Sauce Labs 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

A great tool to test through different Browsers/OS versions, and mobile testing through multiple mobile make/model/versions

Great! I loved being able to watch back the tests to see exactly where they failed.

This is a good solution to scale your tests to multiple platforms. Cloud services such as SauceLabs allow you to save money and time you could spend for purchasing hardware, configuring it for running tests and maintenance. If you have test for one browser type, scaling it to different browsers types is easy (as all of SauceLabs browsers are driven via single WebDriver API). However, small updates in test code might be necessary due to browser specifics. SauceLabs pricing may look high, however, it is comparable to competitors' pricing. When thinking of cloud service provider you may compare them vs BrowserStack. For some usage plans (especially for small team) you may find cheaper options. Pros : Major browsers on major desktop and mobile platforms supported for both manual and automated tests execution. Parallel test execution. Manual access to the VM in the cloud (e.g., you can pause your test and drive the app in browser view). Managing test run and VMs via REST. Ready java-library available. Ability to record screenshots and video of running tests as well as commands log. Easy accessibility via WebDriver API. Environment spin up time Cons : Very slow support. They keep asking irrelevant questions or don't reply for a few days until they get more or less useful reply. Support speed depends on your account level. Intermittent connection the the browser loss issue (once upon 200 tests). "Non-natural" environment. Some of browsers has additional configuration that makes them a bit different from ones that users have. Not critical in most of cases though. New features released pretty raw. You may get stuck if you'll need to use some of their more rarely used features (e.g. Sauce Connect) as Support is normally slower there and bugfixes come later. New mobile platforms support released with sufficient delay (e.g. Android 6 released in summer 2015 was still not available at the moment of this review: April 2016).

SLs is a staple for our legal company while testing. We use it for manual testing all of our websites, instead of buying hundreds of different devices. You can choose browser/OS combinations that are obsolete but perhaps your company still uses it. It's great that I know I can rely on them having the latest combinations soon after the release of an environment. The con to SL is that it doesn't have horizontal viewing of mobile devices. Our company did have to invest in a tablet and mobile device because we needed to view the horizontal screen.

I went from a local setup running my tests to completely in the cloud with such ease. Sauce Labs makes it very easy to run your existing tests with their services.