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Jest pricing
Jest 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, Jest 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
Jest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jest | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Jest stops being free
Jest, Free
- Full functionality, no usage limits
- Community support via GitHub and Discord
- No paid tier or enterprise edition exists
No paid tier on record
Jest lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Jest 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
- Zero-config test runner
- Snapshot testing
- Built-in mocking
- Parallel test execution
- Code coverage reporting
- Watch mode
People bring Jest in for a react or general javascript project wanting a zero-configuration test runner with mocking and snapshot testing built in, a team that wants confidence in long-term maintenance because the project sits under a vendor-neutral foundation rather than one company, an existing jest codebase deciding whether to migrate to vitest for a vite-based build, weighing migration cost against vitest's faster esm-native startup, a team standardising on one test runner across many javascript repositories without paying a per-seat or per-project licence fee. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Jest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jest (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Cucumber | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Jest |
| Percy | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | - | vs Jest |
| Detox | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Jest |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Jest |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | - | vs Jest |
| Katalon | On request | Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges | - | vs Jest |
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 Jest badges page.
Before you pay for Jest
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.
Jest runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by OpenJS Foundation of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Jest review, and the rest of the category is under best testing tools.
Jest pricing questions
- How much does Jest cost?
- Jest publishes a single tier, Jest, at Free.
- Does Jest have a free plan?
- Yes. The Jest tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community support via github and discord, no paid tier or enterprise edition exists.
- Which testing tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 testing tools listed alongside Jest have a free tier: Cucumber, Percy, Detox, Appium, pytest.
- What am I actually paying for with Jest?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a react or general javascript project wanting a zero-configuration test runner with mocking and snapshot testing built in, a team that wants confidence in long-term maintenance because the project sits under a vendor-neutral foundation rather than one company, an existing jest codebase deciding whether to migrate to vitest for a vite-based build, weighing migration cost against vitest's faster esm-native startup.
- Does Jest 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 Jest 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 Jest against before paying?
- The closest testing tools in this directory are Cucumber, Percy, Detox, Appium. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Jest covering price, platforms and features.