Evinced vs Pa11y
Evinced
evinced.com
Pa11y
pa11y.orgSide by side
| Figure | Evinced | Pa11y |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Accessibility Testing Software | 8.9 (#12) | 8.6 (#21) |
| Spec score · Website Accessibility Tools | 8.9 (#11) | 8.7 (#14) |
| Spec score · Digital Accessibility Platforms | 8.4 (#2) | 8.1 (#6) |
| Spec score · Web Accessibility Software | 8.4 (#5) | 8.2 (#11) |
| API access | Yes | Yes |
| CI/CD integration | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Purpose | Evinced’s AI-powered tools help teams keep websites and mobile apps accessible by finding, clustering, tracking, and preventing accessibility bugs. | Pa11y publishes free, open-source tools to help designers and developers make web pages more accessible. |
| Scan scope | site | site |
| WCAG version | wcag 2.1 | wcag 2.1 |
Plans
In their own words
Evinced
Evinced provides tools for teams working to find and prevent accessibility issues in websites and mobile apps. Its analysis uses rule sets, computer vision, AI, and other algorithms, and groups recurring code patterns so teams can connect many reported issues to fewer components. Test Automation SDKs work with web and mobile apps and support frameworks including Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, WebdriverIO, XCUITest, Espresso, and Appium. CI integrations include Jenkins and CircleCI, with JSON, JUnit, and CSV output. Site Scanner crawls websites, tracks issues over time, supports login-required pages, and can scan on-premises development, QA, and staging environments using outbound HTTPS. Web Flow Analyzer follows a user journey, reports on the flow, and can create Jira or Azure DevOps tickets. Mobile Flow Analyzer examines real or simulated Android and iOS devices without SDK installation or code-level app access. Other tools include a Figma design checker, chatbot integrations, and MCP tools for compatible AI coding systems. Pricing is on request; a 14-day Site Scanner trial is listed at 0.00 USD, with no credit card required and stated URL and per-scan limits.
Pa11y
Pa11y is a free, open-source set of tools for checking website accessibility. Its command-line interface loads a page for a one-off test and highlights issues, while Pa11y CI checks a list of pages in continuous-integration workflows. Pa11y Dashboard tests pages daily and graphs improvements or regressions over time. Pa11y Webservice supplies JSON data for the Dashboard or a custom dashboard-style front end. The package runs from the command line or Node.js, uses HTML_CodeSniffer by default, and can also use the axe test runner. WCAG2AA is the default CLI standard, with WCAG2A and WCAG2AAA selectable. Reports can be human-readable CLI output, CSV, HTML, JSON, or TSV. Configuration uses command-line options or JSON and JavaScript files, and local HTML files can be tested with an absolute path. Pa11y provides API access, scheduled scans, site-level scanning, and CI/CD integration across Linux, macOS, Windows, web, API, and self-hosted setups. Pa11y 10 requires Node.js 22.13.0 or newer on an even-numbered release.