Autify vs Reflect
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
Quote on request
Quote onlyFree tier available
Trial onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.
Now sold on a credit model — Premium 5,000 credits a month, Advanced 20,000, Enterprise 40,000, all with unlimited users — and SmartBear does not publish the prices, so you need a quote. Credits are consumed by test runs, so concurrency and suite size drive the bill.
Free tier
Two-week free trial.
14-day trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Autify, Inc. · since 2016
Emerging
SmartBear (formerly Reflect Software) · since 2019
Strengths
- Very low barrier to a first working suite — recording plus a managed browser cloud.
- Maintenance burden is genuinely reduced by the self-healing model.
- Covers web and native mobile from one vendor.
- Nothing to install; a non-technical colleague can record a regression test in ten minutes.
- Handles file uploads, iframes and email verification, which trip up many no-code tools.
- Transparent published pricing, which is rare in this segment.
Limitations
- No self-hosted option.
- Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
- Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.
- Cloud-only, so testing a private environment requires network work.
- Not suited to very large suites or heavy conditional logic.
- Small vendor — check longevity if this becomes critical infrastructure.
Best for
Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.
Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Slack, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.