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Reflect vs Testsigma

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 only

Free tier available

Free tier

What 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.

Pro and Enterprise cloud plans use custom pricing. Request a quote for your team's platform coverage and execution needs. The community edition is free to self-host, with infrastructure and maintenance managed by your team.

Free tier

14-day trial.

Apache-2.0 community edition, self-hosted — the GitHub repo is still actively maintained.

Open source

Apache-2.0 (community edition)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

Codeless
CodelessJava

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-market
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Emerging

SmartBear (formerly Reflect Software) · since 2019

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

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.
  • An open-source community edition adds a self-hosted option alongside the managed cloud.
  • Natural-language steps are readable by product owners.
  • Web, mobile and API in one authoring model.

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.
  • Structured natural-language steps use a defined syntax; plan time to learn it during onboarding.
  • The community and cloud editions differ in feature coverage; check the edition against your requirements.

Best for

Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.

QA teams that want readable web, mobile and API automation, with a choice of managed cloud or self-hosted deployment.

All of these integrate with: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Slack, Jira.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.