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TestDriver 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

From $20 per seat/month (120 testing minutes included, then $0.14/minute)

Free tier

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

The seat price is the small half of the bill: $20 per seat covers 120 testing minutes, then metering kicks in at $0.14 a minute (about $8.40 an hour). Seats are billed for every GitHub user who gets a PR review or runs a test, and a vision model driving a desktop is slower per test than a headless browser — model the minutes before committing a large suite.

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

Free tier

Free trial rather than a standing free tier; paid seats include 120 testing minutes a month.

Two-week free trial.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptCodeless
CodelessJavaScript

Platforms

WebDesktop
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Niche

TestDriver

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Strengths

  • Tests surfaces nothing else reaches — browser extensions, packaged desktop apps, canvas and third-party OAuth screens.
  • No selectors to maintain, so a refactor that renames every class breaks nothing.
  • Runs per pull request in a disposable sandbox rather than against a shared staging environment.
  • 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

  • A vision model is non-deterministic. Reruns of an unchanged test do not always take the same path, which makes a genuine failure harder to distinguish from a bad frame.
  • Billed by testing hours, and driving a real desktop is slow — a suite that costs pennies on Playwright can cost real money here.
  • Young product with a small community; expect to be an early reporter of your own bugs.
  • No self-hosted option.
  • Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
  • Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.

Best for

Teams testing extensions, desktop apps or canvas-heavy UIs, where selector-based runners simply cannot see the thing under test.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

All of these integrate with: GitHub Actions, Slack.

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