Reflect vs Autify
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
Free tier available
Trial onlyQuote on request
Quote onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Now sold on a credit model — Premium 5,000 credits a month, Advanced 20,000, Enterprise 40,000, all with unlimited users — and SmartBear does not publish the prices, so you need a quote. Credits are consumed by test runs, so concurrency and suite size drive the bill.
Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.
Free tier
14-day trial.
Two-week free trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
SmartBear (formerly Reflect Software) · since 2019
Emerging
Autify, Inc. · since 2016
Strengths
- Nothing to install; a non-technical colleague can record a regression test in ten minutes.
- Handles file uploads, iframes and email verification, which trip up many no-code tools.
- Transparent published pricing, which is rare in this segment.
- Very low barrier to a first working suite — recording plus a managed browser cloud.
- Maintenance burden is genuinely reduced by the self-healing model.
- Covers web and native mobile from one vendor.
Limitations
- Cloud-only, so testing a private environment requires network work.
- Not suited to very large suites or heavy conditional logic.
- Small vendor — check longevity if this becomes critical infrastructure.
- No self-hosted option.
- Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
- Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.
Best for
Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.
Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.
All of these integrate with: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Slack, Jira.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.