QA Wolf is a managed service: their team plus AI builds and maintains your suite and verifies every failure. Smoketest is a self-serve product you run yourself: describe a test, and an agent re-runs it in a real browser after every deploy.
Self-serve. No onboarding project, no contract, no queue. Your first run in about two minutes.
QA Wolf and Smoketest both want your critical tests covered. They differ on who does the work, what you operate, and what you end up owning.
QA Wolf's QA engineers and AI build and maintain the suite for you. With Smoketest, you describe a test and the agent runs it.
QA Wolf has a human verify every failure before it reaches you, a real strength at scale. Smoketest hands you the recording, transcript, and result to judge.
QA Wolf runs the suite on their own cloud after an onboarding ramp. Smoketest runs in minutes, self-serve, with nothing to set up.
QA Wolf hands back Playwright code, though it was built to run on their infrastructure. Smoketest leaves nothing to maintain.
Start on the pricing page. Choose the Pro plan. Create a new account with the test email. Complete checkout with the test card. Confirm Pro features are enabled.
Every failed run hands you a recording, a transcript, the result, and the downloadable Playwright trace.
Keep the workflow where QA already works. Smoketest adds execution, evidence, and routing without becoming another board.
A workspace owner authorizes Jira or Linear once. Smoketest keeps Connection identity, permissions, token health, and webhook health visible.
Choose the team or board, exact QA status, direct Passed and Development statuses, then set the URL, Environment, device, and access settings.
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.
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.
QA Wolf prices in two ways. Their managed Coverage as a Service is quote-based, priced per test under management, and includes their team doing the work. Their self-serve platform lists usage rates of one cent per AI credit and fifteen cents per runner minute. Smoketest is $39 per month, or $32 per month billed annually, with 300 run credits, listed on the pricing page. The comparison that matters is a managed service or metered usage versus one flat self-serve price.
No. QA Wolf's team and AI build and maintain your tests and verify every failure for you. Smoketest is self-serve: you describe a test in a sentence, the agent runs it, and you read the result. Nothing to maintain, and no team in the loop.
At scale, yes. QA Wolf builds a broad suite over an onboarding ramp and aims for high end-to-end coverage. Smoketest is built to watch a handful of critical tests you can stand up in minutes. If you want comprehensive coverage handled for you, QA Wolf is the better fit.
QA Wolf hands back standard Playwright code, though it was built to run on their infrastructure, so you keep the files more than the running setup. Smoketest has nothing to own or maintain: you describe a test and the agent runs it.
QA Wolf puts a human in front of every failure, which is a genuine strength against false alarms. Smoketest's agent reads the page on each run instead of saved selectors, and hands you the recording and transcript so you can confirm a failure yourself.
If you have no QA, no time, and want a handful of money-path tests watched today, Smoketest is built for that. If you're funded and want broad coverage taken off your plate by a team, QA Wolf is the better fit.
Describe one journey you can't ship broken, run it in a real browser, and get a recording and a result in minutes. Self-serve, no onboarding, no contract.
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