TestRail vs Allure TestOps

From $38 per user/month (Professional Cloud, billed annually)

From $30 per user/month (indicative)

Per-user pricing with no free tier; the self-hosted server edition is licensed separately.

Self-hosted and cloud options; the underlying Allure Report remains free open source.

14-day trial only.

Free tier for small teams; Allure Report itself is open source.

Category standard

Idera · since 2010

Established

Qameta Software · since 2019

• Mature, dependable and familiar — most QA professionals have used it.
• Reporting and milestone tracking are genuinely good for stakeholder communication.
• Solid API for pushing automated results in.

• Best-in-class handling of automated results — live ingestion, history, flakiness tracking.
• Builds on Allure Report, which many teams already generate.
• Self-hosting available for regulated environments.

• Per-user pricing gets expensive when the whole team needs visibility.
• The interface has aged and feels heavy compared to newer entrants.
• Jira integration is competent but not as deep as Jira-native tools.

• Manual testing features are weaker than in manual-first tools.
• Requires an existing automation culture to deliver value.
• Smaller vendor and community.

Established QA teams that need a reliable, well-understood system of record.

Automation-heavy teams that want test management shaped around CI rather than manual cases.