We performed a comparison between LambdaTest and Sauce Labs based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sauce Labs is the winner in this comparison. It is reliable, scalable, robust, and has excellent management features. In addition, Sauce Labs users report a significant ROI. LambdaTest does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"We use the solution for automation testing and monitoring."
"Geolocation testing is as straightforward as ticking checkboxes of browsers, operating systems, and countries."
"It is a scalable solution."
"In case something goes wrong at LambdaTest end, the Support team is extremely responsive to analyze any platform-related issues."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It's user-friendly and offers valuable features for testing, making it a reliable tool."
"Stability-wise, I have not experienced any downtime or other performance issues."
"LambdaTest easily integrates with leading project management, bug tracking, and CI-CD tools like Jira, Asana, Jenkins, Circle CI, and more."
"From an infrastructure support perspective, the number of VMs, browsers installations and versions that we would be maintaining without Sauce Labs would be a lot. This includes not only the infrastructure costs, but also the maintenance costs and people's time. The labor cost associated with maintaining all of that would be considerably high. In terms of efficiency, having concurrent VMs with various browser combinations available has allowed us to run multiple executions by all our teams."
"The solution they provide is very robust. We can quickly connect to their environment with the hub URL. They have a URL that has the entire grid of desktops, web browsers, and mobile devices. They also provide real devices, so you just provide the URL and test your application."
"APPIUM for mobile testing has improved our organization by allowing us to test our website on more devices and browsers than we currently possess."
"It offers the single best solution for integrating deep automated browser testing in a CI/CD pipeline."
"So far, the stability has proven to be quite good."
"The error logging is also very robust. If we run a test through Sauce Labs and there's some sort of issue, a log will appear on the screen. Log messages are usually heinous and horrible... Sauce Labs is incredibly good at saying things like, 'Hey, here is the exact issue. Fix this and you can run the test.' That helps in getting things up and running and executing the way they should."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily test multiple browsers and versions, as well as off-loading our local environments using the SauceCloud."
"I like the dashboard and seeing the test results. As a manager, I like to see the insights of the people using it, understanding the total path and run. I can see all of that as a manager. I also know team members love seeing the dashboard and seeing the test results in real-time."
"We get logged out of the devices if there is some inactivity."
"The scalability is good with Amazon, but IBM had some issues."
"I didn't like the solution's technical support and how they communicated and tried to fix the issues of customers like me."
"I would like to see all of the features available in the freemium plan so that I can test them."
"I feel that the automated screenshot testing takes a little longer on MacOS sometimes."
"Responsive testing UI is a bit cluttered, whereas the LT browser is much better to use."
"The analytics over the automation dashboard can be more intuitive."
"It would be much easier for us to read the test if they provided dashboard analytics."
"We have found that during automated testing this can be very slow. This causes inconsistencies with the tests. It's very difficult to rely on a service when you can't be sure if a test will pass or fail the next time it runs. This means building in a lot of sync time into the tests which in turn slows them down. If this speed could be improved then the service would be much better."
"With the desktop browser, we can inspect any screen with the web developer option, but they should provide something for mobiles so that we can quickly inspect elements on the device. To write the Selenium scripts, we require web locators. We have to capture them from the local and execute the script on Sauce Labs. If Sauce Labs can provide a solution where we can inspect any of the mobile devices online, it will be very helpful for us."
"An image comparison would be a nice feature to include in the Sauce Labs product."
"The only drawback is the speed, it will be good if we have a server in Asia too. It will be great if we can improve speed while initialization and execution."
"They could improve the platform's customer support services."
"As a web product QA team, we sometimes need to spot check some new child site on multiple browsers and OS(es). It was a little time consuming for us since we need to click on each of the browser/OS combinations and start a new session to test. Every sprint, with new features and child pages being added, we mostly need to do the same steps over and over again."
"I would like to see improved network connectivity and it should allow playback for native apps."
"The one issue I have is the 14-day trial that a new user gets for free. I understand the concept of the trial period; however, I think this could be revamped to a free 30-minute run time every few months or after a significant update once the trial period has ended."
LambdaTest is ranked 14th in Functional Testing Tools with 23 reviews while Sauce Labs is ranked 11th in Functional Testing Tools with 113 reviews. LambdaTest is rated 8.8, while Sauce Labs is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of LambdaTest writes "Technical support should be improved, though it has great documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sauce Labs writes "Robust documentation, helpful support representative, good licensing model". LambdaTest is most compared with BrowserStack, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Perfecto and Bitbar, whereas Sauce Labs is most compared with BrowserStack, Perfecto, Bitbar, Tricentis Tosca and Katalon Studio. See our LambdaTest vs. Sauce Labs report.
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