Autify vs Waldo
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.
No longer priced as Waldo — it is part of a Tricentis Mobile quote, which is an enterprise sales conversation rather than the self-serve signup Waldo once had.
Free tier
Two-week free trial.
Free trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Autify, Inc. · since 2016
Emerging
Tricentis (formerly Waldo) · 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.
- No SDK and no code — a designer or PM can record a regression flow.
- Self-healing keeps recorded flows working across releases.
- Runs on every build without device lab management.
Limitations
- No self-hosted option.
- Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
- Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.
- You can no longer buy Waldo as such — it is a component of Tricentis Mobile, sold on an enterprise contract.
- Limited support for complex logic or data-driven scenarios.
- Cloud-only.
Best for
Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.
Tricentis customers extending into mobile. Small teams that wanted Waldo's self-serve simplicity should look at Maestro instead.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Slack, CircleCI, GitHub Actions.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.