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Detox pricing
Detox 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, Detox 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
Detox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detox | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Detox stops being free
Detox, Free
- Full functionality, no usage limits
- Community support via GitHub
- Built and maintained by Wix for its own internal React Native testing needs
No paid tier on record
Detox lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Detox 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
- Gray-box synchronisation
- React Native native integration
- Real device and simulator support
- Jest integration
- Element matching and actions
- CI-friendly execution
People bring Detox in for a react native team wanting end-to-end tests that reliably wait for real app state rather than fixed sleep delays, a ci pipeline running mobile end-to-end tests that need to be genuinely reliable, not flaky, to avoid blocking merges on false failures, a team migrating from appium-based react native testing wanting tighter synchronisation with the app's async internals, an engineering organisation wanting a free, actively used-in-production framework rather than a lightly maintained side project. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Detox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detox (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Jest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Detox |
| Cucumber | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Detox |
| Percy | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | - | vs Detox |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Detox |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | - | vs Detox |
| Katalon | On request | Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges | - | vs Detox |
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 Detox badges page.
Before you pay for Detox
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.
Detox runs on ios, android, and is published by Wix.com Ltd of Tel Aviv, Israel. The full record is on the Detox review, and the rest of the category is under best testing tools.
Detox pricing questions
- How much does Detox cost?
- Detox publishes a single tier, Detox, at Free.
- Does Detox have a free plan?
- Yes. The Detox tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community support via github, built and maintained by wix for its own internal react native testing needs.
- Which testing tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 testing tools listed alongside Detox have a free tier: Jest, Cucumber, Percy, Appium, pytest.
- What am I actually paying for with Detox?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a react native team wanting end-to-end tests that reliably wait for real app state rather than fixed sleep delays, a ci pipeline running mobile end-to-end tests that need to be genuinely reliable, not flaky, to avoid blocking merges on false failures, a team migrating from appium-based react native testing wanting tighter synchronisation with the app's async internals.
- Does Detox 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 Detox 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 Detox against before paying?
- The closest testing tools in this directory are Jest, Cucumber, Percy, Appium. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Detox covering price, platforms and features.