
JavaScript end-to-end testing framework with browser-based runner and cloud service
- Publishes an entry price of $67/month, where Percy does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume.
- 5 tiers to Percy's 2.
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, paid tiers by screenshot volume.
- 1 tier to Percy's 2.
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, paid tiers by screenshot volume.
- 1 tier to Percy's 2.
The default Java unit testing framework, developed by an independent team with commercial support available via OpenElements
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume.
- 1 tier to Percy's 2.
Every Percy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percy (this page) | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | 2 | |
| ApplitoolsIf you want AI-based visual comparison with fewer false positives and are willing to pay more per checkpoint | On request | Per month by checkpoint volume | 3 | vs Percy |
| BrowserStackIf you want the core device and browser testing product Percy is sold alongside | $12.5/month | Subscription | 10 | vs Percy |
| CypressIf your priority is functional end-to-end testing with visual checks as a secondary concern | Free, then $67/month | Freemium | 5 | vs Percy |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| Detox | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| JUnit | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| WebdriverIO | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| Jest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| Cucumber | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| TestNG | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| pytest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Percy |
| GrowthBook | Free, then $40/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Percy |
| Qase | Free | Per user per month | 2 | vs Percy |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | 2 | vs Percy |
| Ranorex | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Percy |
| Xray Test Management | On request | Per Jira user per month, tiered to total instance size | 3 | vs Percy |
| Katalon | On request | Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges | 3 | vs Percy |
| Sauce Labs | On request | Per month by parallel session count and device category | 4 | vs Percy |
| Kameleoon | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Percy |
| Split | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Percy |
| mabl | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Percy |
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 Percy badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Percy is most often brought in for a team already on browserstack for device testing that wants to add visual regression without a separate vendor relationship, a low-traffic project that can run indefinitely on the 5,000-screenshot free tier without paying anything, a team wanting a lower cost per screenshot than applitools and willing to tolerate more manual false-positive triage, a cypress or playwright test suite adding visual checks without changing its existing test runner. 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 Percy is broadly right and the question is cost, the Percy 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.
Percy runs on web. 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 Percy alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Percy?
- 21 other testing tools are listed in this directory, led by Applitools, BrowserStack, Cypress, Appium. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Percy?
- 11 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Cypress, Appium, Detox, JUnit, WebdriverIO.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Percy?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Percy has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Percy?
- Percy is most often brought in for a team already on browserstack for device testing that wants to add visual regression without a separate vendor relationship, a low-traffic project that can run indefinitely on the 5,000-screenshot free tier without paying anything, a team wanting a lower cost per screenshot than applitools and willing to tolerate more manual false-positive triage, a cypress or playwright test suite adding visual checks without changing its existing test runner. 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 Percy?
- 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 Percy 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 Percy against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Percy 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, 21 tools beside Percy. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.