Qase vs Testmo
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 $35 per user/month (Teams, billed annually; $42 monthly)
Free tierFrom $59 per month (Team, 5 users included)
PaidWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
The old Startup tier is gone — it is now Free, Teams and Enterprise. Read-only collaborator seats are $10 each, which keeps the cost down where many people only need to see results.
Priced per bundle of users rather than strictly per seat — Team $59 for 5 users, Business $249 for 15, Enterprise $599 for 25 — which suits teams where many people need read access.
Free tier
Free plan aimed at students, hobbyists and non-profits: 2 projects, 500 MB storage, 30-day history.
21-day trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Qase · since 2018
Emerging
Testmo · since 2021
Strengths
- Fast, modern interface that testers actually enjoy using.
- Excellent first-party reporters for Playwright, Cypress, pytest and others.
- Free tier makes evaluation and small-team use realistic.
- Exploratory session management is a genuine gap in most competing tools.
- Very fast interface, built for keyboard-driven work.
- Handles manual and automated results as first-class citizens.
Limitations
- Smaller vendor than Idera or SmartBear; enterprise procurement may push back.
- Fewer enterprise compliance features than the incumbents.
- Jira integration is good but not Jira-native.
- Small vendor with a modest ecosystem.
- Fewer compliance and audit features for regulated industries.
- No free tier.
Best for
Startups and mid-market teams that find TestRail overpriced and dated.
Teams that do meaningful exploratory testing alongside scripted and automated tests.
All of these integrate with: Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.