Autify vs TestDriver

Quote on request

From $20 per seat/month (120 testing minutes included, then $0.14/minute)

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

The seat price is the small half of the bill: $20 per seat covers 120 testing minutes, then metering kicks in at $0.14 a minute (about $8.40 an hour). Seats are billed for every GitHub user who gets a PR review or runs a test, and a vision model driving a desktop is slower per test than a headless browser — model the minutes before committing a large suite.

Two-week free trial.

Free trial rather than a standing free tier; paid seats include 120 testing minutes a month.

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Niche

TestDriver

• 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.

• Tests surfaces nothing else reaches — browser extensions, packaged desktop apps, canvas and third-party OAuth screens.
• No selectors to maintain, so a refactor that renames every class breaks nothing.
• Runs per pull request in a disposable sandbox rather than against a shared staging environment.

• No self-hosted option.
• Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
• Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.

• A vision model is non-deterministic. Reruns of an unchanged test do not always take the same path, which makes a genuine failure harder to distinguish from a bad frame.
• Billed by testing hours, and driving a real desktop is slow — a suite that costs pennies on Playwright can cost real money here.
• Young product with a small community; expect to be an early reporter of your own bugs.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

Teams testing extensions, desktop apps or canvas-heavy UIs, where selector-based runners simply cannot see the thing under test.