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Testim 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

Quote on request

Quote only

Free tier available

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Quote-based beyond the free tier; priced by annual test runs.

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

Free plan with a limited monthly run allowance.

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

CodelessJavaScript
CodelessJava

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Established

Tricentis · since 2014

Established

Testsigma Inc. · 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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

Teams with fast-changing UIs that need maintenance to stay low.

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: Jira, Jenkins, Slack.

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