Autify vs Testim
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
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Quote onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.
Quote-based beyond the free tier; priced by annual test runs.
Free tier
Two-week free trial.
Free plan with a limited monthly run allowance.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Autify, Inc. · since 2016
Established
Tricentis · since 2014
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.
- Smart locators handle everyday UI churn well.
- The escape hatch to real JavaScript keeps complex cases possible.
- Reusable shared steps keep large recorded suites maintainable.
Limitations
- No self-hosted option.
- Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
- Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.
- Test logic lives in the vendor's cloud rather than your repository, which complicates review and branching.
- Run-based pricing punishes running the full suite on every commit.
- Post-acquisition roadmap is bound to the wider Tricentis strategy.
Best for
Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.
Teams with fast-changing UIs that need maintenance to stay low.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Slack, CircleCI, Jenkins, TestRail.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.