Comparison · Applitools
Applitools Eyes and Sybqa both look at what a page renders, but they answer different questions. Eyes is built to catch unintended visual change: you add it to tests you already run, it compares each screenshot with an approved baseline, and your team reviews the differences. Sybqa has no baseline. You paste a link and it reports what is broken on the site today: a journey that fails, a layout that breaks at phone width, an accessibility violation. If your problem is visual drift across releases of a product with a test suite, Eyes is the specialist.
Facts checked
| Point | Sybqa | Applitools Eyes |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Checks a site you point it at and reports evidence of what broke | Visual validation: compares what a page or component renders with an approved baseline using what it calls Visual AI, including layout, typography and WCAG-related differences |
| Where you start | A link and an optional goal. You review the plan before anything runs | Add its SDK to tests you already run. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Appium and Storybook are named integrations; the page describes setup as 1–2 lines of code |
| What you get back | An evidence report (HTML, JSON and JUnit) with screenshots and steps to reproduce; blocked and not-run checks are listed, never counted as passed | Visual differences against the baseline, with the CSS rule, DOM element or layout property behind a difference |
| Approved baselines | None. A run is checked against rules and the journeys in the plan, and compared with the previous run’s findings, not with approved images | The centre of the product: baselines sync with GitHub or GitLab feature branches, and one approval can cover identical changes across viewports |
| Browsers and devices | A real browser at desktop (1440 px), phone (390 px) and narrow (320 px) widths, with axe-core accessibility checks | Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, iOS and Android are listed; its Ultrafast Grid renders across 100+ browser, viewport and device combinations |
| Pipelines | The GitHub Action and API tokens start a saved plan from a pipeline (guide) | GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and CircleCI are named |
| Public pricing | A free plan after sign-up (10 runs a month, no AI review) and a paid plan with AI credits | Starter: $667 a month paid annually, unlimited users, 100,000 component checkpoints or 1,000 page checkpoints. Professional and Enterprise: not published |
They answer different questions and can be used together. See Visual regression testing vs website QA for how to decide which question you need answered first.
Not in the sense Applitools does. Sybqa captures screenshots and layout checks at three widths on each run and compares a run with the previous one on the same target, but it does not keep approved baselines for every page or component and diff each build against them. For that, use a visual testing tool.
Yes. Nothing about one prevents the other. A Sybqa run answers whether a journey works and whether the page fits at phone width; Eyes answers whether anything changed visually since the approved baseline.
Paste a link, review the plan, and read the evidence report. The free plan gives 10 runs a month without AI review after you sign up.