Build vs buy

An AI test run is easy. A suite that runs on every release is the hard part.

vikingQA catches bugs before your customers do. Keeping a test suite fast, up to date and running on every release is a product in itself. That product is what we built, and the tests stay yours.

Home-made setup
vikingQA
Test maintenance
Home-made setup

Who repairs your tests each time your interface changes?

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Self-healing tests: when your application changes and a test is out of date, the agent explores again and heals the test.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 change by itself, or your team reviews it first.

Flake control
Home-made setup

When a test fails now and then, who decides if it is a real bug or a flaky test?

vikingQA

Tests run as plain Playwright code in isolated browsers, with retries. Each failure comes with video and trace, so the decision takes minutes.

Cloud execution and parallelism
Home-made setup

Will you build orchestration, retries, isolation, logging and storage to run tests at scale?

vikingQA

Tests run in isolated browsers in the vikingQA cloud, with orchestration, scheduling and evidence storage included. You can also run them on your own infrastructure. You control how many run in parallel in each batch.

Product knowledge
Home-made setup

Does your setup remember how your product works, or does it start from zero in every session?

vikingQA

Each session starts from your test suite and your project description. The agent also reads the documents and tickets you connect, in Confluence, Notion, Jira or Linear.

Clients and external testers
Home-made setup

Is your internal setup good enough to put in front of clients and external testers?

vikingQA

A finished product you can give to clients, agencies and acceptance testers, with a role for external users.

Reporting
Home-made setup

Who builds the dashboards and the Slack alerts, and who collects the logs when something breaks?

vikingQA

Video, Playwright trace, network log and console log for every run. The agent files the issue in Jira or Linear and posts to Slack when you ask it. Automatic Slack alerts on a failed batch are on our roadmap.

Platform layer
Home-made setup

Who builds sign-in, roles, the audit log and security, and who keeps them running?

vikingQA

Sign-in, roles and project-scoped API tokens are part of the product on day one. Single sign-on, an audit log with export and an uptime commitment are on our roadmap.

Repository and CI
Home-made setup

Who keeps test generation, CI and reporting connected in your repository?

vikingQA

Plain Playwright in your repository. Run it in the vikingQA cloud or in your own CI. No proprietary runner.

Stack and model upkeep
Home-made setup

Who follows new models, API changes and browser updates?

vikingQA

We do. Your tests are plain Playwright and keep running when the models change.

Opportunity cost

What in-house maintenance adds up to.

An estimate. It counts test maintenance only. The time to follow model, API and browser changes comes on top.

Test cases in your suite200
Releases per month4
Hours per maintenance incident2h
Fully loaded hourly cost$125

~$8,000/ month

vs. the vikingQA Basic plan at $199/month, with monthly AI credits.

The plan includes a monthly credit allowance. When you reach it, top up in the app. No plan change needed.

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Questions from teams that considered a build.

We already have Playwright tests. Is that not "build" already?

It is a good start, and you keep it. Connect the repository and your suite becomes your test list in vikingQA. The agent adds to it, and heals a test when your application changes: it explores again and updates the test.

What do we own if we buy?

The tests. Your tests are stored in 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.

An AI model can already drive a browser. Why not connect one to our CI?

You can, for one run. Then each run needs the model again, so each run is slow and has an AI cost. vikingQA uses the model to write the test once. After that, a run is code execution.

What does a run cost?

Running your committed Playwright tests costs no AI credits. Credits pay for the agent's work: writing, exploring and healing tests. See pricing

Is vikingQA a managed service?

No. vikingQA is a product your team uses. Your developers, your testers and the agent own the suite together. We do not write your tests for you.

Can we start with a build and move later?

Yes. If your in-house tests are Playwright files in GitHub or GitLab, connect the repository and continue from there.

See it on your own application.

A 30-minute demo, on your product, with your flows.