Playwright pricing (2026)
Plans, free tier and how Playwright's price stacks up against 12 other tools in Testing & code review. Verified from official pricing pages.
Current pricing
Free (open source)
- Free tier
- Yes: free Apache-2.0 framework
- Value score
- 15 / 15
- Value rank
- #1 of 13 in Testing & code review
- Overall score
- 92 / 100
How Playwright's price compares in Testing & code review
Sorted by our pricing and free-tier score (out of 15), then overall score. Click a tool for its own pricing page.
| Tool | Value | Free tier | Score | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright(this page) | 15 | Yes | 92 | Free (open source) |
| Vitest | 15 | Yes | 87 | Free and open source (MIT). No paid tier; funded by sponsors |
| Droidline | 15 | Yes | 66 | Free (MIT) |
| Cypress | 13 | Yes | 88 | Cypress App free (MIT). Cypress Cloud: Starter free (10 users, 500 test results/mo, 100 prompt execs/mo); Team $67/mo ($799/yr); Business from $267/mo ($3,199/yr); Enterprise custom. Extra test results on-demand ~$5–6 per 1,000 on paid plans. Free Cloud for qualified non-commercial public OSS |
| Checkly | 13 | Yes | 78 | Hobby free forever. Modular paid plans: Detect Starter $29/mo ($24 annual) / Team $80/mo ($64 annual); Communicate Starter $12/mo / Team $34/mo; Resolve Starter $19/mo / Team $49/mo; Enterprise custom. ~20% off annual. Add-ons for extra monitors and check runs |
| Momentic | 13 | Yes | 75 | Pay-as-you-go $125/mo (10,000 credits, then $0.01875/credit); Enterprise custom |
| Paveo | 13 | Yes | 63 | Free $0 forever (the test, GitHub Action and guard); Team $15 per developer/mo (up to 25 developers); Custom for more than 25 developers, billed quarterly or annually; guard audits priced per audit |
| CodeRabbit | 12 | Yes | 82 | Essentials $24/user/mo annual ($30 monthly); Team $48/user/mo annual ($60 monthly); Advanced $72/user/mo; Enterprise custom. Extra usage-based reviews $0.25 per reviewed file |
| Browserbase | 12 | Yes | 70 | Developer $20/mo (100 browser hours) |
| Greptile | 10 | Yes | 79 | Starter free (1 active developer, 50 credits/mo, unlimited repos). Pro: prepaid credits at $1 each, shared across your organization, with unlimited developers and agents and no seat fees (Base review 1 credit, Plus 3, Apex 10). Enterprise custom (self-host, SSO/SAML). 14-day Pro trial; pre-Series A startups get 500 free credits a month for 6 months; free for qualified non-commercial OSS |
| Qodo | 8 | No | 68 | Pro Team: shared credits at $0.012/credit, unlimited users |
| Claude Code Review | 6 | No | 65 | Requires a Claude Team or Enterprise plan (Enterprise: $20/seat/mo plus usage at API rates). Reviews have no flat price: billed on token usage through usage credits, separate from plan usage, with an org-wide monthly spend limit |
| QA Wolf | 5 | Partial | 67 | Pay per test run: $1/run on web and Electron on Linux, $2/run on mobile or desktop (up to 5 min per run, longer runs billed in 5-minute blocks; retries and AI included); volume pricing via sales |
Cheaper or free alternatives to Playwright
- Vitest
Value 15/15 · score 87
Yes: fully free MIT open source with no usage limits or paid cloud
Vitest pricing → - Droidline
Value 15/15 · score 66
Yes: free
Droidline pricing →
Pricing history on PromptToProd
- Pricing last verified: Free (open source)
- Started tracking Playwright.
We re-check pricing pages regularly and log every change on the changelog.
FAQ
- How much does Playwright cost in 2026?
- Playwright pricing as of 2026-10-24: Free (open source). Plans change, so confirm on the official site.
- Is Playwright free?
- Yes. Playwright free tier: free Apache-2.0 framework.
- Is Playwright good value?
- Playwright scores 15/15 on PromptToProd's pricing and free-tier criterion, #1 of 13 in Testing & code review on value, and 92/100 overall.
- What are cheaper or free alternatives to Playwright?
- In Testing & code review, tools with a free tier and an equal or better pricing score include Vitest (15/15, score 87), Droidline (15/15, score 66).
- When was Playwright pricing last checked?
- We last verified Playwright's pricing on 2026-10-24 from its official pricing page and docs.
Read the full Playwright review and score breakdown →
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