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Testsigma vs Autify

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

Free tier available

Free tier

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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.

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

Free tier

Apache-2.0 community edition, self-hosted — the GitHub repo is still actively maintained.

Two-week free trial.

Open source

Apache-2.0 (community edition)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

CodelessJava
CodelessJavaScript

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Strengths

  • 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.
  • Very low barrier to a first working suite — recording plus a managed browser cloud.
  • Maintenance burden is genuinely reduced by the self-healing model.
  • Covers web and native mobile from one vendor.

Limitations

  • 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.
  • No self-hosted option.
  • Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
  • Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.

Best for

QA teams that want readable web, mobile and API automation, with a choice of managed cloud or self-hosted deployment.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Slack.

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