LEAPWORK vs Sauce Labs comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Sauce Labs and LEAPWORK are key competitors in the test automation space. Sauce Labs has an advantage in versatility and platform support, while LEAPWORK stands out with no-code automation capabilities.

Features: Sauce Labs offers cloud-based testing, extensive cross-browser testing, and multi-device testing capabilities. LEAPWORK provides a no-code automation platform, visual flow-building, and streamlined automation processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sauce Labs provides a cloud-native approach for seamless deployment and has robust customer support. LEAPWORK features a user-friendly interface for quick deployment and strong customer support for non-technical teams.

Pricing and ROI: Sauce Labs has a competitive pricing structure with scalable plans, offering significant ROI by reducing testing time. LEAPWORK has a higher initial setup cost, justified by long-term operational cost reduction through its no-code environment, delivering value with minimal technical skill required.

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Categories and Ranking

LEAPWORK

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

18th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Sauce Labs

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

15th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

113

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Test Automation Tools category, the mindshare of LEAPWORK is 1.5%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sauce Labs is 2.9%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Blaine Anderson

Software Development Team Lead at a engineering company with 51-200 employees

Flow automation software that is user friendly for non technical teams and offers good value for money

If it is a business critical environment that needs to be up 99.999% of the time, LEAPWORK is the solution to go with because the ROI on it is good. We ended up using SmartBear because of how expensive LEAPWORK is. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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Joel Alonzo

Product Manager - Data & APIs at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

Metrics about testing across the company are easily accessible, and it's easy to get teams up and running

Multi-domain SSO is a big concern for us right now, especially as we've been merged into a larger company. I suddenly have teams coming from 20 different domains, and because the main master Sauce Labs account is locked down to one SSO domain, there are teams that can't run a test right now. I've heard they're working on a solution and they've been very communicative with us about it. A solution to that would help us a lot. The other issue is that when you're behind a corporate proxy and inside a corporate network, it's a nightmare in general. And the problem that we've come up against over and over again is that a lot of our network staff don't want to open up giant CIDR blocks to internal traffic. Opening it up to one endpoint which is Sauce Labs, through a little API is perfectly fine. That's one IP address and it's no big deal. But for their virtual machines they have one jump box and that jump box contains an entire CIDR block that changes each time the tunnel starts up. In other words, if every call went into one IP and that got bounced back to a load balancer or net gateway, that would help a lot too. When I go to the network team and say, "Hey, we're using a product, a piece of software, and I need an entire CIDR block opened," the first and almost eternal response to that will be "absolutely not." Getting things set up and running is always going to be a bit of a struggle within any corporate environment. Most of that is not Sauce Labs' fault, but the things I just mentioned are things they could do to help deal with that struggle.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The UI is user-friendly."

"The most valuable of this solution is the no code option. It offers drag and drop when it comes to development and removes the need for a developer."

"It provides automated testing. Instead of us doing manual testing, we can utilize Leapwork, and it tests most of our critical processes. In the next phase, we also plan to do some process work with it, such as using Leapwork to create reports or provide certain extracts of data."

"Sauce Labs' dashboards contain multiple useful metrics in one place. Everything is represented to us visually on the dashboard, which helps us understand where to focus our attention, what the issues are, and what we need to resolve."

"I have found the live test section with Sauce Labs to be extremely valuable. When you can't quite figure out why a test is failing, you can go to the live test results section within their tool and launch your test (specifying a given OS/browser, or device) manually and step through the test to see the issue more clearly, usually opening up the developer's tool console and watching the network calls and console (within Chrome) to usually find the underlying issue."

"The insights section provides a great overall state of the automation suite and can identify trends relatively quickly. If we see a dip in our passing rate over time, we can look at what changed when the test started failing to find the root cause rather than doing a quick fix to find that the test fails a short time later."

"It helped to integrate our performance testing and UAT, which helped to deliver a bug free software for our customers."

"It runs on the cloud, so you don't have physical setups to run all of this."

"The solution they provide is very robust. We can quickly connect to their environment with the hub URL. They have a URL that has the entire grid of desktops, web browsers, and mobile devices. They also provide real devices, so you just provide the URL and test your application."

"Before implementing Sauce Labs, we tested physical devices that team members had to share. It was more feasible when we were all located in one office, but we couldn't leverage our offshore capacity. With this solution, we can do everything remotely, which is essential now that most of us work from home."

"The most valuable feature is cross-browser, cross-OS, cross-mobile device testing."

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Cons

"The initial setup is difficult."

"The only thing that I don't like about the product is the need to deploy agents on the laptops of people doing the testing. So, you have an agent on a server, then you have an agent on the laptop of the person who is doing the testing, and that seems like a lot of stuff and a kind of anti-cloud. Why do I have to deploy agents on people's machines in order to do something in the cloud? I'm sure they're doing that so they can monitor their licensing and all that stuff, but it is not necessarily a friendly process."

