Smoketest vs Momentic

Smoketest vs Momentic: a full suite, or a few tests that matter.

Momentic is an AI-native platform for building a broad, deep test suite your team owns in CI. Smoketest monitors a handful of critical tests, with nothing to maintain. Both author tests in natural language.

No suite to build, no CLI, no CI to wire up. Your first run in about two minutes.

smoketest.sh/dashboard
Board
Tickets currently moving through QA
Development1
Jira · APP-917
Invite member from workspace settings
App QANot tested
Testing2
Linear · WEB-284
Apply annual discount at checkout
Checkout QARunning
Linear · AUTH-126
Recover account with magic link
Authentication QANeeds attention
Passed1
Jira · BILL-442
Show updated invoice after seat change
Billing QAPassed
The problem

Both author tests in words. The scope is the difference.

Momentic and Smoketest both turn natural-language steps into real-browser runs with self-healing locators. They part ways on how much you build and how much you own.

Scope

Momentic builds a broad suite: end-to-end, visual, API, and accessibility, across web and mobile. Smoketest watches three to five critical tests.

Where it lives

Momentic tests live in your repo as YAML and run in CI. Smoketest runs in the cloud with nothing to set up.

What you own

Momentic is a suite your engineering team builds and triages. Smoketest leaves nothing to maintain.

Who it's for

Momentic targets engineering teams investing in deep coverage. Smoketest targets small teams with no QA.

What a test looks like

No selectors. No test file.

you write
Start on the dashboard.
Open billing.
Upgrade to the Pro plan with the test card.
Confirm Pro features are enabled.
smoketest does the rest
Opens a real browser and runs each step
Pulls test credentials from your Persona secrets
Records the full session
Returns a pass or fail result with its reasoning
Saves the transcript, screenshots, and a Playwright trace
Smoketest vs Momentic

Smoketest vs Momentic, at a glance.

Momentic
Smoketest
Scope
End-to-end, visual, API, accessibility; web and mobile
A few critical browser tests
Authoring
Natural-language steps as YAML in your repo
A sentence or two, nothing to store
Where it runs
Your CI, a CLI, or their cloud
The cloud, nothing to wire up
What you maintain
A suite your team builds and triages
Nothing
A run gives you
Results and replays in the suite
Recording, transcript, and a result
Pricing
Free tier, then $125/month plus usage; enterprise by quote
$39/month flat, listed publicly
Who it's for

Momentic or Smoketest?

Smoketest is the better fit when you

Want a few money-path tests watched, not a broad suite to build
Have no QA engineer and no CI test pipeline to own
Want to start in minutes and keep nothing to maintain
Care most about whether the test still works after each deploy

Momentic is the better fit when you

Want broad, deep coverage: end-to-end, visual, API, and accessibility
Have an engineering team to build and own a suite in CI
Want self-healing tests that explore the app and expand over time
Are standardizing automated testing across many tests and teams
Use cases

Cover the tests that matter.

Login

→User logs in with email and password and lands on the dashboard.

Checkout

→User adds an item, checks out with the test card, and sees the order confirmation.

Onboarding

→New user signs up, completes the setup wizard, and reaches an empty project.

Billing

→User upgrades to Pro and the workspace shows Pro features enabled.

Magic link

→User requests a magic link, opens it, and lands authenticated.

PR previews

→Your critical tests, pointed at the pull request's preview URL.
When it fails

The whole story, not just a red X.

Every failed run hands you a recording, a transcript, the result, and the downloadable Playwright trace.

signup-test.webm
00:00↑ 00:06 · sign-up00:07
step log
Opened /pricing
Clicked “Start free”
Filled email · password
Submitted sign-up form
Expected dashboard · got 500 error
Session recording
Screenshot at failure
Step-by-step transcript
Downloadable Playwright trace
How it works

Jira or Linear starts the Test.

Keep the workflow where QA already works. Smoketest adds execution, evidence, and routing without becoming another board.

workspace · connections
Lhealthy
Linear
Acme workspace
Jhealthy
Jira
acme.atlassian.net
01

Connect Jira or Linear

A workspace owner authorizes Jira or Linear once. Smoketest keeps Connection identity, permissions, token health, and webhook health visible.

new test source
Listen to
Checkout board · QA
Passed
Ready to release
Failed
Development
Run at
staging.acme.com · Desktop
Permissions and direct transitions validated
02

Define the QA handoff

Choose the team or board, exact QA status, direct Passed and Development statuses, then set the URL, Environment, device, and access settings.

test request · attempt 1
WEB-284 enters QA
Ticket + linked PR frozen
Generated Test created
Browser Run in progress
03

Let the ticket start testing

When a ticket enters QA, Smoketest freezes current context, enriches it from an eligible ticket-linked pull request, generates one Test, and runs it automatically.

result · synchronized
PASSEDWEB-2841m 42s
Attempt comment updated with evidence
Authenticated recording and transcript linked
QAReady to release
04

Return the Result safely

Smoketest posts evidence to one evolving Attempt comment. Passed moves forward, Failed returns to Development, and No Result stays in QA. Newer human changes always win.

FAQ

Teams comparing us to Momentic ask these.

Both author tests in natural language with self-healing locators, so the difference isn't AI. It's scope. Momentic is a platform for building a broad suite your team owns in CI. Smoketest watches a few critical tests with nothing to maintain.

Smoketest is built to cover your money-path tests, not to be a full test platform. If you need deep coverage across end-to-end, visual, API, and mobile, owned by an engineering team, Momentic is built for that.

No. There's no suite, YAML, CLI, or CI to set up. You describe each test in a sentence and run it, and the agent handles the rest.

A recording, a step-by-step transcript, a pass or fail result with reasoning, and a downloadable Playwright trace.

About two minutes for the first test: paste a URL, describe the steps, run it once, then schedule it or fire it on each deploy.

Watch the tests that matter most.

Pick three tests you can't ship broken, describe each in a sentence, and run them in a real browser. No suite to build, nothing to maintain.

Read the docs