Testing Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

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reduced 7 removed 5 restructured 4 deprecated 1 rebranded 1 increased 1 restricted 1

Pricing Change Timeline

reduced Cypress Cloud discovered 2026-09-05 high
The Starter tier now includes 10 users instead of 50, and 500 test results/month instead of 100 prompt executions/month.
restructured LambdaTest discovered 2026-09-03 medium
The pricing for Test Manager Premium has changed to $49/month billed annually. KaneAI Starter is now $17/month billed annually.
removed Applitools Eyes discovered 2026-09-03 high
The free tier no longer exists. The lowest tier is 'Starter' at $667/month, offering 100,000 component checkpoints or 1,000 page checkpoints.
reduced Artillery discovered 2026-09-02 medium
The free tier now includes 30 reports/month instead of 100.
restructured Codecov discovered 2026-09-02 medium
The Team plan is now $5 per user/month, down from the stored $12 per user/month. The Team plan is limited to 10 users, and is not visible if you have more than 10 activated users.
reduced Postman discovered 2026-09-02 medium
The free tier now includes 50 AI credits and has limitations on API monitoring requests (1,000 requests/month). Team collaboration features are no longer removed and require a Team plan ($19/user/month).
reduced Grafana k6 Cloud discovered 2026-08-28 high
The free tier no longer offers 500 VUh. It now offers limited usage of all Grafana Cloud services, with limits of 10k active series per month for metrics, and 50 GB ingested per month for logs, traces, and profiles.
reduced webhook.site discovered 2026-08-28 medium
The free tier has a request limit.
reduced BugBug discovered 2026-08-28 medium
The free plan now has limits: 15 tests, 4 test suites, 1 user, and 1 project.
deprecated lost-pixel.com discovered 2026-08-28 high
Lost Pixel is being sunset as they are joining Figma. While a free tier still exists, it's now listed as 'Hobby Free' and offers 7,000 snapshots/month. There are also paid tiers: Startup ($100/mo), Business ($250/mo), and Scale ($670/mo).
reduced Vaadin discovered 2026-08-28 medium
The page highlights that Vaadin Core is free & open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) and can be used even in commercial projects. It does mention maintenance up to 15 years *per version* as a paid service.
restructured Applitools Eyes 2026-04-18 medium
Free tier metric changed from 'checkpoints' to 'Test Units' (50/month) and user cap relaxed from 1 user to unlimited users. AI-powered visual regression detection unchanged.
removed everystep-automation.com 2026-04-18 low
Reclassified from Free to Trial tier. No permanent free plan exists — product offers a 30-day free trial only, after which paid licenses are required.
removed Katalon 2026-04-13 low
Free Community Edition removed, paid from $167/seat/month. 30-day trial available
removed TestingBot 2026-04-13 low
Permanent free plan removed, now 14-28 day trial only
rebranded LambdaTest 2026-04-13 low
Rebranded to TestMu AI (testmuai.com), freemium plan preserved
increased LocalStack 2026-04-12 low
Community Emulator still available as open source despite earlier discontinuation announcement. Free tier rebranded as Hobby plan with 30+ services
removed LocalStack 2026-03-23 high
LocalStack drops open-source Community Edition. Single unified image requires auth token. Free tier replaced with non-commercial-only tier requiring registration. Commercial use requires paid plan starting at $39/month
restricted Postman 2026-03-01 high
Free plan now single-user only. Team collaboration (shared workspaces, collection sharing) requires paid plan at $19/user/month
restructured Testcontainers Cloud 2024-06-01 medium
Docker acquired AtomicJar (creators of Testcontainers Cloud). Standalone Testcontainers Cloud free tier retired — now bundled into Docker subscriptions. Docker Pro gets 100 min/month, Team 500 min/month, Business 1,500 min/month

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