Jasmine vs PHPUnit
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
Free and open source
Open sourceFree and open source
Open sourceWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.
Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.
Free tier
Everything, self-hosted
Everything, self-hosted
Open source
MIT
BSD-3-Clause
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
OSS community · since 2010
Category standard
Sebastian Bergmann · since 2004
Strengths
- Self-contained: spies, clocks and matchers with no extra packages.
- Runs directly in a browser without bundling.
- Extremely stable API — old suites keep working.
- Universal in PHP — every framework builds on it.
- Mature mocking, data providers and coverage integration.
- Well documented and extremely stable.
Limitations
- Feels dated; snapshot testing and modern mocking are absent or bolted on.
- Momentum has moved to Jest and Vitest, including within the Angular ecosystem.
- Weaker TypeScript ergonomics than newer runners.
- Major versions drop older PHP releases aggressively, forcing upgrade work.
- Verbose compared to newer wrappers such as Pest.
- Coverage requires an extension, which slows runs significantly.
Best for
Existing Angular codebases and browser-native test setups.
Every PHP project, directly or through a wrapper.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.