It is an expensive tool. I am not sure about the exact pricing, but from what I know, it might range from $24,000 to $70,000. We have more than 60 to 70 VMs, so the cost is on the higher side. For those exploring alternatives, options like Augment or setting up test cases on AWS machines using tools like Harness could offer more cost-effective options.
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
MSP
Feb 10, 2023
Cost-wise, it's decent. If you have to get the base version out of it, it's the best solution to go with. As compared to other cloud service providers, the pricing of Sauce Labs is decent. There are monthly and annual packages, but I'm not much familiar with that part. They might be providing too many things in the package, and all of them might not be useful for people. They can modularize the offering instead of giving it as a whole package.
Sr. IT Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 15, 2022
I believe the price of Sauce Labs is fair. I don't think it's over-priced or under-priced. It's a fair market value for what we're getting. We don't even use all the features, but as new features come out, my role is to educate the teams on ways they can put those features to work. I've scheduled demos in the past, and they're well aware of what Sauce Labs can do. They also understand we're not fully utilizing it, but I've never heard any complaints about pricing. We negotiated with Sauce Labs, but I don't know what kind of deal we got. My role is more along the lines of evaluating the product from a technical application standpoint. License tiers and haggling over price aren't in my wheelhouse.
Tech Lead at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jan 26, 2022
A supply management team deals with pricing and licensing. We look at the utilization of licenses every month and see if we need to purchase new ones then shoot them an email saying we need more. We don't get into the inner workings of licensing and procurement.
Senior Quality Assurance Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 23, 2021
I am not in charge of the licensing costs. They come and ask me, "Do we still need this?" Then, I tell the teams why we need XYZ and the licenses. We did initially go with Sauce Labs because of the pricing and integration.
Director of Quality Assurance - Shared Service at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 19, 2021
With respect to pricing, they did a bundled discount because we went with Sauce Labs for both mobile and browser. They were very competitive on pricing and provided a bundle discount for us as a larger customer. I like the licensing model because it is a system of shared licenses. This is different from BrowserStack, for example, which I didn't like because they charge on a per-user basis. This matters to us because we have a situation where there are heavy users and light users. In this case, we prefer to have shared licensing. Shared licensing is like having a seat at the table and when we have a thousand registered users, it is easy to understand that some are heavy users and some are very light users. With the shared licensing, we don't have to manage the registration of whether they're heavy users or not. We don't worry about that. Rather, we just worry about the consumption of the licenses, which are shared amongst all. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
Sr Staff Software Engineer, QA Enablement at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Dec 16, 2021
The pricing is definitely on the higher end, and there are other options that are more cost-effective. One of our teams that was using Sauce Labs separately decided to go with a different solution that was less costly.
I think a longer trial period would be beneficial. Instead of 14 days look at 28 days due to in part the company that is on the trial period could be busy or possibly busy during the trial period.
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Autodesk, Inc.
Real User
Jul 31, 2020
We have a team that manages all the licenses, and they share the pool with the rest of us. However, we haven't had any problem of running out of concurrent devices/connection because we agree to not running many test in parallel at the same time.
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It is an expensive tool. I am not sure about the exact pricing, but from what I know, it might range from $24,000 to $70,000. We have more than 60 to 70 VMs, so the cost is on the higher side. For those exploring alternatives, options like Augment or setting up test cases on AWS machines using tools like Harness could offer more cost-effective options.
Cost-wise, it's decent. If you have to get the base version out of it, it's the best solution to go with. As compared to other cloud service providers, the pricing of Sauce Labs is decent. There are monthly and annual packages, but I'm not much familiar with that part. They might be providing too many things in the package, and all of them might not be useful for people. They can modularize the offering instead of giving it as a whole package.
I believe the price of Sauce Labs is fair. I don't think it's over-priced or under-priced. It's a fair market value for what we're getting. We don't even use all the features, but as new features come out, my role is to educate the teams on ways they can put those features to work. I've scheduled demos in the past, and they're well aware of what Sauce Labs can do. They also understand we're not fully utilizing it, but I've never heard any complaints about pricing. We negotiated with Sauce Labs, but I don't know what kind of deal we got. My role is more along the lines of evaluating the product from a technical application standpoint. License tiers and haggling over price aren't in my wheelhouse.
A supply management team deals with pricing and licensing. We look at the utilization of licenses every month and see if we need to purchase new ones then shoot them an email saying we need more. We don't get into the inner workings of licensing and procurement.
I am not in charge of the licensing costs. They come and ask me, "Do we still need this?" Then, I tell the teams why we need XYZ and the licenses. We did initially go with Sauce Labs because of the pricing and integration.
Sauce Labs has a pretty reasonable price and is worth it for the solution and what we are doing with it.
With respect to pricing, they did a bundled discount because we went with Sauce Labs for both mobile and browser. They were very competitive on pricing and provided a bundle discount for us as a larger customer. I like the licensing model because it is a system of shared licenses. This is different from BrowserStack, for example, which I didn't like because they charge on a per-user basis. This matters to us because we have a situation where there are heavy users and light users. In this case, we prefer to have shared licensing. Shared licensing is like having a seat at the table and when we have a thousand registered users, it is easy to understand that some are heavy users and some are very light users. With the shared licensing, we don't have to manage the registration of whether they're heavy users or not. We don't worry about that. Rather, we just worry about the consumption of the licenses, which are shared amongst all. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
The pricing is definitely on the higher end, and there are other options that are more cost-effective. One of our teams that was using Sauce Labs separately decided to go with a different solution that was less costly.
I think a longer trial period would be beneficial. Instead of 14 days look at 28 days due to in part the company that is on the trial period could be busy or possibly busy during the trial period.
We have a team that manages all the licenses, and they share the pool with the rest of us. However, we haven't had any problem of running out of concurrent devices/connection because we agree to not running many test in parallel at the same time.
Be sure to plan out your solution before starting the free trial; 14-days goes by rather quickly.
The cost is worth it. Start with a VM farm that you think suits your needs, and then add/subtract VM's if necessary.
It is really cheap and fast.
Highly recommended.
The pricing is clear on the site - I would say it is more expensive than some alternatives.