Chromatic vs Lost Pixel

From $179 per month (Starter, 35k snapshots)

From $100 per month (Startup; Business $250, Scale $670)

Snapshot-based billing: Starter $179 for 35k snapshots, Pro $399 for 85k, then Enterprise. Overage runs about $0.008 a snapshot. TurboSnap, which only re-tests stories affected by a change, is the main cost control. Cross-browser coverage beyond Chrome starts at Starter.

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 with 5,000 billed snapshots a month (25k TurboSnaps), unlimited projects and users.

Open-source runner is free and unlimited when self-hosted, and the hosted platform has a free tier.

Widely used

Chromatic · since 2017

Emerging

Lost Pixel · since 2022

• Zero-effort setup if you already have Storybook — stories are the tests.
• The hosted review UI is genuinely usable by designers and product managers.
• TurboSnap dramatically reduces snapshot cost on large libraries.

• 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.

• Strongly tied to Storybook; without it much of the value disappears.
• Component-level, not full-page — it will not catch a broken page layout.
• Snapshot pricing still adds up on a big design system.

• 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.

Design-system and component-library teams already invested in Storybook.

Existing users planning a move. Argos and Chromatic are the usual destinations.