HeadSpin vs Tricentis Tosca comparison

HeadSpin and Tricentis are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. HeadSpin is ranked #29, while Tricentis is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0. HeadSpin holds a 0.6% mindshare in FT, compared to Tricentis’s 19.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of HeadSpin users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tricentis users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Tricentis Tosca and HeadSpin are prominent competitors in test automation and performance testing. Tosca is favored for its user-friendly scriptless testing, whereas HeadSpin is praised for its performance testing features.

Features: Tosca offers a model-based approach, scriptless testing, and strong integration support. It's especially effective for SAP, Oracle, and IBM applications. Tosca's BI features and continuous integration support enhance test management. HeadSpin focuses on performance testing, integrating well with other tools. Its unique AV box testing for live streaming quality and strong performance parameters in automation suites are key features.

Room for Improvement: Tosca users highlight object recognition and test case design complexity as areas for enhancement. Compatibility issues during upgrades and browser challenges also exist. HeadSpin could improve its user interface responsiveness, expand code coverage features, and enhance hardware capabilities for better mobile testing and reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tosca primarily offers on-premises and hybrid cloud deployment options, with extensive but sometimes slow customer support. Personalized support is beneficial but community-driven assistance is lacking. HeadSpin focuses on public cloud deployments, offering efficient and consistent customer service, excelling in support availability.

Pricing and ROI: Tosca is expensive with complex licensing, though its comprehensive features justify its high cost, offering strong ROI through streamlined automation. HeadSpin is competitively priced for enterprises, offering good ROI with its testing efficiency and unique features like the AV box testing. Both tools require enterprises to balance cost against integrations and efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

HeadSpin

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

29th

Ranking in Mobile App Testing Tools

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile APM (7th)

Tricentis Tosca

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

1st

Ranking in Mobile App Testing Tools

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

109

Ranking in other categories

Regression Testing Tools (1st), API Testing Tools (1st), Test Automation Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of HeadSpin is 0.6%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tricentis Tosca is 19.9%, up from 16.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Abhishek-Mehta

Associate Vice President at Onnivation

An advanced platform that provides visibility into the performance in the real world and enables us to test AV content

There is definitely room for improvement in terms of marketing. Marketing is something that is not that great. If you look at some of the other companies in the space, they have a lot of published case studies and tested models. They make a lot of noise. They have got some of their best customers talking about them, which is where HeadSpin needs to work. They should automate their onboarding. A lot of things are still manual. They can create a video assistant or something like that to completely automate the entire process. There is a great scope to improve professional services. The time to deploy is quite long. They can increase and improve the scope of their professional services and set up automation through scripts. They do it at this stage, but they're very expensive. I would love to see them come up with project-based costing for companies that are startups or low on funds. Apart from these, they have been on top of the game in terms of features. I can't think of any other new set of features at this point in time because they're already on top in terms of innovation.

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Antonio Oteri

IT Telecom Quality Senior Tester at TIM

Ability to automate tests across various platforms and simplifies test creation

From what I've seen with my colleagues who make the software selection, the prices for this software in Brazil are too expensive to be applied to anything but huge customers. I'm surprised because I was in charge of planning and control at the company before, when there was a manager there. Normally, the company has structural licenses that are based on the company they are selling to. I see that these companies cannot spend this money on Tricentis. I think Tosca is losing this type of market. They should have a different license policy for medium and small companies. The same happened in the past with SAP, which changed its policy and also made licenses for low.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The technical support is really helpful because we can set up direct calls with them if we want to. We can use Zoom or Google Meet to interact with them directly, and if there is an issue in our system, they will help us by reproducing the issue in their machines and trying to figure out a solution. The support is really smooth, and we like that they're very supportive."

"The most valuable features of the product are the performance parameters it gives us."

"The initial setup of HeadSpin was very easy and user-friendly. It was easy to configure and write a script."

"The most valuable feature of HeadSpin it's the integration with other solutions. It is great. I can search for an element or do a quick debugging on the application right on HeadSpin. It's very useful."

"It has an interesting feature called AV box testing. A lot of companies that are in the OTT segment don't really understand what their streaming is like. They can't test for streaming quality. There are restrictions where you cannot simulate live streaming. For example, on Netflix, you can't simulate how a movie is being streamed on a remote device. That's why HeadSpin has got this AV box testing feature. It is a patented feature. They send an AV box to your location, and you can test live streaming, which is something that no other company does."

