Firebase Test Lab vs Kobiton

From $1 per virtual device hour (physical devices are $5/hour)

From $83 per month (Startup, 500 device minutes)

Pay-as-you-go on the Blaze plan, billed to the nearest minute. Physical devices cost five times virtual ones, which is the number that actually shapes a bill. Android Device Streaming is separate: 30 free minutes per project per month, then $0.15 a minute.

Startup includes 500 device minutes a month; Accelerate is $399 for 3,000. Priced by device minutes and concurrent sessions, and the on-premise hybrid option is licensed separately.

Spark plan: 10 virtual-device tests a day (up to 60 free minutes) and 5 physical-device tests a day (up to 30 free minutes).

Free trial with limited device minutes.

Widely used

Google · since 2016

Emerging

Kobiton · since 2016

• Very cheap per device hour compared with commercial device clouds.
• Robo Test finds crashes with zero test-writing effort.
• Tight integration with Android tooling and Firebase Crashlytics.

• Hybrid model lets you keep sensitive devices in-house while using one interface.
• Manual session recording converts into Appium scripts, shortening authoring.
• Cheaper than the top-tier enterprise clouds.

• Device selection is far narrower than a dedicated device cloud.
• iOS support is meaningfully thinner than Android.
• No interactive manual testing session.

• Smaller device catalogue than BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
• Generated Appium scripts still need substantial cleanup.
• Mobile only.

Android-first teams that want real-device coverage at the lowest cost.

Mobile teams that want a device cloud but must keep some devices on premises.