TestRail vs Qase

From $37 per seat/month (Professional Cloud, billed annually — $420/year for one user)

From $35 per user/month (Teams, billed annually; $42 monthly)

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

The old Startup tier is gone — it is now Free, Teams and Enterprise. Read-only collaborator seats are $10 each, which keeps the cost down where many people only need to see results.

14-day trial only.

Free plan aimed at students, hobbyists and non-profits: 2 projects, 500 MB storage, 30-day history.

Category standard

Idera · since 2010

Established

Qase · since 2018

• 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.

• Fast, modern interface that testers actually enjoy using.
• Excellent first-party reporters for Playwright, Cypress, pytest and others.
• Free tier makes evaluation and small-team use realistic.

• 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.

• Smaller vendor than Idera or SmartBear; enterprise procurement may push back.
• Fewer enterprise compliance features than the incumbents.
• Jira integration is good but not Jira-native.

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

Startups and mid-market teams that find TestRail overpriced and dated.