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Cucumber pricing
Cucumber publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the testing tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Cucumber pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Cucumber plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cucumber | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Cucumber stops being free
Cucumber, Free
- Full functionality across Cucumber-JVM, Cucumber-JS, Cucumber-Ruby and other implementations
- Community support via GitHub
- Returned to independent community ownership in December 2024 after nine years connected to SmartBear
No paid tier on record
Cucumber lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Cucumber feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Gherkin syntax
- Step definition binding
- Multi-language support
- Living documentation
- Tagging and scenario outlines
- Reporting plugins
People bring Cucumber in for a team practising behaviour-driven development that wants shared, readable specifications between product owners and engineers, an organisation wanting living documentation that stays synchronised with actual test coverage rather than a separate specification document, a qa team migrating acceptance tests from a proprietary bdd tool to an open source, community-governed alternative, a java, javascript or ruby project needing a mature bdd framework rather than building gherkin-style parsing from scratch. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cucumber are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Testing
Too few testing tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cucumber (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Jest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cucumber |
| Percy | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | - | vs Cucumber |
| Detox | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cucumber |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cucumber |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | - | vs Cucumber |
| Katalon | On request | Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges | - | vs Cucumber |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cucumber badges page.
Before you pay for Cucumber
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Cucumber runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by Cucumber open source project of Distributed, no single headquarters. The full record is on the Cucumber review, and the rest of the category is under best testing tools.
Cucumber pricing questions
- How much does Cucumber cost?
- Cucumber publishes a single tier, Cucumber, at Free.
- Does Cucumber have a free plan?
- Yes. The Cucumber tier costs nothing and covers full functionality across cucumber-jvm, cucumber-js, cucumber-ruby and other implementations, community support via github, returned to independent community ownership in december 2024 after nine years connected to smartbear.
- Which testing tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 testing tools listed alongside Cucumber have a free tier: Jest, Percy, Detox, Appium, pytest.
- What am I actually paying for with Cucumber?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a team practising behaviour-driven development that wants shared, readable specifications between product owners and engineers, an organisation wanting living documentation that stays synchronised with actual test coverage rather than a separate specification document, a qa team migrating acceptance tests from a proprietary bdd tool to an open source, community-governed alternative.
- Does Cucumber charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cucumber prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cucumber against before paying?
- The closest testing tools in this directory are Jest, Percy, Detox, Appium. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cucumber covering price, platforms and features.