Real Device Cloud
Secure mobile testing. Any device, anywhere, at scale.
Built for enterprise mobile quality at the pace of AI. Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud provides instant access to thousands of real iOS and Android devices and a programmable, AI-ready infrastructure. With Sauce Real Device Cloud, development teams can ship the mobile experiences customers love, with confidence.
Why teams choose Sauce Real Device Cloud
Ship quality apps, faster
Validate AI-generated code at scale sprint after sprint. Run automated testing across thousands of real devices simultaneously, cut test execution time, and get meaningful feedback in minutes, not hours.
Eliminate the infrastructure burden
Reclaim engineering time for building, not maintaining. Device procurement, OS updates, and hardware refreshes are all handled for you with fully managed testing infrastructure that grows as new devices and OS versions become available
Debug smarter with AI-powered insights
When tests fail, you need answers fast. Leverage deep mobile app diagnostics to surface root causes, catch flaky tests, and resolve issues in minutes. Access detailed device logs, test results, and crash reports so teams ship with confidence.
Improved cost-efficiency
Using a real device cloud can help QA teams save on the costs associated with maintaining in-house device infrastructure — physical device procurement, maintenance, and updates — which can be capital-intensive and resource-heavy.
Built for the way modern teams work
Full lifecycle quality, one platform
Sauce Real Device Cloud sits inside a unified platform that connects real device validation, app distribution, and production monitoring across your entire mobile development lifecycle.
Your choice of public and/or private devices
Different teams have different needs. Public devices give you broad on-demand coverage. Private dedicated pools give you exclusive access and enhanced device management. You get both options and the flexibility to use them together.
Maximized device coverage
Test native and hybrid apps across the broadest range of Android and iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, Xiaomi, and more, and all major screen sizes. When fragmentation is the enemy, breadth is your advantage.
Test like your users do
Test on real mobile devices to validate user flows under real-world conditions — biometric authentication, image injection, GPS simulation, gesture automation, camera input, device sensors, and more. Catch issues in testing, not production.
Accelerated debugging
Pinpoint root causes and fix faster with the most extensive mobile app diagnostic signals — network throttling and capture, network logs, device logs, crash reporting, and native integrations with Appium Inspector, DevTools, and ADB.
Access to real-time vitals
Reduce time to resolve failures with deeper visibility into device and app performance under test, including real-time CPU usage, memory usage, and UI responsiveness across multiple devices.
Debug faster. Ship with confidence.
Test failures that lack context just waste time. Sauce Real Device Cloud comes with the deepest mobile diagnostic suite available — built into every session, not bolted on after the fact. Get complete visibility into test failures, app performance, UI issues, errors, crashes, API and HTTP/S capture, and more. Teams spend less time guessing at root causes and more time resolving them.
What our customers are saying
Hear why developers and testers love Sauce Labs for testing with Android cloud emulators
We don’t have to worry about making sure the devices are healthy or [scaling]. Having Sauce [Labs] manage [devices] saves time for my team on the administration. It’s been much more hands-off. … It’s just nice. It just works.
Sauce Labs customer interviewed by Forrester Consulting
Manager of software test engineering, technology industry
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Real device testing vs. emulators and simulators.
Catching issues early costs a fraction of catching them in production. But not all early-stage testing is equal. Understanding when to use real devices versus emulators is key to a high-quality, efficient mobile testing strategy.
Why real device testing matters
Testing on real devices vs. hardware provides accurate results for performance, UI responsiveness, network conditions, device sensors, battery usage, and user interactions that emulators and simulators simply cannot replicate. Real device testing allows teams to monitor how apps behave under real user conditions — low battery, varying network connectivity, different operating systems, and hardware-specific behavior — which is crucial for delivering a reliable user experience.
Real device testing also validates app behavior that emulators miss entirely: Play Store installation flows, biometric authentication, camera input, GPS simulation, and interactions across different screen sizes and real iOS and Android hardware configurations. When you test on real mobile devices, your test results reflect what users actually experience.
The role of emulators and simulators
Emulators and simulators are fast and cost-effective but lack access to native device features, making them ideal for pairing with real devices for early validation. Emulators and simulators are most valuable in the earliest stages of development — before real device cloud testing catches what they might miss.
Sauce Labs’ scalable, always-available Android emulators and iOS simulators give your team a fast, cost-effective way to validate code earlier in the cycle. Pair with Real Device Cloud for full-cycle quality coverage from first commit to release.
Integrate real device cloud testing into your CI/CD pipeline
Mobile app quality has to keep up with modern delivery cadence — and that means real device testing must be part of your development process from day one. Sauce Real Device Cloud integrates natively with popular CI/CD tools, enabling teams to trigger automated test runs on real iOS and Android devices as part of every build and release workflow.
Parallel test execution at scale: Real device testing significantly reduces test execution time by enabling parallel testing across multiple devices simultaneously. Spin up real Android and iOS devices instantly and run your full test suite in a fraction of the time — essential for fast-paced CI/CD environments.
Remote collaboration, zero friction: With cloud testing, team members access real iOS and Android devices instantly from any location. Remote teams eliminate device availability conflicts and share consistent test environments without shipping physical hardware.
Real-world conditions in every build: CI/CD pipelines that rely solely on emulators miss real-world conditions that matter — network connectivity variations, device-specific operating systems, battery states, and native hardware behavior. Sauce Real Device Cloud ensures every automated test run reflects the experience your users will actually have.
Framework-agnostic test execution: Sauce Real Device Cloud supports popular automation frameworks, including Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest. Whether you’re running cloud testing on native or hybrid mobile apps, your existing test code works without modification.
