Testsigma vs Testim
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 tierQuote on request
Quote onlyWhat 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 beyond the free tier; priced by annual test runs.
Free tier
Apache-2.0 community edition, self-hosted — the GitHub repo is still actively maintained.
Free plan with a limited monthly run allowance.
Open source
Apache-2.0 (community edition)
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Testsigma Inc. · since 2019
Established
Tricentis · since 2014
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.
- Smart locators handle everyday UI churn well.
- The escape hatch to real JavaScript keeps complex cases possible.
- Reusable shared steps keep large recorded suites maintainable.
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.
- Test logic lives in the vendor's cloud rather than your repository, which complicates review and branching.
- Run-based pricing punishes running the full suite on every commit.
- Post-acquisition roadmap is bound to the wider Tricentis strategy.
Best for
QA teams that want readable web, mobile and API automation, with a choice of managed cloud or self-hosted deployment.
Teams with fast-changing UIs that need maintenance to stay low.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins, Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.