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Sauce Labs pricing
Sauce Labs publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Sauce Labs pricing is on request across 4 published tiers. 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
- On request
- Model
- Per month by parallel session count and device category
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Not on record
Sauce Labs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Testing | $39/month | 3 | Entry tier |
| Virtual Device Cloud | $149/month | 3 | +$110/month, 2 more features |
| Real Device Cloud | $199/month | 3 | +$50/month, 2 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Live Testing
$39/monthThe entry tier. It covers annual billing, 49 us dollars a month billed monthly, 1 parallel test, unlimited users and testing minutes, manual cross-browser and mobile app testing.
Virtual Device Cloud
$149/monthOver Live Testing, this tier adds:
- Annual billing, 199 US dollars a month billed monthly
- Automated and manual testing on emulators and simulators
Real Device Cloud
$199/monthOver Virtual Device Cloud, this tier adds:
- Annual billing, 249 US dollars a month billed monthly
- Access to real mobile devices
Enterprise
On requestOver Real Device Cloud, this tier adds:
- Custom parallel session count and pricing
- Sauce AI Test Authoring and Insights agents
- SSO, private device cloud, professional services
What the product covers
The full Sauce Labs 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
- Real device cloud
- Virtual device cloud
- Live manual testing
- Video and log capture
- Sauce AI agents
- Unlimited testing minutes and users
People bring Sauce Labs in for a qa team running selenium or appium test suites that needs cloud device and browser coverage without maintaining a physical lab, a team wanting manual live testing sessions on real devices for exploratory or accessibility testing, an organisation needing video, screenshot and log capture on every automated test run for debugging flaky failures, an enterprise wanting ai-assisted test authoring and insights alongside device cloud execution. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Sauce Labs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauce Labs (this page) | On request | Per month by parallel session count and device category | - | |
| Jest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Sauce Labs |
| Cucumber | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Sauce Labs |
| Percy | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | - | vs Sauce Labs |
| Detox | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Sauce Labs |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Sauce Labs |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | - | vs Sauce Labs |
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 Sauce Labs badges page.
Before you pay for Sauce Labs
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: 4 tiers between $39/month and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Sauce Labs against the tools that do have one before committing.
Sauce Labs runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Sauce Labs Inc of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Sauce Labs review, and the rest of the category is under best testing tools.
Sauce Labs pricing questions
- How much does Sauce Labs cost?
- Sauce Labs publishes 4 tiers, from $39/month for Live Testing up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $39/month.
- Does Sauce Labs have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Sauce Labs is listed as Per month by parallel session count and device category. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Live Testing and Virtual Device Cloud on Sauce Labs?
- Virtual Device Cloud costs $149/month against $39/month, and adds annual billing, 199 us dollars a month billed monthly, automated and manual testing on emulators and simulators.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Sauce Labs worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom parallel session count and pricing, sauce ai test authoring and insights agents, sso, private device cloud, professional services. It costs On request against $39/month for Live Testing. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which testing tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 testing tools listed alongside Sauce Labs have a free tier: Jest, Cucumber, Percy, Detox, Appium.
- What am I actually paying for with Sauce Labs?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a qa team running selenium or appium test suites that needs cloud device and browser coverage without maintaining a physical lab, a team wanting manual live testing sessions on real devices for exploratory or accessibility testing, an organisation needing video, screenshot and log capture on every automated test run for debugging flaky failures.
- Does Sauce Labs charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Sauce Labs 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 Sauce Labs against before paying?
- The closest testing tools in this directory are Jest, Cucumber, Percy, Detox. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Sauce Labs covering price, platforms and features.