Two ways to catch bugs before your customers do. QA Wolf is a managed service: its team builds and maintains your tests. vikingQA is a product: your developers, your business testers and an AI agent build one shared test suite, stored in your own code repository.
Based on public information from qawolf.com.
| Question | QA Wolf | vikingQA |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Managed service. QA Wolf calls it "Coverage-as-a-Service". | Tool. A self-serve product your team uses. |
| Who writes the tests | QA Wolf's team builds the tests. | Your developers, your non-technical testers and the vikingQA agent. |
| Who can contribute | QA Wolf's team does the work. | Developers write code. Non-technical testers record with the browser extension or describe in chat. The AI agent writes the automation. |
| Who keeps the tests working | QA Wolf's team maintains the tests. Its site states "24-hour investigation and maintenance" and "Guaranteed zero flakes". | Self-healing tests: when your application changes and a test is out of date, the agent explores again and heals the test. vikingQA can merge the healed test by itself, or your team reviews it first. You choose. |
| Where the test code lives, and what you keep if you leave | QA Wolf states "No vendor lock-in" with exportable Playwright. | In your own code repository on GitHub or GitLab, in a standard open format, so every test stays if you leave. |
| Test format | Playwright, exportable. | Plain Playwright. |
| Pricing model | The platform is priced by usage. The service is priced by quote. A free trial is available. | A Free plan, a Team plan at €500 a month with 10 seats, and an Enterprise plan by quote. AI credits every month, with top-ups. |
| Best fit | Teams that want another company to build and maintain their end-to-end tests, with a stated coverage target. | Teams that want to own their suite and want developers and business testers to contribute to it. |
QA Wolf
Managed service. QA Wolf calls it "Coverage-as-a-Service".
vikingQA
Tool. A self-serve product your team uses.
QA Wolf
QA Wolf's team builds the tests.
vikingQA
Your developers, your non-technical testers and the vikingQA agent.
QA Wolf
QA Wolf's team does the work.
vikingQA
Developers write code. Non-technical testers record with the browser extension or describe in chat. The AI agent writes the automation.
QA Wolf
QA Wolf's team maintains the tests. Its site states "24-hour investigation and maintenance" and "Guaranteed zero flakes".
vikingQA
Self-healing tests: when your application changes and a test is out of date, the agent explores again and heals the test. vikingQA can merge the healed test by itself, or your team reviews it first. You choose.
QA Wolf
QA Wolf states "No vendor lock-in" with exportable Playwright.
vikingQA
In your own code repository on GitHub or GitLab, in a standard open format, so every test stays if you leave.
QA Wolf
Playwright, exportable.
vikingQA
Plain Playwright.
QA Wolf
The platform is priced by usage. The service is priced by quote. A free trial is available.
vikingQA
A Free plan, a Team plan at €500 a month with 10 seats, and an Enterprise plan by quote. AI credits every month, with top-ups.
QA Wolf
Teams that want another company to build and maintain their end-to-end tests, with a stated coverage target.
vikingQA
Teams that want to own their suite and want developers and business testers to contribute to it.
With a managed service, your team explains a flow to another team, and that team writes the test. With vikingQA, a business analyst or a key user records the flow in the browser, or describes it in chat. The agent writes the test into the same repository your developers use.
Click through your application as usual. The recorder writes down each step.
QA Wolf states that there is no vendor lock-in and that you can export your tests. With vikingQA there is no export step: the agent writes each test straight into your own code repository, in a standard open format. If you cancel, every test stays and keeps running.
For developers: Every test is plain Playwright in your git. Cancel tomorrow and you keep every test. Run in the vikingQA cloud, or in your own CI: the tests are plain Playwright in your repository.
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
test('Guest checkout', async ({ page }) => {
await test.step('Add a product', async () => {
await page.goto('/products');
await page.getByRole('button', {
name: 'Add to cart'
}).first().click();
});
await test.step('Check the cart', async () => {
await expect(page.getByText('1 item'))
.toBeVisible();
});
});vikingQA is hosted in the EU. The security page shows where each kind of data is processed, including the AI model providers. Sending results and evidence to Xray or Zephyr Scale, so that each requirement in Jira shows the test that covers it and the last result, is on our roadmap.
Watch the run again, up to the moment it went wrong.
A managed service and a product solve different problems. QA Wolf is probably the better choice in these situations.
No. vikingQA is a self-serve product. Your team and the vikingQA agent own the suite. We do not write your tests for you.
The agent. Self-healing tests: when your application changes and a test is out of date, the agent explores again and heals the test. vikingQA can merge the healed test by itself, or a person in your team reviews and merges it. You choose.
QA Wolf states that you can export your tests as Playwright. Put the exported tests in your own repository and connect that repository to vikingQA. Your suite becomes your test list.
The models differ. QA Wolf prices its platform by usage and its service by quote. vikingQA has three plans. A Free plan, a Team plan at €500 a month with 10 seats, and an Enterprise plan by quote. With a product, your team also spends its own time: on recording and describing flows and, if you choose it, on review.
QA Wolf is a trademark of its owner. vikingQA is not affiliated with QA Wolf.
A 30-minute demo, on your product, with your flows.