Lost Pixel vs Argos
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
From $100 per month (Startup; Business $250, Scale $670)
Free tierFrom $100 per month (Pro, usage-based, 35k screenshots included)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
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.
Pro is usage-based from $100/month including 35,000 screenshots, with extras at $0.004 each ($0.0015 for Storybook). SSO is a paid add-on: $50/month for GitHub, $200/month for SAML.
Free tier
Open-source runner is free and unlimited when self-hosted, and the hosted platform has a free tier.
Hobby plan is free forever with up to 5,000 screenshots; free for open-source projects.
Open source
MIT (core)
MIT
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Lost Pixel · since 2022
Emerging
Argos · since 2017
Strengths
- 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.
- Clean, fast PR review experience.
- Genuinely affordable, with a workable free tier.
- Open source, so self-hosting is a real fallback.
Limitations
- 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.
- Fewer integrations than Percy or Applitools.
- Small team behind it.
- Limited cross-browser rendering options.
Best for
Existing users planning a move. Argos and Chromatic are the usual destinations.
Small and mid-sized teams wanting visual review in PRs at a sane price.
All of these integrate with: Storybook, Playwright.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.