Tricentis Tosca vs Testsigma

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Free tier available

Enterprise licensing only, negotiated annually. Six-figure contracts are normal at scale.

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.

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

Widely used

Tricentis · since 2007

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

• Unmatched coverage of enterprise packaged software, especially SAP end-to-end processes.
• Model-based design means one change updates every affected test case.
• Risk-based prioritisation is a real answer to eight-hour regression packs.

• 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.

• Expensive, and priced for organisations with a procurement department.
• Steep learning curve; most customers buy consulting alongside the licence.
• Heavy and slow compared to modern code-first tools for plain web applications.

• 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.

Large enterprises running SAP or similar packaged systems where no open-source tool reaches.

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