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telemetry.dev vs Testifly

telemetry.dev and Testifly are both uptime & monitoring tools aimed at developers and small businesses. telemetry.dev costs less, from $25/mo versus $29/mo for Testifly. Only telemetry.dev has a free plan.

telemetry.dev

OpenTelemetry-based tracing, cost tracking and evals for AI agents

Testifly

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

PricingFreemium · $25Paid · $29
Starting price$25/mo$29/mo
Free planYesNo
Free trial—30 days
Built forDevelopers, Small businessesDevelopers, Small businesses, Agencies
Platformswebweb
Country—IL
Rating——

Choose telemetry.dev if

Small teams building AI agents who want affordable tracing, cost tracking, prompt management and evals in one OpenTelemetry-based tool.

  • Standard OpenTelemetry avoids proprietary instrumentation lock-in
  • Free plan needs no credit card
  • Simple per-workspace pricing with unlimited seats on Team

Look elsewhere if: Organizations that need self-hosting, compliance paperwork or full-stack infrastructure monitoring (Datadog, Sentry).

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).

telemetry.dev vs Testifly pricing

telemetry.dev

  • Free$0/mo30,000 units/mo, 14-day retention, 1 project, 2 seats
  • Pro$25/mo500,000 units/mo, 30-day retention, 5 projects, 5 seats
  • Team$50/mo2M units/mo, 90-day retention, unlimited seats, priority support

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

telemetry.dev · Key features

  • One trace per request or agent run with spans for every model and tool call
  • Token, cost, latency and error tracking per span
  • TypeScript and Python SDKs plus any OTLP/HTTP exporter
  • MCP analytics with failures and p95 duration by method and tool
  • Prompt versions, labels and rollouts without a deploy
  • Evals on datasets with LLM judges, code checks and human review

Cons

  • No self-hosted option
  • No legal entity, address or compliance certifications published
  • Free retention is only 14 days

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

telemetry.dev vs Testifly: FAQ

Which is cheaper, telemetry.dev or Testifly?

telemetry.dev starts at $25/mo and Testifly at $29/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.

Do telemetry.dev and Testifly have a free plan?

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

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