Our take
Pick Cypress if teams who will stay on the MIT App + Cloud Starter (500 results / month) while they Replay a first failed heroes.cy.ts, then Team at $67/month ($799/year) when they need flake analytics — not Business $267 first unless they need SSO and spec prioritization. Pick Playwright if teams who will stay on the OSS runner at $0 while they open a first Trace Viewer — then add their own CI, not Cypress Cloud
Best for
Cypress Browser tests you start at a public $
Playwright A trace you start at a public $
Free plan
Cypress $0 · ), MIT. Local / CI without --record
Playwright No free plan
Lowest paid
Cypress Cloud Team $67/mo
Playwright Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Cypress Cloud Business $267/mo
Playwright
Runs where
Cypress
Playwright Hosted
Watch out
Cypress Cloud Starter caps recorded results at 500 / month
Playwright No hosted cloud runner in core
Last checked
Cypress 2026-10-23 · cypress.io/pricing
Playwright 2026-10-23 · playwright.dev
teams who will stay on the MIT App + Cloud Starter (500 results / month) while they Replay a first failed heroes.cy.ts, then Team at $67/month ($799/year) when they need flake analytics — not Business $267 first unless they need SSO and spec prioritization.
Read the Cypress pageteams who will stay on the OSS runner at $0 while they open a first Trace Viewer — then add their own CI, not Cypress Cloud Team $67 first unless they want Cypress’s hosted dashboard.
Read the Playwright page
