Testim vs Reflect
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 onlyFree tier available
Trial onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Quote-based beyond the free tier; priced by annual test runs.
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.
Free tier
Free plan with a limited monthly run allowance.
14-day trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Tricentis · since 2014
Emerging
SmartBear (formerly Reflect Software) · since 2019
Strengths
- Smart locators handle everyday UI churn well.
- The escape hatch to real JavaScript keeps complex cases possible.
- Reusable shared steps keep large recorded suites maintainable.
- 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.
Limitations
- Test logic lives in the vendor's cloud rather than your repository, which complicates review and branching.
- Run-based pricing punishes running the full suite on every commit.
- Post-acquisition roadmap is bound to the wider Tricentis strategy.
- 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.
Best for
Teams with fast-changing UIs that need maintenance to stay low.
Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins, CircleCI, Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.