Our take
Pick Chromatic if frontend teams who will stay on Free at $0 (5,000 billed snapshots, Chrome-only) while they open a first PR Activity list, then buy Starter at $179 / month (35,000 snapshots) or Pro at $399 / month (85,000 snapshots) when they need extra browsers or a larger snapshot bucket. Pick Codecov if repo teams who will stay on Developer Free (open-source unlimited, or 250 private uploads / month for a
Best for
Chromatic Storybook snapshots you review on a PR
Codecov Line coverage you start at $0
Free plan
Chromatic $0 · / month. 5,000 billed snapshots / month (docs copy: equivalent to 25k TurboSnaps). Chrome. Unlimited projects and collaborators. No card
Codecov $0 · open-source unlimited uploads, or a single-user team with small private repos and up to 250 coverage uploads / month
Lowest paid
Chromatic Starter $179
Codecov Team $5
Next step up
Chromatic Pro $399
Codecov
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Chromatic Hosted
Codecov Hosted
Watch out
Chromatic Free is 5,000 billed snapshots / month and Chrome-only
Codecov Developer private uploads cap at 250 / month
Last checked
Chromatic 2026-10-23 · chromatic.com/pricing
Codecov 2026-10-23 · about.codecov.io/pricing
frontend teams who will stay on Free at $0 (5,000 billed snapshots, Chrome-only) while they open a first PR Activity list, then buy Starter at $179 / month (35,000 snapshots) or Pro at $399 / month (85,000 snapshots) when they need extra browsers or a larger snapshot bucket.
Read the Chromatic pagerepo teams who will stay on Developer Free (open-source unlimited, or 250 private uploads / month for a single user) while they open a first Coverage report, then buy Team at $5 / user / month (10 users, 2,500 uploads) or Pro at $12 / user / month.
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