"The most valuable feature is that this is the first connected intelligence all-in-one platform."

"Image recognition: It has allowed us to automate a GUI section of our product which involves drawing different topologies."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"This tool is very easy to use and I think that anyone can come in, having no experience with it, and within four to six months be comfortable with it."

"The platform's most valuable feature is model-based testing, which is effective for test case design and optimization."

"Tosca can go through platforms to make end-to-end testing across CRM, billing, provisioning, order management flow, and databases to check for errors."

"It has helped teams within our organization become more aware of the testing requirements in terms of risk and priority."

"Tosca BI is important to make sure that our data integrity is in check and validated; to make sure our data is good. Our data is the number-one important driver for our company, so if that's not good, we have some big problems."

"It's stable and reliable."

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Cons

"They should automate their onboarding. A lot of things are still manual. They can create a video assistant or something like that to completely automate the entire process."

"If you want to do some testing or check the devices manually or check the application in a particular device manually, it is really laggy. That's a disappointment because sometimes we would like to do manual testing when our local devices are not available."

"HeadSpin needs to improve the hardware. With the mobile, the battery life reduces and must be continuously charged."

"Sometimes, devices go offline and some features are not functioning on some devices, specifically on iOS."

"HeadSpin could improve on the user interface because it is very poor. The checks that are done on the iOS devices are very difficult, but for Android, it runs great. For all iOS devices, the user interface and how it interacts with the device are very poor."

"Support and pricing could be improved."

"I would like to see something in terms of AI capabilities."

"Tricentis Tosca's performance could be better. Sometimes when we are remapping or when it is loading it can take a lot of time. There are free solutions that have better performance in this area."

"In terms of areas for improvement, Tricentis has a variety of tools, even its test management tool called qTest. Tricentis Tosca does have integration with different Tricentis tools, but the integration is geared towards a larger organization perspective. For very small organizations that have minimal licenses, the integration needs to be improvised. For example, I belong to a smaller organization that has only one license, so the capability that the tool provides for integration isn't sufficient because my company needs to have separate workspaces. When Tricentis Tosca is going to be running, it is going to use that license, but my company wants another separate workspace to record, relay, and test. This is what my team has been struggling with, and the mechanism is probably there, but that needs more time and investigation, so I can't say that I'm one hundred percent certain that Tricentis Tosca, in terms of integration for a smaller organization is insufficient. Another area for improvement is that Tricentis Tosca is currently just a Windows-based tool which affects the market because nowadays, Windows isn't the only operating system, for example, there's also Apple or IOS that's moving much faster than Windows."

"Primarily I'm dealing with customers looking for a cheap solution, and they are willing to try open-source automation solutions. So from this perspective, the price of Tosca is not as competitive."

"The solution is expensive compared to other tools in the market."

"We faced some hardships in implementing the solution because of integration."

"The solution needs to improve its simulation of mobile environments. Right now, that aspect is really lacking."

"There should be ease of data manipulation within automation test cases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I believe the licensing cost is cheap because it's a total solution, hardware, license and software."

"It has a yearly license. There is no other option. It is expensive. There are a lot of other cheaper players in the market, but it is like a Mercedes. You pay an extra premium for it, but you get the benefits. I would love to see them come up with project-based costing. Companies that are low on funds or new-age can do with pricing that is easily digestible. They can give them a pricing model for three months. They can provide a startup package."

"It's not cheap, but there are a few different packages and different prices for enterprises with different product versions."

"We have a yearly license for 16 devices."

"There are different types of licenses: enterprise or professional. The cost varies."

"Tricentis Tosca may be relatively on the higher side in terms of pricing, but their sales rep can give pretty decent deals when asked."

"The price of Tricentis Tosca is approximately Є10,000 for one license. However, it used to be much cheaper, but they changed their license structure. It used to be a structure where if you bought a license you would receive one year of free support and maintenance. Now they only have a yearly license, and that is expensive."

"A competitor of Tricentis Tosca: Katalon Studio, is very similar and offers lower pricing, though Tricentis Tosca offers more features and benefits."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"It is an expensive tool compared to other test automation tools. It has a lot of advantages over other tools."

"A yearly license costs around 20,000 euros."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. It is on the higher side."

