mabl alternative
DontBreak vs mabl
mabl is an AI testing platform for engineering and QA organisations. DontBreak is a smaller tool with published prices, for teams that want their key web flows checked without code. Which one fits depends mostly on the size of your team and what you need to test.
Facts and prices checked 7 October 2026
Who each one is for
mabl
mabl is an AI-driven testing platform for larger engineering and QA teams: web, native mobile, API, performance and accessibility testing in one place, sold on a quote with a customer success manager.
DontBreak
DontBreak is for product people, founders and agencies who own a checkout, signup or form and want to know when it breaks. You build each step in a live browser by choosing an action and pointing at the element, and DontBreak runs the flow on a schedule or after each deploy.
At a glance
Pricing
- DontBreak
- Published: from $79/mo billed annually ($99 monthly)
- mabl
- Quote only. Credit-based, with “a starting point of 500 credits per month”
Trial
- DontBreak
- 14 days, no card, up to 500 runs
- mabl
- 14-day free trial
Building a test
- DontBreak
- In a live cloud browser: choose an action, point at the element, test the step
- mabl
- Low-code point-and-click, plus tests written from a description, user story or Jira ticket; JavaScript and Appium snippets
How steps find elements
- DontBreak
- By how the element looks, the same way on every run; “Use DOM locators” as a per-step fallback
- mabl
- AI auto-healing; its site says “Locators use visual context and multiple attributes”
Browsers
- DontBreak
- Chrome and Firefox
- mabl
- Chrome, Firefox, Safari (WebKit) and Edge
Native mobile apps
- DontBreak
- No. Websites at mobile screen sizes only (emulated)
- mabl
- iOS and Android, as a paid add-on
Other testing
- DontBreak
- Email steps and AI Check steps inside browser flows
- mabl
- API, performance, accessibility and email workflows
Checks running at once
- DontBreak
- 20 / 50 / 100 by plan
- mabl
- Unlimited
CI
- DontBreak
- A GitHub Action that fails the GitHub check after a deploy; an API for other CI
- mabl
- GitHub pull-request checks, GitLab, Jenkins and a CLI; local and CI runs are free
Alerts
- DontBreak
- Email and Slack; Jira, GitHub Issues and Trello tickets that open on failure and close on recovery
- mabl
- Slack and Microsoft Teams; Jira for defects
Enterprise features
- DontBreak
- No SSO or SOC 2
- mabl
- SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML and role-based access
Support
- DontBreak
- Email support (priority on Team and Agency) and a free founder setup call
- mabl
- Live 24/5 support and a customer success manager
| Feature | DontBreak | mabl |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Published: from $79/mo billed annually ($99 monthly) | Quote only. Credit-based, with “a starting point of 500 credits per month” |
| Trial | 14 days, no card, up to 500 runs | 14-day free trial |
| Building a test | In a live cloud browser: choose an action, point at the element, test the step | Low-code point-and-click, plus tests written from a description, user story or Jira ticket; JavaScript and Appium snippets |
| How steps find elements | By how the element looks, the same way on every run; “Use DOM locators” as a per-step fallback | AI auto-healing; its site says “Locators use visual context and multiple attributes” |
| Browsers | Chrome and Firefox | Chrome, Firefox, Safari (WebKit) and Edge |
| Native mobile apps | No. Websites at mobile screen sizes only (emulated) | iOS and Android, as a paid add-on |
| Other testing | Email steps and AI Check steps inside browser flows | API, performance, accessibility and email workflows |
| Checks running at once | 20 / 50 / 100 by plan | Unlimited |
| CI | A GitHub Action that fails the GitHub check after a deploy; an API for other CI | GitHub pull-request checks, GitLab, Jenkins and a CLI; local and CI runs are free |
| Alerts | Email and Slack; Jira, GitHub Issues and Trello tickets that open on failure and close on recovery | Slack and Microsoft Teams; Jira for defects |
| Enterprise features | No SSO or SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML and role-based access |
| Support | Email support (priority on Team and Agency) and a free founder setup call | Live 24/5 support and a customer success manager |
Which one to choose
Choose mabl if…
- You need Safari or Edge, or testing for native iOS and Android apps.
- You want web, API, performance and accessibility testing in one platform, with unlimited checks at once.
- You need enterprise features such as SSO, SOC 2 Type II and a dedicated customer success manager.
Choose DontBreak if…
- You want to see the price before you talk to anyone, and start today.
- You're a small team, founder or agency that owns a checkout, signup or form flow, not a QA department.
- You want steps that find elements by how they look, the same way on every run, with no AI model choosing what to click.
Pricing compared
mabl doesn't publish its prices or how many credits a run uses, so a per-run comparison isn't possible. Here's what DontBreak costs for the same needs.
8 flows checked every hour (about 5,760 runs a month)
- DontBreak
- Solo: $79 ($99 monthly)
- mabl
- Quote
20 flows checked every hour (about 14,400 runs a month)
- DontBreak
- Team: $149 ($186 monthly)
- mabl
- Quote
40 flows checked every hour (about 28,800 runs a month)
- DontBreak
- Agency: $319 ($399 monthly)
- mabl
- Quote
| What you need | DontBreak | mabl |
|---|---|---|
| 8 flows checked every hour (about 5,760 runs a month) | Solo: $79 ($99 monthly) | Quote |
| 20 flows checked every hour (about 14,400 runs a month) | Team: $149 ($186 monthly) | Quote |
| 40 flows checked every hour (about 28,800 runs a month) | Agency: $319 ($399 monthly) | Quote |
- Prices are per month with annual billing; monthly billing is in brackets. US dollars, before tax.
- mabl's credits are shared across browser, mobile, API, performance and accessibility tests. Its local and CI runs are free and unlimited.
Prices checked 7 October 2026 on mabl's pricing page: mabl pricing. DontBreak's prices are on our pricing page.
Questions
- How much does mabl cost?
- mabl doesn't publish prices. Its pricing page offers a quote, with plans built on credits starting from 500 a month. DontBreak's prices are published, from $79 a month billed annually.
- Is there an open-source mabl alternative?
- Playwright is a free, open-source framework, but your team writes and runs the tests in code. DontBreak isn't open source; it builds tests without code and can export them as Playwright scripts.
- Does DontBreak test native mobile apps?
- No. DontBreak tests websites and web apps in Chrome and Firefox, at desktop and mobile screen sizes.
Sources
Everything about mabl on this page comes from its own website and docs, read on 7 October 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@dontbreak.io and we'll fix it.
Product names are trademarks of their owners. DontBreak isn't affiliated with them.
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- DontBreak vs Ghost InspectorRecorder and CSS selectors against steps that find elements by how they look. Ghost Inspector gives more runs per dollar.
- DontBreak vs BugBugUnlimited Chromium runs one at a time, against Chrome and Firefox with many checks at once. BugBug has a free plan.
- DontBreak vs ChecklyPlaywright monitoring as code, with uptime and API monitors, against point-and-click browser checks. Checkly costs less per run.
- DontBreak vs Rainforest QAA QA service that writes and maintains tests for you, against a monitoring tool you run yourself. Rainforest also covers Safari and Edge.
- DontBreak vs PlaywrightFree, open-source code you write and host yourself, against checks anyone can build. Playwright is the right call for code-first teams.
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