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SAUCE LABS VS. BROWSERSTACK

Enterprise-ready partner for continuous quality

From the creators of Selenium and Appium, Sauce Labs has powered over 7 billion secure tests for the web, mobile and CX teams behind the world’s most valuable digital portfolios. Learn why enterprises trust Sauce Labs over BrowserStack to transform quality into a competitive differentiator.

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BROWSERSTACK ALTERNATIVE

Why Sauce Labs?

Are you frustrated that increased investment in quality is not doing enough to eliminate bottlenecks and minimize the risk of escaped defects? You’re not alone: 41% or more developer time is spent on testing apps and remediating issues rather than coding apps and shipping digital innovation faster. Learn how to close gaps in quality by switching to Sauce Labs, the only all-in-one platform for continuous quality in big, complex test suites. With Sauce Labs, make the most of your investment in quality with proven enterprise solutions to improve DORA metrics, DevEx, and time to remediation and continuous improvement. What do we offer?

FEATURE CATEGORIES

Why switch to Sauce Labs?

Sauce Labs accelerates testing across the SDLC with coverage you can’t beat.

Enterprise-Ready

Sauce Labs’ Platform for Test is a one-stop automation shop for enterprise-grade test infrastructure, observability and quality insights to efficiently optimize quality at speed and cost of quality.



Security, Compliance, and Accessibility

Sauce Labs takes security and corporate responsibility seriously by complying with the strictest data protection, privacy and accessibility regulations. Onboarding services include best practices and benchmarking support.



Web Testing

Optimize workloads across any web testing framework, including Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebDriver, and more. Orchestrate testing across the widest breadth of device (INTEL and ARM), OS and browser combinations.



Mobile Testing

Designed for the modern mobile test pyramid, only Sauce Labs unifies mobile app testing with crash and error reporting across the broadest range of real devices, Android emulators and iOS simulators.



Observability and Quality Management

Achieve DevOps levels of efficiency, velocity and risk management by consolidating testing on a Platform for Test. With Sauce Labs, optimize TestOps and DevEx with a shared source of real-time and historic truth.



Enterprise-Ready

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Massive Parallel Testing and Concurrency
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Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Mobile Testing and Digital Quality
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Customer Success and Optional Premium Services
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Widest Breadth of Device and OS Combinations
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BrowserStack

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(Limited) Massive Parallel Testing and Concurrency
Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Mobile Testing and Digital Quality
Customer Success and Optional Premium Services
Widest Breadth of Device and OS Combinations

Security, Compliance, and Accessibility

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ISO 27001 and ISO 27701
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KY3P Compliance
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Proxy Tunneling with Performance Observability
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Approved Partnership with Deque (accessibility testing) with Deque axe™ Integration
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BrowserStack

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Soc 2 Type II
ISO 27001 and ISO 27701
KY3P Compliance
Proxy Tunneling with Performance Observability
Approved Partnership with Deque (accessibility testing) with Deque axe™ Integration

Web Testing

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Live and Automated Testing
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ARM Support for Real Devices and Emulators/Simulators
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Accessibility Testing
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Visual Testing (Web)
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Low-Code Testing with Self-Healing
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BrowserStack

App Distribution and Beta Testing
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Live and Automated Testing
ARM Support for Real Devices and Emulators/Simulators
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(Limited) Accessibility Testing
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Visual Testing (Web)
Error Reporting with Fast Root-Cause Analysis

Mobile Testing

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Private Real Devices
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Live and Automated Mobile Testing with Emulators/Simulators
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(Mobile) Visual Testing
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Mobile App Diagnostics
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BrowserStack

Private Real Devices
Live and Automated Mobile Testing with Emulators/Simulators
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(Mobile) Visual Testing
(Mobile) Accessibility Testing (Availability Unknown)
Mobile App Diagnostics

Observability and Quality Management

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Debugging and Intelligent Insights
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Seamless Provisioning of Any Public, Private or Virtual Devices for Web, Hybrid and Native Apps
Flex Capacity for Limitless Bursting, Quality Gating and More
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Crash and Error Reporting
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Test Orchestration
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Test Case Management
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CDP Support
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Debugging and Intelligent Insights (Limited)
Seamless Provisioning of Any Public, Private or Virtual Devices for Web, Hybrid and Native Apps
Flex Capacity for Limitless Bursting, Quality Gating and More
Crash and Error Reporting
Test Orchestration
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Test Case Management (Limited)
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CDP Support

Additional Features

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Enhanced Private Device Management with App Distribution
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Geolocation Mocking
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Appium Inspector
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Logs, Session Records, and GPS
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Screen Reader (Talkback/Voiceover)
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Camera Upload and Android File Upload
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BrowserStack

Enhanced Private Device Management with App Distribution
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Geolocation Mocking
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Appium Inspector
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Logs, Session Records, and GPS
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Screen Reader (Talkback/Voiceover)
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Camera Upload and Android File Upload

ONE PLATFORM FOR ALL TEAMS

For Developers and QE Teams

Better Coverage and Confidence

Scale testing with massive parallelism and concurrency in high-availability, secure tunnels.



Faster Time to Remediation

Optimize DevEx with efficient troubleshooting and debugging. Reduce dev effort to ship faster, more frequently.



For Web and Mobile Team Leaders

Continuous Improvement

Get quality insights throughout the SDLC (including production) to predict, fix and prevent escaped defects.



Stable Delivery Pipelines

Understand failure patterns to minimize the risk of bottlenecks. Optimize quality at speed and cost of quality.



For Enterprise and CX Leaders

Risk Management

Work with local enterprise success teams in the U.S. and Europe to transform velocity, efficiency and risk. Privately beta test and distribute apps.



Cost of Quality

Maximize the efficiency of test infrastructure for modern testing pyramids. Scale testing with benchmarking confidence.



Trusted for Continuous Quality at Scale

But don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what analysts and our customers are saying:

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“Sauce Labs is the one-stop shop for all our software quality needs.” – Chuan Au, Vice President of Quality Assurance at eMoney Advisor

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"Walmart has saved 750,000+ FTE hours with improved developer productivity and higher release confidence."


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“Sauce Labs customers achieve an ROI of 217% over 3 years with payback in less than 6 months.”


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“Sauce Labs customers report a 150% reduction in false-negatives and feature rollbacks, and a 75% reduction in breaking changes.”


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Sauce Labs vs. BrowserStack

Sauce Labs vs. BrowserStack

See how Sauce Labs stacks up against the competition. We offer a few things that the competition can't:

  • Emulators & Simulators

  • Mobile app distribution

  • Beta test management

  • Error & crash reporting

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