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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

Open-source visual testing platform integrating with Playwright, Cypress and Storybook in CI.

Visual testing and review service from the Storybook team that snapshots stories and Playwright/Cypress tests.

BrowserStack's visual testing platform with cross-browser snapshots and AI-assisted diff review.

Self-hosted visual regression testing for web apps using headless Chrome/Playwright and HTML reports.

Head to head

Metric	Argos	Chromatic	Percy	BackstopJS
Stars	657	n/a	n/a	7.2k
Weekly downloads	199k	11.2M	594k	77.4k
Download growth	+38%	+6%	+3%	-10%
Popularity score	59/100	86/100	71/100	65/100
Forks	71	n/a	n/a	618
Open issues	4	n/a	n/a	576
Last commit	5d ago	n/a	n/a	4w ago
Latest version	6.11.0	18.14.3	1.32.12	6.3.25
License	MIT	n/a	n/a	MIT
First released	2016	n/a	n/a	2014
Signals	Rising	Popular	None	None
Listed in	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing

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Open-source visual testing platform integrating with Playwright, Cypress and Storybook in CI.

Visual testing and review service from the Storybook team that snapshots stories and Playwright/Cypress tests.

BrowserStack's visual testing platform with cross-browser snapshots and AI-assisted diff review.

Self-hosted visual regression testing for web apps using headless Chrome/Playwright and HTML reports.

Metric	Argos	Chromatic	Percy	BackstopJS
Stars	657	n/a	n/a	7.2k
Weekly downloads	199k	11.2M	594k	77.4k
Download growth	+38%	+6%	+3%	-10%
Popularity score	59/100	86/100	71/100	65/100
Forks	71	n/a	n/a	618
Open issues	4	n/a	n/a	576
Last commit	5d ago	n/a	n/a	4w ago
Latest version	6.11.0	18.14.3	1.32.12	6.3.25
License	MIT	n/a	n/a	MIT
First released	2016	n/a	n/a	2014
Signals	Rising	Popular	None	None
Listed in	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing	Testing & QA › Visual Regression Testing

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