Cypress vs mabl

From $75 per month (Cloud, entry team plan)

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You only pay for Cypress Cloud. Costs scale with recorded test results, so a large suite on every PR is the expensive shape.

Quote-based, typically sold as an annual contract sized by test runs and users. Expect mid five figures for a team deployment.

The test runner is free forever. Cypress Cloud free tier covers a limited number of recorded test results per month.

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Cypress.io · since 2017

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mabl · since 2018

• The interactive runner is the best onboarding experience in E2E testing; a new developer writes a passing test in minutes.
• Excellent documentation and one of the largest plugin ecosystems.
• Component testing and E2E in one tool with one config.

• Self-healing genuinely reduces maintenance on UIs that change often.
• Auto-captured visual, performance and accessibility signals on every run without extra setup.
• Very little infrastructure to own — no grid, no runners.

• Runs in the same event loop as your app, which historically meant no multi-tab, multi-origin or iframe-heavy testing without workarounds. Support has improved but the model still constrains you.
• JavaScript and TypeScript only.
• Meaningful parallelisation effectively requires paying for Cypress Cloud.

• Cloud-only. If your application is not reachable from mabl's infrastructure, the setup gets complicated.
• Complex conditional logic hits the ceiling of the low-code model.
• Opaque pricing and a substantial minimum commitment.

Front-end teams who value developer experience and live in a single-origin JavaScript app.

Mid-market teams that want broad automated coverage without hiring an automation team.