Argos vs Lost Pixel
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
From $100 per month (Pro, usage-based, 35k screenshots included)
Free tierFrom $100 per month (Startup; Business $250, Scale $670)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Pro is usage-based from $100/month including 35,000 screenshots, with extras at $0.004 each ($0.0015 for Storybook). SSO is a paid add-on: $50/month for GitHub, $200/month for SAML.
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
Hobby plan is free forever with up to 5,000 screenshots; free for open-source projects.
Open-source runner is free and unlimited when self-hosted, and the hosted platform has a free tier.
Open source
MIT
MIT (core)
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Argos · since 2017
Emerging
Lost Pixel · since 2022
Strengths
- Clean, fast PR review experience.
- Genuinely affordable, with a workable free tier.
- Open source, so self-hosting is a real fallback.
- 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.
Limitations
- Fewer integrations than Percy or Applitools.
- Small team behind it.
- Limited cross-browser rendering options.
- 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.
Best for
Small and mid-sized teams wanting visual review in PRs at a sane price.
Existing users planning a move. Argos and Chromatic are the usual destinations.
All of these integrate with: Playwright, Storybook.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.