Firebase Test Lab vs Waldo

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

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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.

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.

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.

Widely used

Google · since 2016

Emerging

Tricentis (formerly Waldo) · since 2019

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

Tricentis customers extending into mobile. Small teams that wanted Waldo's self-serve simplicity should look at Maestro instead.