Appelium vs Scout by base14
Appelium
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| Figure | Appelium | Scout by base14 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | 200 CHF/mo | $250/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 7 | 2 |
| Spec score · Mobile App Monitoring | 9.5 (#1) | 7.9 (#16) |
| Headquarters | 8064 Zürich, Switzerland | Bangalore, India |
| Integrations | Officially named workflow integrations include Fastlane, Gradle, Xcode, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Opsgenie. | Scout provides a read-only MCP endpoint for querying traces, logs, metrics, service topology, and alerts through coding agents. |
| Security controls | Official security claims include TOTP two-factor authentication, AES-256-GCM encryption and an A+ SSL Labs rating. | base14 states that internal access requires mandatory MFA/2FA and that service communication uses TLS 1.3 with automated certificate rotation. |
| Support | The pricing page says customers can email [email protected] to request an extension of the 30-day trial. | The Startup plan includes dedicated Slack support, assisted onboarding with the first month free, fortnightly reliability reviews, and 24/7 support. |
Plans
Appelium
- FREEFree
- FREEFree
- BASIC250 CHF a month
- PRO860 CHF a month
- BASIC2,400 CHF a year
- PRO8,640 CHF a year
- ENTERPRISEPriced on request
In their own words
Appelium
Appelium is a mobile app quality platform for investigating stability and quality issues across iOS, tvOS and Android. Bug and crash reports can include network logs, videos, user steps, device details, stack traces, console logs and metadata. For UI tests, the platform records executions with network and console logs, videos and screenshots, then analyzes and groups failures. Performance monitoring covers API request timing and status codes, app launch performance and custom traces. Appelium also includes beta build distribution and names integrations such as Fastlane, Gradle, Xcode, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Opsgenie. Its MCP server can provide crash and test-failure context to compatible clients including Claude, Copilot and Cursor through an API endpoint. The site says its SDKs work with any CI, whether customer-managed or cloud-based. A free plan is available; BASIC is CHF 250 a month and PRO is CHF 860 a month. The Enterprise plan offers self-hosting, with price on request. Appelium lists a 30-day trial and says customer data is processed and stored in Switzerland.
Scout by base14
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