Pricing trends for Testing: 20 tracked pricing changes across 45 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Testing Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

45
Vendors
4%
of All Tracked Changes
10
At-Risk Vendors
reduced 7 restructured 5 removed 3 increased 2 deprecated 1 rebranded 1 restricted 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

increased BugBug discovered 2026-09-28 · effective date unknown high
The free plan now offers unlimited tests, test suites, users, and projects, and includes AI Test recorder, Components, Edit & rewind, Screenshots, and 7 days of tests history. Previously limits of 15 tests, 4 test suites, 1 user, and 1 project. Source ↗
restructured Gatling discovered 2026-09-21 · effective date unknown high
The Community Edition is still available for download. Source ↗
restructured LocalStack discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown medium
The Hobby plan is still available and free, but the details have been updated. The number of emulated services is still 30+, and it includes a personal sandbox and CI testing. However, the pricing for other tiers has changed (Base is now $39/month or $45/month, Ultimate is $89/month), and there are more detailed feature breakdowns for each tier. A 'Base' tier has been added at $29/month billed annually. There is also a LocalStack for Snowflake offering with its own tiers and pricing. Source ↗
reduced Cypress Cloud discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown high
The Starter tier, which is free, now includes 10 users instead of 50, and carries a new limit of 100 prompt executions/month. Test results stay at 500/month. Source ↗
removed Applitools Eyes discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown 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. Source ↗
reduced Artillery discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier now includes 30 reports/month instead of 100. Source ↗
restructured Codecov discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown 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. Source ↗
reduced Postman discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown 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). Source ↗
reduced Grafana k6 Cloud discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown 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. Source ↗
reduced webhook.site discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier has a request limit. Source ↗
reduced BugBug discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
The free plan now has limits: 15 tests, 4 test suites, 1 user, and 1 project. Source ↗
deprecated lost-pixel.com discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown 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). Source ↗
reduced Vaadin discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown 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. Source ↗
restructured Applitools Eyes discovered 2026-04-18 · effective date unknown 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. Source ↗
removed Katalon discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Free Community Edition removed, paid from $167/seat/month. 30-day trial available We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Katalon's rating.
rebranded LambdaTest discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Rebranded to TestMu AI (testmuai.com), freemium plan preserved We hold no source for this record, so it does not set LambdaTest's rating.
increased LocalStack discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown low
Community Emulator still available as open source despite earlier discontinuation announcement. Free tier rebranded as Hobby plan with 30+ services Source ↗
removed LocalStack effective 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 Source ↗
restricted Postman effective 2026-03-01 high
Free plan now single-user only. Team collaboration (shared workspaces, collection sharing) requires paid plan at $19/user/month Source ↗
restructured Testcontainers Cloud effective 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 Source ↗

We hold 3 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 10 of the 45 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 7 of the 45 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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