How stateofpixel compares.
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Chromatic, Percy, Applitools and Happo render in their own browsers. Argos and Lost Pixel use your CI, like we do, and BackstopJS runs wherever you run it. The paid plans bill per screenshot. We bill for storage.
Every fact about them links to its source, checked on 27 September 2026.
ChromaticRenders in its own cloud and bills every story, browser and mode.- Takes the screenshots
- Chromatic's Capture Cloud, from your Storybook or a test archive.
- Bills for
- Snapshots: tests x builds x browsers x modes. A TurboSnap copy costs a fifth of one.
- Git hosts
- GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.
$0 vs $2,599 a month for 360,000 screenshots
Read the comparisonArgosScreenshots from your CI, compared on its servers, billed per screenshot.- Takes the screenshots
- Your CI, through an SDK or the CLI.
- Bills for
- Screenshots. Every snapshot stored for a build counts.
- Git hosts
- GitHub and GitLab.
$0 vs $1,400 a month for 360,000 screenshots
Read the comparisonPercyRenders your DOM again in its own browsers, billed per screenshot.- Takes the screenshots
- Percy, from a DOM snapshot of your page.
- Bills for
- Screenshots: pages x browsers x widths.
- Git hosts
- GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.
$0 vs $12,609 a month for 360,000 screenshots
Read the comparisonApplitoolsRenders in its own grid. Plans start at $667 a month, billed yearly.- Takes the screenshots
- Applitools' Ultrafast Grid, from the DOM your test captures.
- Bills for
- Checkpoints a month, counted per page or per component.
- Git hosts
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
HappoRenders in its own browsers and bills every snapshot in every browser.- Takes the screenshots
- Happo's browser workers, from the suite the CLI uploads.
- Bills for
- Snapshots a month. One snapshot is one variant in one browser.
- Git hosts
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
$0 vs $1,109 a month for 360,000 screenshots
Read the comparisonLost PixelShutting down. The team joined Figma and the repository is archived.- Takes the screenshots
- Your CI, in the Lost Pixel Docker image with Playwright.
- Bills for
- Screenshots a month.
- Git hosts
- GitHub.
BackstopJSRuns on your machine. Last release in September 2024.- Takes the screenshots
- Your machine or CI, with Puppeteer or Playwright, optionally in its Docker image.
- Bills for
- Nothing. It is MIT licensed software you run yourself.
- Git hosts
- No integration. CI gets a JUnit report.
Price it for your suite.
Screenshots a month360,000
ChromaticPro $399 + 275,000 extra at $8 per 1,000$2,599 /moArgosPro $100 + 325,000 extra at $4 per 1,000$1,400 /moPercyDesktop 25k $549 + 335,000 extra at $36 per 1,000$12,609 /moHappoPro $749 + 60,000 extra at $6 per 1,000$1,109 /mo$13,308 a year less than the cheapest of them.
Screenshots are stories x viewports x browsers x builds. For stateofpixel, 5% of screenshots change per build at 80 KB each, and pull request images are kept 60 days. The cheapest list plan for each tool, before tax, from Chromatic pricing, Argos pricing, Percy pricing, Happo pricing on 27 September 2026. TurboSnap can lower Chromatic's count. Argos charges $0.0015 for extra Storybook screenshots. Percy prices are month to month; yearly billing is lower. Happo counts each browser as its own snapshot.