Qase vs Xray

From $35 per user/month (Teams, billed annually; $42 monthly)

From $10 per month flat for up to 10 users ($100/year)

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 through the Atlassian Marketplace by Jira user tier. Above the 10-user flat tier it works out around $6.07/user/month (e.g. $7,280/year for 100 users) and falls to roughly $3/user/month by 500 users. It bills for every Jira user, not just testers.

Free plan aimed at students, hobbyists and non-profits: 2 projects, 500 MB storage, 30-day history.

30-day trial via Atlassian Marketplace.

Established

Qase · since 2018

Category standard

Xblend / Xpand IT · since 2014

• 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.

• Complete requirement-to-test-to-defect traceability without leaving Jira.
• No second tool for the team to learn or license separately.
• Strong BDD support with Gherkin scenarios stored as Jira issues.

• 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.

• Inherits Jira's performance characteristics; large test executions are slow.
• Billing per Jira user means non-QA staff inflate the cost.
• Test case authoring in Jira issue screens is clumsy compared to purpose-built editors.

Startups and mid-market teams that find TestRail overpriced and dated.

Organisations standardised on Jira that want a single system of record.