Aerokube Moon vs BrowserStack Live

Aerokube Moon runs browser automation sessions inside a customer-managed Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster. It supports Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and Puppeteer, with Selenium compatibility based on the W3C WebDriver specification and standard capabilities. Browser capacity depends on the cluster, while the license sets concurrent sessions. Without a license key, Moon allows up to four parallel browser sessions for unlimited use. A paid license costs $5 a month for each parallel session, scaling with the number of concurrent sessions. Aerokube recommends Helm installation. The interface lists and filters running sessions, displays browser screens, and launches sessions for manual testing. Optional features include video recording, mobile emulation, clipboard access, file transfer, and developer tools. Moon can capture network activity as HAR and upload it to S3 when configured. It exposes Prometheus metrics, including running sessions and session limits. Moon 2.x has no built-in authentication by default; ingress authentication or sidecars are described.

BrowserStack Live is a cloud-based manual testing platform for interactively testing and debugging websites and web apps on real devices and browsers. It supports new and older versions of Edge, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox, with access to real Windows, macOS, Android and iOS devices. Teams can test internal development or staging sites, including sites behind firewalls, without setup or configuration.

Live lists real-time debugging with pre-installed developer tools and multi-device testing on up to four real devices. A session can use two real mobile devices simultaneously, or users can run two sessions in separate browser tabs. BrowserStack says physical devices and desktop virtual machines are wiped after each session. It lists integrations including Jenkins, Cypress, Selenium and Jira for its testing products, and states it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and encrypts communications with HTTPS/TLS. The free trial is limited to 30 minutes and has limited browser access. Annual paid plans include Freelancer at $12.50 a month, Desktop at $29 a month and Desktop & Mobile at $39 a month.