"This solution could be improved by offering better reporting related to the integration into Azure DevOps."

"It is a very comprehensive tool, and there is a significant learning curve to being able to adopt the tool. Because it does so much, there is only so much that you can learn. You can, however, do some simpler things right away. They do have a kind of boot camp where some of their experts engage with you, and during that time, you can work on the top initiatives that you want to do, and that's a good process. After you start using the tool, there is a lot more that you would want to do."

"We have found that during automated testing this can be very slow. This causes inconsistencies with the tests. It's very difficult to rely on a service when you can't be sure if a test will pass or fail the next time it runs. This means building in a lot of sync time into the tests which in turn slows them down. If this speed could be improved then the service would be much better."

"With the desktop browser, we can inspect any screen with the web developer option, but they should provide something for mobiles so that we can quickly inspect elements on the device. To write the Selenium scripts, we require web locators. We have to capture them from the local and execute the script on Sauce Labs. If Sauce Labs can provide a solution where we can inspect any of the mobile devices online, it will be very helpful for us."

"It should provide more examples of script code."

"The real concern is the load time of applications or real devices when we start our tests. It takes some time to load the application or web browser. Sometimes, it is frustrating too. Since they are real devices, we understand it takes some time to load. However, if it were to improve, then that would be a great asset to the solution. So, we would like better responsive times when opening applications and running tests."

"I would like to see improved network connectivity and it should allow playback for native apps."

"The ability to install profiles on iOS real mobile devices should be included."

"Start execution time as each time a set of tests start, it will launch a new VM so it takes a bit of time."

"One of the challenging areas for us is the reporting and the matrix. It should be based on roles, but right now it is only available for the admin role. The admin role can really do a lot of stuff, but our infrastructure team, which holds the admin role, is not ready to hand it over to us on the testing team. If Sauce Labs had permissions associated with roles, where this role could do this activity and that role could do that activity, it would be easier for us."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We got a deal on it for the first year. We're paying $8,000."

"The product is not cheap."

"The pricing is reasonable due to the amount of diversity that they provide. However, I feel they might be more flexible to bargain based on their relationship with our organization."

"They could improve on the pricing because it seems pretty expensive. I'm sure it's justified, but it's expensive."

"When you reach the Enterprise licensing tier, base level being with 10 concurrent test sessions, pricing is essentially per-unit-of-concurrency thereafter with a relatively linear increase and not much benefit for "bulk"."

"It could be less like pay-per-use with a lower rate."

"Compared with other services, Sauce Labs is a bit expensive."

"Try the free trial and work with a Sauce Labs representative to see what package works best for your application(s)."

"The number of concurrent VMs that Sauce Labs provides depends on your purchase license level."

"We did initially go with Sauce Labs because of the pricing and integration."

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Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

15%

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Questions from the Community

Do you recommend Leapwork? How is Leapwork pricing?

Do you recommend Leapwork? I absolutely recommend Leapwork. In fact, I consider it to be one of the best test automation tools. I like it because it provides many benefits. Some of the ones I fin...

What do you like most about LEAPWORK?

The UI is user-friendly.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LEAPWORK?

Ten licenses cost around $100,000. The product is not cheap. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.

What do you like most about Sauce Labs?

It has significantly enhanced our testing accuracy by approximately 50%.

What needs improvement with Sauce Labs?

Sauce Labs can include new technologies like generative AI, which can reduce the human effort in writing test cases. For example, in my current project, we reduced the time it took to complete user...

What is your primary use case for Sauce Labs?

I work as an automation engineer using Selenium WebDriver with Java, and API automation using Rest Assured with Java. I have also worked with Docker integration on AWS. Additionally, I have experie...

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Overview

LEAPWORK is a no-code automation platform. This solution’s main purpose is to make it easy for business and IT administrators to automate repetitive processes.

LEAPWORK Features

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

Hyper-visual debugging: LEAPWORK’s hyper-visual debugging leads to faster maintenance. LEAPWORK’s platform provides representation of issues either with a video recording of the run, a debug version of the automation flow that contains data-level insights, or an activity log.

Reusable sub-flows: With LEAPWORK, you can identify process steps that can resurface across different automation cases, which can then be turned into reusable sub-flows. The sub-flows can be used over and over across projects and teams.

Robust execution across multiple machines: LEAPWORK makes it possible for you to run automation in multiple environments at the same time. The solution also makes it easy to handle SSO scenarios and execute remotely.

