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 TestDriver
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 TestDriver if you're on a team that will pay $20 / seat and watch the $0.14 / min meter on GitHub PRs. Skip TestDriver if you're people who want a $0 local runner (Playwright).
Best for
Playwright A trace you start at a public $
TestDriver An AI QA engineer on every PR with a public seat + minute card
Free plan
Playwright No free plan
TestDriver No free plan
Lowest paid
Playwright Not published by the vendor
TestDriver Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Playwright Hosted
TestDriver
Watch out
Playwright No hosted cloud runner in core
TestDriver No published $0 production plan
Last checked
Playwright 2026-10-23 · playwright.dev
TestDriver 2026-10-28 · testdriver.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick TestDriver if
teams that will pay $20 / seat and watch the $0.14 / min meter on GitHub PRs.
Read the TestDriver page