LambdaTest vs. Selenium

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LambdaTest
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
LambdaTest is a Quality Engineering Platform that offers a full-stack testing cloud with 10K+ real devices and over 3,000 browsers for cross-browser and end-to-end testing. With AI-native test management, MCP servers, and agent-based automation, LambdaTest supports Selenium, Appium, Playwright, and all major frameworks. AI Agents like HyperExecute and KaneAI bring AI and cloud into test workflows, enabling automation testing with 100+ integrations. From infrastructure to…
$19
per month per user
Selenium
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.N/A
Pricing
LambdaTestSelenium
Editions & Modules
Live
$19
per month Parallel Test
Real Device (Includes Live)
$35
per month Parallel Test
Web & Mobile Browser Automation
$119
per month Parallel Test
Native App Automation
$149
per month Parallel Test
Web & Mobile Browser on Real Device
$158
per month Parallel Test
HyperExecute Cloud (Multi OS)
$199
per month Parallel Test
SmartUI Visual Regression
$219
per month Parallel Test
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Parallel Test
HyperExecute On-Premise
Custom Pricing
per parallel test
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LambdaTestSelenium
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
LambdaTestSelenium
Considered Both Products
LambdaTest
Chose LambdaTest
User friendly and easy to raise bugs
Chose LambdaTest
Its excellent userfriendly interface makes it easier to the user. Top notch execution stability of the testing steps and saves it. Instead of browser it reduces the execution time of the testcase. Its price is also affordable any client of user can buy it. It has cross OS …
Chose LambdaTest
Provides cloud based platform to test across multiple browser
Chose LambdaTest
The test runs are faster in Lambdatest, Integration of lambdatest is easier and lambdatest is less expensive compared to other products like BrowserStack or saucelabs
Selenium

No answer on this topic

Features
LambdaTestSelenium
Automation Testing
Comparison of Automation Testing features of Product A and Product B
LambdaTest
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Ratings
Selenium
10.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Record and Automate00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-Browser Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Test Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Integrated Version Control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Object Recognition00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data-Driven Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Testing Reports & Analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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LambdaTestSelenium
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
LambdaTestSelenium
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(110 ratings)
9.2
(55 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(7 ratings)
9.2
(6 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(62 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(7 ratings)
8.3
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LambdaTestSelenium
Likelihood to Recommend
LambdaTest Inc.
One day, I needed to test a specific issue that was occurring only on Pixel phones. I turned to LambdaTest, quickly identified the problem, and was able to fix it. There hasn't been a situation where I felt LambdaTest didn't help, it's my go-to solution for testing, as it solves many problems.
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Open Source
When you have to test the UI and how it behaves when certain actions are performed, you need something that can automate the browsers. This is where Selenium comes to the rescue. If you have to test APIs and not the frontend (UI), I would recommend going with other libraries that support HTTP Requests. Selenium is good only when you have no choice but to run the steps on a browser.
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Pros
LambdaTest Inc.
  • Very accessible as multiple users can be added in each subscription
  • Very reliable as it is very close to the actual device when it comes to operating system and version behavior
  • There are a lot of options for devices and browsers that users can choose from when it comes to emulating and testing
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Open Source
  • For any web based UI automation, Selenium is the best tool out there to automate your tests.
  • It supports multiple coding languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C# etc.. to choose from.
  • There is a huge community of users and can get many answers on StackOverFlow.
  • It has lot of other plugins to make your tests even more efficient.
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Cons
LambdaTest Inc.
  • More real devices should be added like I have Samsung mobile but it was not in the list
  • It takes time in checking the link on LambdaTest if we compare with real mobiles
  • Sometimes exact results are not matching as from real mobiles
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Open Source
  • Selenium is pretty user-friendly but sometimes tests tend to flake out. I'd say roughly one out of twenty tests yields a false positive.
  • Selenium software cannot read images. This is a minor negative because a free plug-in is available from alternate sources.
  • Slowness may be a minor factor with Selenium, though this is an issue with basically any testing software since waiting on a site to execute JavaScript requires the browser to wait for a particular action.
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Likelihood to Renew
LambdaTest Inc.
The reason i have given the 10 points becasue the problem LambdaTest solves is providing access to all devices in one place, allowing developers to identify the same errors they would encounter on real devices. This makes life much easier, especially for developers who regularly face cross-device functionality issues. It's a big plus point that positions LambdaTest as an all-in-one solution.
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Open Source
We love this product mainly because of its high customization abilities and the ease of use. Moreover, its free and can be learned easily through online communities and videos. The tests are more consistent and reliable as compared to Manual tests. It has enabled us to test a large number of features all in one go, which would have impossible through manual tests. The reports generated at the end of the tests are really helpful for the QA and the development teams to get a fair view of the application.
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Usability
LambdaTest Inc.
Because of the ease of use of the platform, we just save a lot of time and effort with this as its a feature rich solution, we just need to upload app binary once and for everytime we need to test on a different device we can just directly install that binary on the device without the pain of reupload.
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Open Source
For those who are unfamiliar with coding, there is a bit of a learning curve. There is plenty of helpful documentation and resources but it can take a little time to get the software up and running. Once you get the hang of how Selenium works, and what it can do, you realize how many things you can use it for, and how many processes you can automate.
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Reliability and Availability
LambdaTest Inc.
yes always available
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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Performance
LambdaTest Inc.
haven't found any glitch while using this
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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
LambdaTest Inc.
The customer support team is very active and cooperative. Once, I contacted them in their off timings because of an issue, I got an instant reply from the executive and he resolved the issue very efficiently. This is why we have been using LambdaTest for more than two years. It is best suited for us.
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Open Source
The Selenium app has a pretty fat community of users. For the problems we are experiencing, we are primarily receiving support from these communities. In addition, there is widespread service support. Instant support is given to the problems we experience when we need Online support. We and our team are happy to provide this support, especially before important deployment processes
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Implementation Rating
LambdaTest Inc.
Implementation of Lambdatest was very easy for different project requirements.
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Open Source
We did everything we needed to use it. Now we can execute our tests on different operational systems and browsers running few tests simultaneously. We also implemented Appium framework to execute our tests on mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets. We use SauceLabs for our test execution and Jenkins for continuous integration.
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Alternatives Considered
LambdaTest Inc.
While BrowserStack is also a well-established platform, we found LambdaTest to offer similar and even better features at reasonable pricing. LambdaTest is more cost-effective than BrowserStack. LambdaTest provides a free forever plan, while BrowserStack does not. Even manual testing plans are better priced than BrowserStack’s. In terms of UI and onboarding, we found LambdaTest more user-friendly as well.
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Open Source
At the time of adoption, there were not many other alternatives that were even close to being competitive when it comes to browser testing. As far as I know now to this day, there is still little competition to Selenium for what it does. Any other browser-based testing still utilises Selenium to interact with the browser.
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Scalability
LambdaTest Inc.
not all department, but we're using for our clients
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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
LambdaTest Inc.
  • Automation testing has a bit of a learning curve
  • Lack of real device keep that bug in your head if not on the website.
  • Need to wait for a while for a new OS or browser version on the contrary of immediate availability in case of owning a lab
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Open Source
  • There hasn’t been a downside to using it yet other than we’ve got to update the programs we create for each change.
  • This has saved us hundreds of hours of manpower by allowing our automation engineer to rapid fire tests.
  • We are able to screenshot and save entire sites before and after launch with a program the automation engineer created
  • We can compare large volumes of data against data in excel docs with a program created using Selenium
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ScreenShots

LambdaTest Screenshots

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