Testmo vs Xray

From $59 per month (Team, 5 users included)

From $10 per month flat for up to 10 users ($100/year)

Priced per bundle of users rather than strictly per seat — Team $59 for 5 users, Business $249 for 15, Enterprise $599 for 25 — which suits teams where many people need read access.

Priced through the Atlassian Marketplace by Jira user tier. Above the 10-user flat tier it works out around $6.07/user/month (e.g. $7,280/year for 100 users) and falls to roughly $3/user/month by 500 users. It bills for every Jira user, not just testers.

21-day trial.

30-day trial via Atlassian Marketplace.

Emerging

Testmo · since 2021

Category standard

Xblend / Xpand IT · since 2014

• Exploratory session management is a genuine gap in most competing tools.
• Very fast interface, built for keyboard-driven work.
• Handles manual and automated results as first-class citizens.

• Complete requirement-to-test-to-defect traceability without leaving Jira.
• No second tool for the team to learn or license separately.
• Strong BDD support with Gherkin scenarios stored as Jira issues.

• Small vendor with a modest ecosystem.
• Fewer compliance and audit features for regulated industries.
• No free tier.

• Inherits Jira's performance characteristics; large test executions are slow.
• Billing per Jira user means non-QA staff inflate the cost.
• Test case authoring in Jira issue screens is clumsy compared to purpose-built editors.

Teams that do meaningful exploratory testing alongside scripted and automated tests.

Organisations standardised on Jira that want a single system of record.