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Appium vs Cypress

Appium

appium.io

Cypress

cypress.io

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FigureAppiumCypress
Price from—$67/mo
Free plan—Yes
Free trial—Yes
Open source—Yes
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published04
Spec score · Testing Automation Software8.1 (#9)9.4 (#1)
Spec score · Testing And Qa8.1 (#12)9.4 (#1)
Spec score · GUI Testing Software8.1 (#13)9.3 (#1)
Spec score · Software Testing Tools8.1 (#13)9.3 (#1)
Spec score · Functional Testing Software8.1 (#17)9.4 (#1)
Spec score · Regression Testing Software8.1 (#13)9.4 (#1)
Spec score · Automated Testing8.1 (#16)9.4 (#1)
Spec score · End-to-End Testing Software8.1 (#15)9.4 (#1)
SecurityAppium recommends running its server locally or within a protected internal network, avoiding untrusted users and not exposing its ports to the wider internet.Cypress says Cypress Cloud maintains a SOC 2 Type 2 report and encrypts testing content in transit with TLS 1.2 or greater and at rest with AES-256 or greater.

Plans

Appium

No plans published.

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Cypress

  • StarterFree
  • Team$67 a month
  • Business$267 a month
  • EnterprisePriced on request

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In their own words

Appium

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Cypress

Cypress is a front-end testing tool for web applications, combining an open-source Cypress App with the cloud-based Cypress Cloud service. The App supports end-to-end and component testing, launching and controlling real browsers from Chrome-family browsers and Firefox; WebKit is experimental. For debugging, it offers time-travel snapshots, readable errors, stack traces, automatic waiting, and network stubbing. Cypress Cloud stores recorded CI test runs and adds debugging, analytics, and orchestration for teams. It connects with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Jira, and its MCP works with AI coding assistants including Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. The Starter plan costs nothing and includes 10 users, 500 test results per month, 100 prompt executions per month, and 30-day access to paid features. Team costs $67 a month, billed annually at $799. Cypress says Cloud test content is stored in the United States, and material in public projects is publicly accessible. It also says its AI models are not trained on customer data.

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