QMetry Test Management vs Qase
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
Quote on request
Quote onlyFrom $35 per user/month (Teams, billed annually; $42 monthly)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise quote-based pricing; Marketplace tiers exist for the Jira app.
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.
Free tier
Free trial.
Free plan aimed at students, hobbyists and non-profits: 2 projects, 500 MB storage, 30-day history.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
SmartBear · since 2008
Established
Qase · since 2018
Strengths
- Strong analytics and programme-level reporting.
- Modular reusable test assets designed for very large libraries.
- Established in regulated industries with audit requirements.
- 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.
Limitations
- Heavy interface with a real learning curve.
- Enterprise pricing and sales process.
- Overkill for teams under about fifty people.
- 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.
Best for
Large enterprises with formal QA governance and audit obligations.
Startups and mid-market teams that find TestRail overpriced and dated.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.