BrowserStack vs. Cypress.io

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BrowserStack
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
BrowserStack is a test platform built for developers and QAs to expand test coverage, scale and optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability. BrowserStack states it currently powers over a billion tests a year for customers who include Amazon, Paypal, Well Fargo Bank, Nvidia, MongoDB, Pfizer, GE, Discovery, React JS, Apache, JQuery and several others rely on BrowserStack to test their web and mobile apps.
$0
per month Unlimited users and 5000 free screenshots
Cypress.io
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Cypress (or Cypress.io, also the name of the company in Atlanta that develops the tool) is a testing tool with the capability to run tests across multiple browsers, that aims to make setting up, writing, running and debugging tests easy.N/A
Pricing
BrowserStackCypress.io
Editions & Modules
Percy - Free
$0
per month Unlimited users and 5000 free screenshots
App Percy - Free
$0
per month 5000 free screenshots and 100 minutes of infrastructure
Test Observability - Unlimited Free
$0
Accessibility Testing - Free
$0
Test Observability - Observability Pro
$0.01
per month per test execution
Percy - Desktop
$0.02
per month per screenshot
App Percy - Visual Core
$0.02
per month per screenshot
Percy - Desktop & Mobile
$0.02
per month per screenshot
App Percy - Visual Cloud
$0.03
per month per screenshot
Live - Desktop
$29
per month per user
Live - Desktop & Mobile
$39
per month per user
App Live - Individual
$39
per month per user
Automate - Desktop
$129
per month 1 parallel test
Live - Team
$150
per month 5 users
App Live - Team
$150
per month 5 users
Automate - Desktop & Mobile
$199
per month 1 parallel test
App Automate - Device Cloud
$199
per month 1 parallel test
App Live - Team Pro
$199
per month 5 users
Accessibility Testing - Team
$199
per month 5 users
App Automate - Device Cloud Pro
$249
per month 1 parallel test
Automate - Enterprise
Contact sales team
Percy - Enterprise
Contact Sales
App Automate - Enterprise
Contact Sales
App Live - Enterprise
Contact sales team
Live - Enterprise
Contact sales team
App Automate - Device Cloud Pro + Visual Cloud
Contact Sales
App Percy - Enterprise
Contact Sales
Test Observability - Enterprise
Contact Sales
Accessibility Testing - Enterprise
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrowserStackCypress.io
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
BrowserStackCypress.io
Considered Both Products
BrowserStack
Chose BrowserStack
SauceLabs was not intuitive. The launch response time was too high. It didn't offer flexibility in debugging, and the other testing features were not easily available.
Chose BrowserStack
easy to use, pricing, customer support and huge availability of devices
Cypress.io

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
BrowserStackCypress.io
Small Businesses
TestComplete
TestComplete
Score 7.0 out of 10
BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI
Score 7.1 out of 10
BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
ignio AIOps
ignio AIOps
Score 8.1 out of 10
BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
BrowserStackCypress.io
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(180 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(15 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.9
(77 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
5.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrowserStackCypress.io
Likelihood to Recommend
BrowserStack
Scanning QR and adding item in basket and completing E2E flows. If you have a use case where you want to test application under test on different Apple devices with different iOS /iPadOS versions with real devices, then BrowserStack is one stop solution for you. The support team is also quick and gets a resolution within 24hrs or at least they acknowledge, which is the good part.
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Cypress.io Inc
Everything web-based should be testable. Even our highly dynamic content-providing web application works well. Hopefully, it will get a bigger user base in the future so that one can find even more support at StackOverflow or similar forums.
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Pros
BrowserStack
  • It gets the backend logs that is pretty useful for getting backend end errors
  • The connection with the BrowserStack devices are quick and easy to setup
  • BrowserStack provides a lot of documentation to guide you when you're starting to use BrowserStack
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Cypress.io Inc
  • Cypress automatically waits for DOM elements before interacting dev, this eliminates adding explicits waits in your code.
  • Has built-in recording and debugging tool.
  • Cypress has executions faster since you can update your code in the fly.
  • Very easy to configure / setup
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Cons
BrowserStack
  • I would appreciate if they increase their maximum session time limit. Their current session limit is around 2 hours and for some lengthy end to end use cases we have, that becomes a hurdle.
