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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrowserStack

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABrowserStack 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

    Selenium

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASelenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.N/A
    Pricing
    BrowserStackSelenium
    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
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    Percy - Enterprise
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    App Automate - Enterprise
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    App Live - Enterprise
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    Live - Enterprise
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    App Automate - Device Cloud Pro + Visual Cloud
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    App Percy - Enterprise
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    Test Observability - Enterprise
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    Accessibility Testing - Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrowserStackSelenium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BrowserStackSelenium
    Considered Both Products
    BrowserStack
    Chose BrowserStack
    easier to integrate, less effort from QAs

    Selenium grid is another option which is free.
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    Our department manager ultimately decided to go with BrowserStack as they offered more real-world devices in their cloud than LambdaTest.
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    We chose BrowserStack as our solution as it provides a comprehensive, all-in-one package. This integrated approach ensures that all your needs are met in one place, eliminating the need for multiple tools or services. It streamlines processes, improves efficiency, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    It is one of the product which each software organisation should include in their end to end product development journey. I have explored other products in this category and I can proudly say that BrowserStack is a clear winner in terms of its Features, Performance and Product …
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    Price looks little high for browserstack , they need to introduce more flexible plans to stack their customers, support team must be more quick, sometimes they take more than 2-3 days to resolve the issue. other tools are available in less cost with same features. so later on …
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    I haven't participated in selecting BrowserStack as tool, wide-company decisions done by QA team
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    I have used Saucelabs with Jenkins and would say both of them are really comprehensive. Yet I suggested BrowserStack to our customers and team since I have used it recently and felt it easy to use and implement Tests on it. BrowserStack support team is another reason behind why …
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    I'm using the app automate feature for Automation of mobile application. So, we are add Jenkins for CI process to use on BrowserStack. For mobile application testing, We are using Appium with java client in our framework and also integrate with BrowserStack capabilities.
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    BrowserStack give more flexibility to us
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    Easy to start using the first tier plan and from there you could easily upgrade based on your team's need and if you need to extend to other users. A good and wide selection of server locations helps us oversee how an actual user experience might be. His credentials in terms …
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    Before using BrowserStack, we had limited access to virtual machines for testing. Booting up each of these devices was time consuming and difficult to manage when multiple users needed to test. BrowserStack opened up our testing to more devices, being accessible by anyone who …
    Incentivized
    Chose BrowserStack
    When we are comparing BrowserStack have faster session start times compared to Sauce Labs. And also simpler, user friendly setup and UI. This help to our team members to navigate and use. Browser stacks have reliable parallel execution with stable performance. We can get better …
    Incentivized
    Open Source
    Chose Selenium
    Open sourced and free: Multiple language support: The community: Wide plugin support: Easy installation and intuitive usage: Cross-browser support: Remote testing: Multiple testing and parallel testing execution:
    Incentivized
    Chose Selenium
    I have the most experience with selenium. I have used form filler, which is a Google add-on that allows you to create a form quickly. This is a little easier to use and has less setup time than selenium IDE, however, it is less powerful. I picked selenium because it is an …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    168 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    138 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    169 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    114 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Best Alternatives
    BrowserStackSelenium
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    BrowserStack
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    BlazeMeter
    Score8.1 out of 10
    BlazeMeter
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Tricentis Tosca
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrowserStackSelenium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (191 ratings)
    9.2
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (16 ratings)
    9.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    5.4
    (20 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    2.2
    (77 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.1
    (22 ratings)
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    BrowserStackSelenium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BrowserStack
    It's well suited to tracking down hard to find errors that are only affecting a tiny portion of customers often due to older browser compatibility. BrowserStack's Chrome extension also helps us find and address potential Accessibility issues with our sites. Not suitable for testing HTML email templates, but there are other platforms for that.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    BrowserStack
    • Test client website on 5x more platform.
    • Provide a real device with features like media injection and Physical SIM testing for manual testing of a specific feature.
    • Automate regression suite to execute parallel on multiple device.
    • Provide an accessibility report for the website through automated scanning of the site using site.xml.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    BrowserStack
    • I wish it didn't time out so quickly. I often move back and forth between my native Mac OS system and browsers to BrowserStack for Windows browsers and it often times out so I have to start over.
    • I am not sure why, but when I've been testing in BrowserStack for a long period of time - maybe over a couple of hours, it sometimes gets buggy and unresponsive or slow to respond. It makes it hard to tell if I'm experiencing an issue with the site I'm testing or if it's an issue with BrowserStack.
    • If I'm wishing for the moon and stars, I'd ask for the ability to use BrowserStack to also test with JAWS screen reader. But I'm happy having NVDA.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BrowserStack
    It's almost the 3rd year for us and it's renewal time for us. So yes, we are already discussing how many licenses we need to increase as users are increasing internally. So it's 100% sure that we are already planning renewal this year as well BrowserStack with live and app automate.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    As I mentioned earlier, the reason I use Selenium is because there is a fairly widespread community of users, and user support services are at a good level. because the application is open source, it works on many platforms (Windows, Linux, IOS) without any problems. In addition, it gives us a lot of options for writing functional tests. For errors that we receive through the application, we can easily find the reasons for errors in the forums.
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    Reliability and Availability
    BrowserStack
    I rated BrowserStack's availability a 10 because it is consistently reliable, with minimal to no downtime or unplanned outages. The platform is accessible whenever needed, ensuring uninterrupted testing. Its robust infrastructure and proactive monitoring ensure a seamless experience, allowing us to meet deadlines without delays caused by availability issues and all
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    Selenium does not have technical support available easily. You have to go through forums to get the information you need. However, there are excellent forums out there that make it easy to troubleshoot. The open-source flexibility makes it difficult to have dedicated support.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    BrowserStack
    I rated the implementation satisfaction an 8 because while it went smoothly overall, there were some challenges during the initial learning phase and integration with existing tools. Key insights include the importance of providing sufficient training upfront and ensuring seamless integration with other systems to minimize disruptions and improve adoption speed.
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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
    BrowserStack
    BrowserStack products has been found better for low code automations and visual regression techniques. We have been struggling to maintain the API endpoint sanity tests and writing a lot of code for them while releasing the builds, while we chose BrowserStack accessibility solutions, we found it a way easier than we thought and worked it up.
    Incentivized
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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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    BrowserStack
    No Vendors were involved, directly dealt with Browserstack
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    BrowserStack
    Not used
    Incentivized
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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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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