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 Team $67 first unless they want Cypress’s hosted dashboard.
Read the Playwright pagePlaywright vs Playwright MCP
Our take
Pick Playwright if you're on a team 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. Pick Playwright MCP if you're a developer who want a coding agent to drive a real browser for QA, form fills, or screenshots. Skip Playwright MCP if you're people who only need Chrome network / console /
Best for
Playwright A trace you start at a public $
Playwright MCP An agent that clicks, fills, and screenshots through the accessibility tree
Free plan
Playwright No free plan
Playwright MCP $0 · apache-2.0. npx @playwright/mcp@latest. You bring the MCP client
Lowest paid
Playwright Not published by the vendor
Playwright MCP Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
Playwright
Playwright MCP Claude Code
Runs where
Playwright Hosted
Playwright MCP Hosted
Watch out
Playwright No hosted cloud runner in core
Playwright MCP It is not Chrome DevTools
Last checked
Playwright 2026-10-23 · playwright.dev
Playwright MCP 2026-11-01 · github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp
Which one, then?
Pick Playwright MCP if
developers who want a coding agent to drive a real browser for QA, form fills, or screenshots.
Read the Playwright MCP page