QMetry Test Management vs Xray
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 $10 per month flat for up to 10 users ($100/year)
PaidWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise quote-based pricing; Marketplace tiers exist for the Jira app.
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 tier
Free trial.
30-day trial via Atlassian Marketplace.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
SmartBear · since 2008
Category standard
Xblend / Xpand IT · since 2014
Strengths
- Strong analytics and programme-level reporting.
- Modular reusable test assets designed for very large libraries.
- Established in regulated industries with audit requirements.
- 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.
Limitations
- Heavy interface with a real learning curve.
- Enterprise pricing and sales process.
- Overkill for teams under about fifty people.
- 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.
Best for
Large enterprises with formal QA governance and audit obligations.
Organisations standardised on Jira that want a single system of record.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Selenium, Cucumber.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.