Testsigma vs Cypress

Free tier available

From $75 per month (Cloud Team, month-to-month; $799/year works out at $67)

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.

You only pay for Cypress Cloud. Team is $75 month-to-month or $799/year; Business is $3,199/year. Costs scale with recorded test results, so a large suite on every PR is the expensive shape.

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

The test runner is free forever. Cypress Cloud free tier covers a limited number of recorded test results per month.

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

Category standard

Cypress.io · since 2017

• 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.

• The interactive runner is the best onboarding experience in E2E testing; a new developer writes a passing test in minutes.
• Excellent documentation and one of the largest plugin ecosystems.
• Component testing and E2E in one tool with one config.

• 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.

• Runs in the same event loop as your app, which historically meant no multi-tab, multi-origin or iframe-heavy testing without workarounds. Support has improved but the model still constrains you.
• JavaScript and TypeScript only.
• Meaningful parallelisation effectively requires paying for Cypress Cloud.

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

Front-end teams who value developer experience and live in a single-origin JavaScript app.