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Radar vs Testifly

Radar and Testifly are both uptime & monitoring tools aimed at developers and small businesses. Testifly costs less, from $29/mo versus $149/mo for Radar. Only Radar has a free plan.

Radar

Open-source Kubernetes UI and MCP server for engineers and agents

Testifly

Autonomous AI QA that builds and heals web app tests from a URL

PricingOpen source · $149Paid · $29
Starting price$149/mo$29/mo
Free planYesNo
Free trial14 days30 days
Built forDevelopers, Small businesses, EnterpriseDevelopers, Small businesses, Agencies
Platformsweb, macos, windows, linuxweb
CountryIL · 2023IL
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Choose Radar if

Platform and DevOps teams that want a free open-source Kubernetes UI and a safe way to give AI agents cluster context.

  • Fully featured open-source build under Apache 2.0
  • Single binary and desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, no account needed
  • Read-only MCP endpoint lets agents inspect clusters safely

Look elsewhere if: Teams that need full-stack metrics, logs and APM in one hosted suite (Datadog, Dynatrace).

Choose Testifly if

Small software teams without a dedicated QA engineer who want end-to-end web coverage without writing or maintaining test scripts.

  • No test scripts or selectors to write or maintain
  • Unlimited users on every plan, so the whole team can see results
  • Runs in the cloud, or on-prem behind a firewall from Growth up

Look elsewhere if: Teams that test native mobile apps or want full code-level control over their test suite (Playwright, Checkly).

Radar vs Testifly pricing

Radar

  • Radar OSS$0Apache 2.0, unlimited clusters, one cluster at a time
  • Cloud Free$03 hosted clusters, unlimited users, 100 investigations/mo
  • Team$149/cluster/moScoped RBAC, fleet cost rollup; 20% off annual contracts
  • Enterprise$299/cluster/moSSO, SCIM, SIEM export, self-managed; 20% off annual contracts
  • CustomCustomAnnual contract, air-gapped, data residency, 99.9% SLA

Testifly

  • Starter$29/mo50 tests, 5,000 runs/mo, unlimited users; 20% off yearly
  • Growth$89/mo225 tests, 50,000 runs, blast radius, integrations, on-prem
  • Business$249/mo750 tests, 200,000 runs, 2 projects, unlimited environments
  • EnterpriseCustomCustom limits, dedicated support, custom contract terms

Radar · Key features

  • Issues queue that groups failures by root cause and blast radius
  • Live topology graph and resource browser for any conformant cluster
  • Event and change timeline with diffs beyond the one-hour default
  • Helm release views with upgrades and rollbacks
  • Argo CD and Flux drift detection, diagnosis and sync
  • Cluster audit with 44 best-practice checks

Cons

  • Per-cluster pricing gets expensive for large fleets
  • Radar Cloud SSO and SCIM only on the $299 Enterprise plan
  • Team plan keeps just 3 days of timeline history

Testifly · Key features

  • Autonomous flow discovery that maps pages and features from a URL
  • Zero-authoring end-to-end test generation from the discovered flows
  • Login handling for password, social, magic link or custom flows
  • Self-healing selectors and test updates when feature behavior changes
  • Root-cause analysis with session video replay for failed tests
  • CI/CD gate, staging and production runs, and scheduled monitoring

Cons

  • Web applications only, with no native mobile app testing
  • Jira, Linear, Notion, Slack sync and blast radius need Growth or higher
  • Starter and Growth cover a single project

Radar vs Testifly: FAQ

Which is cheaper, Radar or Testifly?

Testifly starts at $29/mo and Radar at $149/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.

Do Radar and Testifly have a free plan?

Radar has a free plan. Testifly has no free plan, a 30-day free trial.

Not sure yet?