Applitools Eyes vs Lost Pixel

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From $100 per month (Startup; Business $250, Scale $670)

Quote-based enterprise pricing by checkpoints. Typically the most expensive option in the category.

The hosted tiers are still listed and priced by monthly screenshots, but the site carries a sunset banner — do not start here. The MIT-licensed runner still works self-hosted, though its repository is archived.

Free tier for individual developers with a monthly checkpoint allowance.

Open-source runner is free and unlimited when self-hosted, and the hosted platform has a free tier.

Widely used

Applitools · since 2013

Emerging

Lost Pixel · since 2022

• The lowest false-positive rate in the category — the reason teams migrate to it from pixel-diff tools.
• Ultrafast Grid replaces a lot of cross-browser execution with one render pass.
• Root-cause analysis points at the DOM/CSS change behind a visual diff.

• The self-hosted runner keeps working and its baselines live in your repo, so a sunset does not strand your tests.
• Works with Storybook and with plain page URLs.
• Clean GitHub Actions integration.

• Expensive, and priced opaquely.
• Substantial platform to learn beyond simple snapshot comparison.
• Overkill if you have twenty pages and a stable design.

• Being sunset: the team joined Figma in April 2026 and no shutdown date for the hosted platform has been published.
• Fewer browser and device permutations than the incumbents.
• Less sophisticated diffing than Applitools' visual AI.

Enterprises where visual correctness across many browsers is a business requirement.

Existing users planning a move. Argos and Chromatic are the usual destinations.