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

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