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Computer Software Company

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Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Energy/Utilities Company

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Overview

Headspin is a data science-driven Mobile APM platform that leverages an AI platform to combine global device infrastructure, test automation, machine learning-driven performance, and quality of experience analytics. HeadSpin was founded to answer the demand for a global testing, performance monitoring, and quality of experience (QoE) management platform to assist businesses in ensuring optimal digital experiences across mobile, audio, online, and video delivery channels.

Headspin facilitates seamless collaboration between product managers, SREs, developers, QA/release engineers, and support staff to:

Quicken development times using intelligent automation in test and production.
Optimize digital performance across devices, networks, and apps.
Automate insights discovery with practical, context-aware AI and analytics.

Headspin Features

Headspin has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Global device infrastructure allows end-to-end monitoring and testing with thousands of devices in numerous locations on real carrier and WiFi networks around the world. SDK is not required.
Test automation and APIs integrate into CI/CD workflows to enable functional and performance testing pre and post release. Support for all testing frameworks.
Performance, QoE, and machine learning automatically expose issues and points to underlying root causes across all layers of the stack, from quantifying audio/video quality of experience to code and packet visibility.
Insights-to-actions delivers regression and aggregation insights throughout the digital experience lifecycle. These insights take you from planning and development to troubleticketing and operations. Trending, alerts, and analytics.

More features include:

Hosted Device Cloud
On-prem Device Appliance
Performance & Experience Analytics
Professional Services & Support
Education, Certification & Training

Headspin Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Headspin. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Use data science to identify problems and root cause analysis

Empower QA and DevOps teams with data science insights and test automation

Global teams can work together using remote access

Capture performance and UX issues

Reviews from Real Users

Headspin stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its easy setup, scalability, and robust customer support. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Abhishek M., Associate Vice President at Onnivation, notes, “A lot of companies that are using other solutions do not get access to the kind of metrics that HeadSpin captures…HeadSpin is highly advanced. It has got all the performance structures to provide visibility into how my app is performing in the real world. It also helps to identify the gaps.”

Shiba S., Automation Engineer at GlobalLogic India, writes, “The technical support is really helpful because we can set up direct calls with them if we want to…They support multiple devices. Plus, they support distribution testing.”

HeadSpin

Tricentis Tosca is primarily leveraged for test automation across web, SAP, API, and mainframe applications, offering robust support for both regression and functional testing.

Tricentis Tosca's test automation capabilities extend to front-end and back-end testing, including processes like RPA and UI-based regression tests on Microsoft Windows. It supports Agile environments with multiple applications, enabling Salesforce automation, API endpoints, and end-to-end automation workflows. Tosca caters to diverse testing needs, integrating well with tools like Jenkins and Bamboo, although upgrades and customizations present challenges. Licensing costs and performance issues during loading and scanning are concerns, along with substantial learning curves for new users. Enhanced AI features and better reporting are on users' wishlist.

What are the key features of Tricentis Tosca?

Tosca BI: Ensures data integrity and accuracy in business intelligence testing
Tosca Commander: Centralized control for easy test management and maintenance
Model-Based Test Automation: Facilitates test creation without scripting
Integration Capabilities: Works seamlessly with Jenkins and Bamboo for CI/CD
Diverse Application Support: Compatible with mobile, web, APIs, and SAP
Scriptless Nature: Simplifies usage and reduces maintenance efforts

What benefits should users consider?

Enhanced Automation: Streamlines testing processes, saving time and resources
Scalability: Adapts to growing demands within an organization
Test Management: Centralized control enhances efficiency and oversight
Ease of Use: Scriptless approach lowers the barrier to entry for users

Tricentis Tosca is implemented across various industries, serving sectors like finance, healthcare, and retail with test automation solutions to ensure application quality and reliability. Agile teams in these industries benefit from its multi-application support and ability to manage complex end-to-end testing workflows. The tool's integration capabilities are particularly useful in environments that rely on CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous testing and quick feedback loops.

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Sample Customers

Zynga, Tinder, Pinterest, Akamai, Microsoft, Airbnb, Jam City, TMobile, Mozilla, CNN, Cognizant, Yahoo!, ebay, Quora, Walmart, Kohls, Telstra

HBO, AMEX, BMW Group, ING, Bosch, Austrian Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Henkel, Allianz, Bank of America, UBS, Orange, Siemens, Swiss Re, Vodafone

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