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How stateofpixel compares.
Chromatic and Percy render in their own browsers. Argos and Lost Pixel use your CI, like we do. Their 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, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
$0 vs $12,609 a month for 360,000 screenshots
Read the comparisonShutting downLost 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.
Price it for your suite. Move the sliders. Every tool here bills for this many screenshots a month, except stateofpixel.
Screenshots a month360,000
ChromaticPro + 275,000 extra$2,599 /moArgosPro + 325,000 extra$1,400 /moPercyDesktop 25k + 335,000 extra$12,609 /mo$16,800 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 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.
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