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Testsigma vs Reflect

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

Free tier available

Trial 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.

Now sold on a credit model — Premium 5,000 credits a month, Advanced 20,000, Enterprise 40,000, all with unlimited users — and SmartBear does not publish the prices, so you need a quote. Credits are consumed by test runs, so concurrency and suite size drive the bill.

Free tier

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

14-day trial.

Open source

Apache-2.0 (community edition)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

CodelessJava
Codeless

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPI

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
StartupScale-up / mid-market

Adoption

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

Emerging

SmartBear (formerly Reflect Software) · since 2019

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.
  • Nothing to install; a non-technical colleague can record a regression test in ten minutes.
  • Handles file uploads, iframes and email verification, which trip up many no-code tools.
  • Transparent published pricing, which is rare in this segment.

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.
  • Cloud-only, so testing a private environment requires network work.
  • Not suited to very large suites or heavy conditional logic.
  • Small vendor — check longevity if this becomes critical infrastructure.

Best for

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

Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.

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.