Testing · pricing
Puppeteer pricing
Puppeteer publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the testing tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Puppeteer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puppeteer | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Puppeteer stops being free
Puppeteer, Free
- Full functionality
- Unlimited tests
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Puppeteer lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Puppeteer 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
- DevTools Protocol
- Headless by default
- PDF and screenshots
- Network interception
People bring Puppeteer in for generating pdfs or screenshots of rendered pages on a server, scraping sites that require javascript execution, automating browser tasks where a full test framework is unnecessary. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Puppeteer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppeteer (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Selenium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Puppeteer |
| Vitest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Puppeteer |
| BugHerd | Free, then $50/month | subscription | - | vs Puppeteer |
| Zephyr Scale | On request | quote | - | vs Puppeteer |
| BrowserStack | $12.5/month | subscription | - | vs Puppeteer |
| CircleCI | Free, then $15/month | subscription | - | vs Puppeteer |
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 Puppeteer badges page.
Before you pay for Puppeteer
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.
Puppeteer runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by Google of Mountain View, California, United States. The full record is on the Puppeteer review, and the rest of the category is under best testing tools.
Puppeteer pricing questions
- How much does Puppeteer cost?
- Puppeteer publishes a single tier, Puppeteer, at Free.
- Does Puppeteer have a free plan?
- Yes. The Puppeteer tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, unlimited tests, community support.
- Which testing tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 testing tools listed alongside Puppeteer have a free tier: Selenium, Vitest, BugHerd, CircleCI, Cypress.
- What am I actually paying for with Puppeteer?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for generating pdfs or screenshots of rendered pages on a server, scraping sites that require javascript execution, automating browser tasks where a full test framework is unnecessary.
- Does Puppeteer 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 Puppeteer 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 Puppeteer against before paying?
- The closest testing tools in this directory are Selenium, Vitest, BugHerd, Zephyr Scale. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Puppeteer covering price, platforms and features.