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See how Sauce Labs stacks up against the competition.

We offer a few things that the competition can't:

  • Seamless integration to existing Sauce Labs test grids, devices, and pipelines

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SAUCE LABS VS. APPLITOOLS

Catch visual regression issues before your users do

Integrate web and mobile visual testing into your continuous strategy with Sauce Visual. Leverage capabilities that validate your digital experiences and ensure high-quality user engagement. Learn why some of the the top Fortune 500 companies choose Sauce Visual over Applitools.

APPLITOOLS ALTERNATIVE

Why Sauce Visual?

One of the key components of a mobile or web application release is to implement visual testing in the user interface. However, some visual regression tools, such as Applitools, are costly, complex, and overloaded with features that mainly go unused. Sauce Visual provides an alternative to Applitools by offering fast UI test execution, less complexity, and capabilities you actually care about—without overpaying for unnecessary features. Easy setup, up-to-date SDKs, and integration with Sauce Labs' industry-leading infrastructure ensure fast and reliable results that deliver flawless user experiences. With Sauce Visual, you can streamline your UI testing workflow, ship faster with confidence, and ensure consistent, flawless user experiences across all devices and updates.

FEATURE CATEGORIES

Why switch to Sauce Visual?

Sauce Visual delivers seamless UI testing with easy and quick access to comprehensive features that validate digital experiences and ensure high-quality user engagement.

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Cross-browser, Mobile Web and Mobile Native App Support

Run component and ETE tests to identify layout shifts, color issues, and other inconsistencies across every digital platform, ensuring a seamless, polished user experience, every time.

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Fully Integrated Platform

Native integration with Sauce Labs infrastructure, consolidating visual and functional testing into one seamless platform with one login, one API, and one vendor for all our needs.

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Scalable and Fast

Sauce Visual offers scale and rapid test execution across web and mobile devices, with support for leading frameworks like Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest.

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Secure and Unified Testing

Full access to Sauce Connect for secure testing, Error Reporting for mobile app crashes, and deep insights, all under one platform, streamlining the testing process without the need for third-party solutions.

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PDF Support

Automatically compare newly generated PDF outputs against your established PDF baselines. Instantly catch any unintended visual regressions, formatting issues, or data discrepancies in your PDFs.

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Local Selenium Testing

Empower your team to generate visual snapshots locally, significantly accelerating early-stage issue detection and tightening feedback loops. This approach enables faster validation compared to cloud-based snapshot generation.

Enterprise-Ready

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Unified platform for Cross-browser & native mobile visual testing
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Security, Compliance & Accessibility

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For QA Lead & Test Engineer

Leverage massive parallelism and concurrency to execute tests in high-availability environments. Reproduce and debug visual discrepancies directly within web, mobile, and OS conditions, eliminating the need to re-create complex testing environments locally.

Eliminate repetitive manual testing, speed up regression cycles and reduce human error, enabling you to release faster without visual bugs, boosting release confidence and efficiency.

What customers say about Sauce Visual

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Sauce Visual is now our go-to for mobile testing because it lets us handle everything in the cloud, using Sauce Labs infrastructure in one centralized platform.

Roy Tang

Mobile QA Developer at Hootsuite

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Sauce Labs has helped us significantly improve quality metrics — increasing QA test coverage while decreasing QA manual regression testing efforts across multiple browsers and devices.

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Lori Henderson

Director of Quality Assurance at eMoney

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