  • Right now, the session recordings are unavailable after 30 days. I would appreciate if that availability is extended beyond that time frame.
  • Would love to have information about their Dedicated Device Cloud service available on the Browserstack website similar to other plans.
  • Would love to have an option for purchasing a plan that is more than 5 parallels, directly from the website instead of contacting sales team for that.
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Cypress.io Inc
  • There are a lot of plugins but several of them have many errors. So Cypress.io should work integrating more features so that people should not rely on these plugins. For example, many people use cypress-cucumber-preprocessor and Cypress.io can start by integrating Gherkin support by default so that reliance in plugins are decreased.
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Likelihood to Renew
BrowserStack
This decisions mostly taken by senior management at VP and CEO level, they also need approval from many other teams like dev, design according to the use, and finance due to competitive cost, They do check other product as well, and I am just a single person from QA team, and not a decision maker
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Cypress.io Inc
Highly satisfied and [a] big fan.
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Usability
BrowserStack
It integrates directly in internal networks and local development. The point and click interface of choosing your device, pick the browser/version and you have a working emulation of that exact environment. What else could you ask for? I've set our least computer savvy users up with BrowserStack for testing in minutes. It feels like it's just part of your local environemnt.
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Cypress.io Inc
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Reliability and Availability
BrowserStack
Till now have not faced any outage Whenever we have taken help from the Browserstack Support team, they have given prompt and helpful answers
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Cypress.io Inc
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Performance
BrowserStack
The tests are fast considering the fact that they're Appium tests. I've seen tests reliably pass or fail when they're supposed to, with next to zero issues on the BrowserStack side of things. Tests launch only seconds after I kick off them off from my CLI.
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Cypress.io Inc
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Support Rating
BrowserStack
I'm saying a 10 for support for BrowserStack only based on feedback from the development team. I myself have never had to reach out to support for any questions or issues, but others in the company have. From my conversations with them, the support was fantastic and had been a pleasure working with the BrowserStack team.
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Cypress.io Inc
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In-Person Training
BrowserStack
Yes, it was online training on meet, and trainer looks like skilled and technical strong, he has covered end to end all the features and he has answers all the queries. because of this trainings we are able to implement it by our own in the organization, thank you for support and training.
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Cypress.io Inc
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Online Training
BrowserStack
It was a quick training from the support of browserstack, it was nice and easy to understand, thanks again for the support given by the team. and regularly I used to receive mails for training from support for any new feature they launch, I was able to spread same training to all my team and dev.
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Cypress.io Inc
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Implementation Rating
BrowserStack
It was new learning for me, till the time I was not aware of such tools are available for manual CBT testing and for automation integration caue I was using some VM for testing, it has increase my knowledge and skill set. It was a fun while implementation and I enjoyed it.
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Cypress.io Inc
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Alternatives Considered
BrowserStack
We did a benchmark to compare multiple criterias: Security, reliability, Sound, Variety of devices, availability of devices, how long before new released devices are made available, easy to use, extra features, customer support, company reference, integration with our tools. BrowserStack got the highest score and the overall price was also cheaper than their competitors.
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Cypress.io Inc
Execution speed and interactive debugging tool is very easy. you can make changes in the fly and test will run automatically, thus saving more time debugging your code. Can easily be intergrated to to CI/CD pipeline
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BrowserStack
No Vendors were involved, directly dealt with Browserstack
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Cypress.io Inc
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Scalability
BrowserStack
I may not be the best person to answer this as I am only using it for 1 department and at 1 site but will still try my best As far as Scalability for Devices for Mobile Automation is concerned, it gets a Solid 10, as the users can run cases on upto 10 device parallel and also have the best choices of devices to choose
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Cypress.io Inc
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Professional Services
BrowserStack
Not used
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Cypress.io Inc
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Return on Investment
BrowserStack
  • It reduced the cost of buying multiple devices as we have multiple devices access in it
  • Easily accessible from anywhere due to it cloud availability
  • Introducing this to our client also helped us in building trust as well as winning their confidence during deliverables
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Cypress.io Inc
  • Flaky tests can be caught easily
  • Regration testing of application with Cypress.io helps to maintain quality of the software product.
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