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Stably alternative: Monito vs Stably

Stably turns plain-English steps or recordings into Playwright code and keeps cloud edits aligned with repository tests. Source Monito keeps the scenario as plain English and runs a hosted browser. Decide whether a committed test program is the artifact your team wants.

Competitor facts last checked: 2026-10-23.

Stably facts checked 2026-10-23

Stably public facts, checked 2026-10-23
	Stably	Source
Hobby plan	$0/month with $10/month in included credits and up to 1 concurrent browser. Further usage is pay-as-you-go.	Source
Paid plans	Team is $60/month with $60 in credits and up to 50 concurrent browsers. Growth is $250/month with $250 in credits and up to 100 concurrent browsers. Enterprise pricing is custom.	Source
Usage units	Browser time costs $0.01/minute, plus AI tokens at $0.30 to $15 per million tokens. Plans include unlimited team members.	Source
Repository workflow	Connect an existing GitHub or GitLab repository. The CLI supports CI providers including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI and Jenkins.	Source
Coding agents	The docs show Cursor or Claude Code creating tests with Playwright MCP. That workflow uses Playwright's MCP server.	Source
Scheduled runs	Schedules use cron expressions in stably.yaml.	Source

How the workflows differ

Stably compared with Monito
	Stably	Monito
Authoring	Write plain-English steps or record a flow in Stably Cloud, then sync to Playwright code with reviewable changes in Git. Source	Describe the browser journey and expected result in plain English.
Where tests live	Playwright code lives in your repository and stays aligned with cloud edits. Engineers can edit selectors, assertions and retries directly. Source	Scenarios saved in Monito, with Markdown export. No Playwright code export.
Pricing model	Plans include a dollar amount of credits. Usage combines browser minutes and AI tokens, so credits are not a count of test runs. Source	Pro is $79/month for 700 credits. Test runs and Discovery spend credits; see the offer below.
Triggers	The stablyai/stably-runner-action GitHub Action launches tests on Stably's cloud infrastructure from your workflow. Source	Web app, CLI and MCP. Schedules, deploy webhooks and GitHub Actions are available; plan requirements are below.
Maintenance	Autofix triages failures, fixes test code and checks fixes with browser replays. Depending on the trigger, it delivers an automatic PR, a dashboard diff or local file changes. Source	You update the scenario when the expected behavior changes. The agent chooses browser actions during each run.

Where Stably is the better fit

Choose Stably when you already have a Playwright suite or want QA to record flows while engineers review and edit the resulting test code in Git. Source

Choose Stably when you want test repairs delivered as code changes that your team reviews. Its FAQ says changes are proposed without silent mutations. Source

Choose Stably when you want AI assertions, locators, extraction or agent actions inside a Playwright suite through its SDK. Source

Where Monito fits

Use Monito when you want a hosted browser run and report without maintaining a runnable test file. You still write the expected result and decide whether the evidence supports it.

The Monito MCP server lets an AI tool run Monito directly: it checks a URL and expectation in a real browser, returns a verdict with evidence, and lets you save the check as a reusable test.

The hosted server at /api/mcp rejects localhost and private-network URLs; use a deployed preview there.

For a deployed app, schedules and deploy hooks can rerun the same scenario. For work on localhost, the CLI or local MCP server opens a per-run tunnel to the hosted browser.

Monito runs desktop Chromium. It does not test native mobile apps, provide Firefox or WebKit runs, or export Playwright code.

Run a check · Save a scenario · Run on deploys

Monito pricing

Pro is $79/month for 700 credits, counted on the pricing page as about 600 test runs and 5 Discoveries. A test run is 1 credit and Discovery is 20, so the same 700 credits are 700 test runs if you skip Discovery. Team is $199/month for 1,800 credits (about 1,500 tests and 15 Discoveries). Yearly plans cost ten monthly payments ($790 and $1,990) and grant twelve months of credits upfront. If Monito caused the error, that run is free.

50 free test credits every month. Your balance refills to 50 on the 1st of each month (UTC), counting credits reserved by running tests. Unused credits are not added again; purchased credits are kept. Your signup credits count as the first month. Free includes one daily schedule. Verify your email to receive monthly refills. Any schedule other than that one daily schedule, a deploy webhook, GitHub Actions, and a public status page need Pro.

Plans and credit usage

Published benchmark evidence

On the held-out benchmark measured 2026-10-12, the verdict was right on 58 of 60 runs, with 0 false passes in 30 chances (95% upper bound 9.6%). The held-out set covers 5 open-source apps.

On our own corpus, measured 2026-10-05, the verdict was right on 110 of 111 runs, with 0 false passes in 57 chances (95% upper bound 5.2%), and 88 of 111 verdicts cited the required evidence. Neither set is a promise about your app. The held-out set is a small number of real bugs in open-source apps. The corpus is ours. The method and the limits are on the reliability page.

Read the method, results and limits

These public reports are benchmark runs from our team's own corpus. They show a working web journey and a related failure. They are not customer results or a head-to-head evaluation of Stably.

Try a browser journey

Choose a flow, state what should happen and review the evidence from the run.

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Questions

How does Stably charge for runs?

Credits cover browser time at $0.01/minute plus AI tokens at $0.30 to $15 per million tokens. Hobby includes $10/month in credits, Team includes $60 and Growth includes $250. Those amounts are not fixed run allowances. Source

Does Stably silently change tests?

Its FAQ says changes are proposed and reviewed by your team, with no silent mutations. Engineers can edit the Playwright selectors, assertions and retries directly. Source

Which MCP server does Stably's coding-agent guide use?

The guide uses Playwright MCP with Cursor or Claude Code to create tests. It does not establish that Stably provides its own hosted MCP server. Source

What does Monito's free offer include?

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