Xray vs Testiny
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
From $10 per month flat for up to 10 users ($100/year)
PaidFrom $18.5 per user/month (Starter, up to 25 users; viewers $3.70)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Priced through the Atlassian Marketplace by Jira user tier. Above the 10-user flat tier it works out around $6.07/user/month (e.g. $7,280/year for 100 users) and falls to roughly $3/user/month by 500 users. It bills for every Jira user, not just testers.
Prices are published in USD: Starter $18.50 per user/month up to 25 users, Business $20.50 and Enterprise $30, with read-only viewer seats at $3.70. Testiny Server is from $300 per user/year in 5-user packages. EU-hosted with an on-premise option.
Free tier
30-day trial via Atlassian Marketplace.
Free for up to 3 users.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Xblend / Xpand IT · since 2014
Emerging
Testiny · since 2022
Strengths
- Complete requirement-to-test-to-defect traceability without leaving Jira.
- No second tool for the team to learn or license separately.
- Strong BDD support with Gherkin scenarios stored as Jira issues.
- EU hosting and self-hosting option simplify GDPR conversations.
- Genuinely quick to set up and learn.
- Fair, transparent pricing.
Limitations
- Inherits Jira's performance characteristics; large test executions are slow.
- Billing per Jira user means non-QA staff inflate the cost.
- Test case authoring in Jira issue screens is clumsy compared to purpose-built editors.
- Small feature set relative to TestRail or Xray.
- Very small vendor.
- Limited third-party ecosystem.
Best for
Organisations standardised on Jira that want a single system of record.
European small and mid-sized teams wanting simple test management with local data residency.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.