Comparison · figures checked 13 October 2026
Testmo alternatives, and when Testmo is the right call
Testmo is a good tool built for QA teams. People look elsewhere when there is no QA team, when five paid seats is more than they need, or when the people who must act on a failure are developers, PMs and clients rather than testers.
Testmo's figures were read off its own pricing page on 13 October 2026; the others come from our 23 September check. Pricing moves, so follow the links before you plan around a number.
| Tool | Free tier | Seats when free | The limit that bites | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qarunbook | Yes | 1 person, 1 app; Team is $29 a month flat for up to 15 | Not a TCMS: no versioned case library, no JUnit or XML result import, no trend reporting | A team whose developers, testers, PM and client all need to see what to check, what failed and what to retest, per platform |
| Testmo | No, trial only | — | Team $59 a month with 5 users; Business $249 with 15; Enterprise $599 with 25. Cloud only, no on-premise edition | QA teams mixing manual, exploratory and automated runs who want them in one place |
| Qase | Yes | Up to 4 | 2 projects, 2 active runs, 30-day history; paid is $35 per user with a five-user minimum (checked 23 September) | Four people who want a TCMS with automation reporters |
| Testiny | Yes | Up to 3 | 1,000 items in total across cases, plans and runs (checked 23 September) | Three people who want something modern and intend to stay small |
| Kiwi TCMS | Yes, open source | Unlimited | You host it, patch it and back it up yourself | Teams whose data cannot leave their own servers |
What Testmo costs now
There is no free plan, only a trial. Team is $59 a month and includes five users, with unlimited projects, cases, runs and automation results, and integrations with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear and CI. Business is $249 a month with 15 users and adds the reporting center, custom roles and project admins. Enterprise is $599 a month with 25 users and adds SSO, two-factor enforcement, an audit log and automation launching. Annual plans save 15%. Testmo is cloud only. Source: testmo.com/pricing.
When you should stay on Testmo
If automated tests produce most of your results, stay. Testmo takes unlimited automation results from any framework through its CLI, and puts them beside manual and exploratory sessions in one run. Its reporting, burndown and coverage views are built for a QA lead answering to a release manager. qarunbook does not import JUnit or XML results and does not report trends across releases. If that is the job, Testmo does it well.
Where qarunbook is different
Tools like Testmo, TestRail and Qase are organised around a professional QA team: a case library, runs built from it, and reports about them. qarunbook is organised around your app and every platform it runs on, and it tells each person on the team what they need to do their part. A check can pass on web and fail on iOS. A developer sees the issues raised against their platform; a tester sees what is waiting for a retest; a client sees how far the testing has got. Your AI can read the same board over MCP and record what it checked under its own name.
Issues reach it from wherever people report them: Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, Sentry, PostHog, Zapier or a webhook. Each lands on the app and the platform it affects, can be copied to Jira, Linear, GitHub or GitLab, and when a fix is merged the check goes back for a retest instead of passing on its own. When the fix is confirmed, the place the issue came from is told. Every integration and the API are on every plan, Free included. See the docs.
The price is flat per workspace, never per seat: Free is one person and one app with every feature, Team is $29 a month for up to 15 people, and Business is $79 a month for up to 50.
What qarunbook is not
- A versioned case library. Checks belong to an app's runbook. There is no shared repository of cases with review and approval.
- Somewhere automation results land in bulk. Results can be reported through the API, one check at a time, but there is no JUnit or XML import.
- A reporting suite. It shows the state of this release on each platform, not trends across releases.
What moving actually involves
Export the manual cases you still run by hand from Testmo as CSV, and give the file to qarunbook when you add an app. AI reads it into sections and checks, whatever its layout, and you review every check before it is saved. If the app's code is on GitHub, qarunbook can also write the checklist from the code and match it against the checks you imported. Keep your automation reporting wherever it lives today.