Efficient scheduling: With LEAPWORK you can schedule automation flows to run during any time of day or night, in parallel, or on local, remote, and virtual machines, in the cloud, or even in closed networks. The scheduling feature can also be programmed to run once or repeatedly according to a recurring schedule.

Calendar assistant: LEAPWORK has an advanced calendar assistant that allows you to see what is running and when, which also helps you plan more strategically. In addition, the calendar assistant provides you with an overview of agent resource usage.

Workflow and assignee management: LEAPWORK enables you to segregate duties and to track contributors as needed, providing complete transparency so that managing hundreds of automation flows is more efficient.

Governance and compliance: LEAPWORK offers audit logs, video-based reporting, and dashboards, which helps you manage governance issues. LEAPWORK also provides compliance features to help your organization.

LEAPWORK Benefits

Some of the benefits of using LEAPWORK include:

Easy to learn: Since using LEAPWORK automates tests in minutes or hours rather than days, the platform is intuitive, simple, and easy to learn.

Low maintenance: LEAPWORK is designed with reusability built in, which helps decrease the maintenance burden on your QA and development teams and also results in fewer automation bottlenecks.

Reliable and secure: LEAPWORK is an enterprise-grade test automation solution that can be relied on as a secure product. It is also reliable since it works across all technologies.

Large data management: Large volumes of data can be managed easily. Data sources and dynamic values can be entered with visual connectors easily.

Good support and service: LEAPWORK has a team of specialists who are dedicated to supporting you with all your automation needs.

Built for DevOps: LEAPWORK is designed to Integrate seamlessly into your existing infrastructure and break down traditional communication barriers between business teams and IT departments.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot user Timothy C., Founder and Chief Technologist at Spider Technologies, says, “It provides automated testing. Instead of us doing manual testing, we can utilize LEAPWORK, and it tests most of our critical processes. In the next phase, we also plan to do some process work with it, such as using Leapwork to create reports or provide certain extracts of data.”

LEAPWORK

Sauce Labs is a functional testing tool that ensures your apps and websites work flawlessly on every browser, OS, and device. The solution allows you to automate functional testing on multiple operating systems and browsers, emulating the way that a user would use the website. With Sauce Labs, you can also run tests on various operating system and browser combinations in parallel, reducing the amount of time to get results. The Sauce Labs solution provides enterprise-grade security, scalability, and reliability.

Sauce Labs Features

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

Automated cross-browser testing
Mobile testing
Secure tunneling protocol
Usage reporting
Enterprise security
Provisioning
Centralized user account management
Access controls
Support for Selenium, Appium, and JUnit Testing

Sauce Labs Benefits

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

Speed up development time: The solution makes it possible for you to test web and mobile apps in parallel and accelerate your testing time by up to 10x or more. Using Sauce Labs, you can increase developer productivity because your teams will be able to spend less time with test maintenance and debug faster.

No worrying about infrastructure: With Sauce Labs, you don’t have to buy or maintain more servers or mobile devices. You also don’t need to worry about updating browsers or VM licenses. Sauce Labs allows you to easily scale your tests with parallelization to speed up test cycles and boost capacity on their reliable cloud.

Run tests securely: The solution enables you to securely run your scripts and access your data and files from behind your firewall. Sauce Labs generates single-use VMs for every test and destroys them immediately afterwards so your data always remains secure.

Easy integration for your CI systems: Sauce Labs automated testing platform integrates with Jenkins, Bamboo, Microsoft VSTS, and others so you can test as fast as you develop. In addition, you can share results instantly by using the solution’s simple plugins.

Reviews from Real Users

Sauce Labs is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. It has valuable features that include error logging, helpful dashboards, and its browser.

Joel A., Product Manager - Data & APIs at a marketing services firm, says, "The error logging is very robust. If we run a test through Sauce Labs and there's some sort of issue, a log will appear on the screen. Log messages are usually heinous and horrible... Sauce Labs is incredibly good at saying things like, 'Hey, here is the exact issue. Fix this and you can run the test.' That helps in getting things up and running and executing the way they should."

Savio D., Sr. IT Architect at a healthcare company, mentions, "Sauce Labs' dashboards contain multiple useful metrics in one place. Everything is represented to us visually on the dashboard, which helps us understand where to focus our attention, what the issues are, and what we need to resolve."

PeerSpot reviewer, Rob L., Director of Quality Assurance - Shared Service at a financial services firm, writes, “The most valuable feature for us is the browser. The most critical thing is that this software aligns with our Agile and DevOps way of doing things. It integrates with kickoff scripts through DevOps.”

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Salesforce.com, Mozilla, Zendesk, Puppet Labs, Twitter, Bank of America, Eventbrite, Bleacher Report, Okta, Intuit, Travelocity, Sharecare, CapitalOne.

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