Zephyr Scale vs Qase

From $10 per month flat for up to 10 users ($100/year)

From $35 per user/month (Teams, billed annually; $42 monthly)

Like Xray, priced per Jira user via the Marketplace, so it bills every Jira user rather than just testers. Beyond the 10-user flat tier expect about $5.68/user/month (e.g. $6,810/year for 100 users), dropping with volume. Zephyr Squad is a cheaper, lighter sibling product.

The old Startup tier is gone — it is now Free, Teams and Enterprise. Read-only collaborator seats are $10 each, which keeps the cost down where many people only need to see results.

30-day trial.

Free plan aimed at students, hobbyists and non-profits: 2 projects, 500 MB storage, 30-day history.

Widely used

SmartBear · since 2016

Established

Qase · since 2018

• Purpose-built case repository with parameterisation and shared steps that scale better than issue-based storage.
• Cross-project reporting for programme-level quality visibility.
• Version history on test cases, which matters for audit.

• Fast, modern interface that testers actually enjoy using.
• Excellent first-party reporters for Playwright, Cypress, pytest and others.
• Free tier makes evaluation and small-team use realistic.

• Two similarly named products (Squad and Scale) cause genuine purchasing confusion.
• Still bound to Jira's performance envelope.
• Per-Jira-user pricing again inflates cost for large organisations.

• Smaller vendor than Idera or SmartBear; enterprise procurement may push back.
• Fewer enterprise compliance features than the incumbents.
• Jira integration is good but not Jira-native.

Larger Jira organisations with test libraries big enough that reuse matters.

Startups and mid-market teams that find TestRail overpriced and dated.