Testing · pricing
Vitest pricing
Vitest 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
Vitest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitest | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Vitest stops being free
Vitest, Free
- Full functionality
- Unlimited tests
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Vitest lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Vitest 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
- Shares Vite config
- Jest-compatible API
- Fast watch mode
- ESM and TypeScript native
People bring Vitest in for unit testing an application already built with vite, without a second build config, migrating from jest for faster watch-mode feedback, testing typescript and esm code without transform configuration. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Vitest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitest (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Selenium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Vitest |
| Puppeteer | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Vitest |
| BugHerd | Free, then $50/month | subscription | - | vs Vitest |
| Zephyr Scale | On request | quote | - | vs Vitest |
| BrowserStack | $12.5/month | subscription | - | vs Vitest |
| CircleCI | Free, then $15/month | subscription | - | vs Vitest |
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 Vitest badges page.
Before you pay for Vitest
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.
Vitest runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by Vitest of Open source project. The full record is on the Vitest review, and the rest of the category is under best testing tools.
Vitest pricing questions
- How much does Vitest cost?
- Vitest publishes a single tier, Vitest, at Free.
- Does Vitest have a free plan?
- Yes. The Vitest 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 Vitest have a free tier: Selenium, Puppeteer, BugHerd, CircleCI, Cypress.
- What am I actually paying for with Vitest?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for unit testing an application already built with vite, without a second build config, migrating from jest for faster watch-mode feedback, testing typescript and esm code without transform configuration.
- Does Vitest 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 Vitest 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 Vitest against before paying?
- The closest testing tools in this directory are Selenium, Puppeteer, BugHerd, Zephyr Scale. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Vitest covering price, platforms and features.