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Cypress vs Playwright: catalog facts
Cypress	Playwright
Freemium The Cypress App is free and open source; hosted Cypress Cloud features are paid.	Free Free and open source.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Tests run in a real browser with step-by-step replay End-to-end and component testing in one tool	One API across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit Auto-waiting and retrying assertions reduce flaky tests
Tests are written in JavaScript or TypeScript Some AI and collaboration features belong to paid services	Requires writing test code Downloads its own browser builds, which take disk space
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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