SmartBear TestComplete vs UiPath Test Cloud comparison

SmartBear and UiPath are both solutions in the Test Automation Tools category. SmartBear is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8, while UiPath is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0. SmartBear holds a 5.9% mindshare in TAt, compared to UiPath’s 5.0% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of SmartBear users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of UiPath users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 19, 2025

SmartBear TestComplete and UiPath Test Cloud compete in the advanced testing functionalities category. TestComplete seems to have the upper hand with its comprehensive toolset including flexible scripting and cross-platform automation, while UiPath Test Cloud excels in business process integrations and low-code automation.

Features: SmartBear TestComplete is noted for its comprehensive toolset with cross-platform automation capabilities. It includes an Object Browser for object identification and supports flexible scripting in various languages. Additionally, TestComplete enables modularized and data-driven testing. UiPath Test Cloud offers broad integrations across business processes and strong reusability. It provides a low-code automation framework, appealing to a wider range of users.

Room for Improvement: TestComplete needs improvement in its web and mobile testing frameworks, tackling dynamic objects, and refining Intellisense and object mapping. Licensing and integrations with virtual environments also require attention. UiPath Test Cloud could enhance file and variable management and manual testing functionality. Improved integration with external tools and a more flexible licensing model are necessary.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SmartBear TestComplete primarily supports on-premises deployment with some cloud options, while UiPath Test Cloud offers flexible deployment options, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid. TestComplete’s customer service is praised for responsiveness, although technical support may be inconsistent. UiPath’s service is satisfactory but limited in technical solutions.

Pricing and ROI: SmartBear TestComplete is considered expensive with complex licensing, such as floating and node-locked licenses. Despite this, it offers a strong ROI by reducing testing times and improving bug detection. UiPath Test Suite has higher upfront costs but provides a strong value proposition with extensive features supporting complex automation tasks. TestComplete is costly for smaller companies, whereas UiPath, despite a higher price point, offers better value with its feature-rich capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

SmartBear TestComplete

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

9th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Regression Testing Tools (5th)

UiPath Test Cloud

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

3rd

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (7th), Mobile App Testing Tools (3rd), API Testing Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Test Automation Tools category, the mindshare of SmartBear TestComplete is 5.9%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Test Cloud is 5.0%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Prakhar Goel

Sr Test Lead at Emerson

Used for integration automation, user-based automation, and web automation

The solution's most valuable features are the drag-and-drop feature, keyword-driven approach, and reusability of the scripts. The solution has introduced a new feature that helps us identify objects we cannot normally identify. It gives you a fair idea of objects, resolving the object recognition issue. The solution can be used to perform different tests on different machines.

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Deborah Yarosh

VP Technology Automation at Finance Of America Mortgage LLC

Can be used by non-developers, and saves us time, but the manual testing needs improvement

UiPath’s Test Suite manual testing doesn’t work for our organization based on how the QA Analysts do their manual testing and the artifacts that are needed for deployment. The QA Manager needs to track which tests have been completed, the success rate, and other relevant information. The ability to have manual tests show up in multiple projects is a requirement that is not easily done in Test Suite. We have submitted the following enhancements request to UiPath and are waiting for them to address these issues before migrating our manual testing to the UiPath Test Suite platform. * Ability to import manual test cases from an Excel Spreadsheet. * Ability to create release folders and have manual tests under the folders (sub-folders are also needed). * Ability to copy tests between projects (manual and automated). * Ability to execute manual test cases in any order and skip tests if needed. * Ability to assign and see who has been assigned to test cases – need to know who created the test case and who executed the test case as they could be different people. * Ability for the QA manager to see which test cases have been run and which haven’t as well as which ones were successful, and which weren’t. * Ability for the QA manager to track defect cycles for a particular release. * Improving Search functionality – must enter the exact test case name in current search functionality. * Ability to extract key data for artifacts for Release Management or Audit* Test Set or Individual Cases, * Include Test Results (passed / failed), * Include how many iterations a test case went through until it passed.

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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 most valuable feature is the integration with Azure DevOps."

"TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications."

"It is a strong automation tool for desktop, browser, and API testing."

"It works very fine. It is fast on almost any machine, and it is also very well organized. I like its object mapping and its capability to find and interact with almost everything that exists on Windows."

"The solution has a very nice interface."

"The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them. The are other features that SmartBear TestComplete has but the competition widely has them as well."

"It is very easy to maintain tests with this tool. It covers all necessary items in the test plan. The most painful item in testing is maintenance. When changes occur, the tests should be maintained."

"This company offers end-to-end capabilities for test suite creation and execution. One feature that I particularly appreciate is the tagging system. Tags are highly valuable, as they allow you to assign tags to your test cases. When there's an impact in a specific area, you can search for and run all test cases associated with that tag. I find this functionality very useful."

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"It has reduced all the deployment cycles of the automation solutions by forty percent."

"Our team used to require five to six days to complete the entire release or execution cycle. Now, we're able to complete it within just one or one and a half days."

"Being able to use regular expressions, activities, and attributes is valuable."

"The Test Manager, the final stage of the UiPath Test Suite, is its most valuable feature."

"Test Manager is helpful for tracking process steps. We can see which step is failing."

"What I really like about UiPath Test Suite is its ability to ensure that any changes made do not affect other functionalities."

"We can generate our own workflow. In our case, it is a report on the PDF file. In the reporting category, we generally verify a couple of things and generate a lot of reports at the end of the day. It provides some useful details about the data captured from the PDF that we can put into an Excel file."

"The document understanding is good."

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Cons

"To bring it up to a 10, I would be looking for the addition of some key functional API testing."

"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."

"Right now, when you buy the solution, you need to pay for one solution. You receive one set up and you install it and it's just in that one machine. It would be ideal if they could offer one subscription where you can connect to different machines with a group subscription."

"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."

"The artificial intelligence needs to be improved."

"The solution’s customer support should be improved."

"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."

"The solution needs Mac OS support. Right now, the solution has only been developed to accommodate Windows OS."

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"The reporting could be improved. Often, we need to email a report to higher management, we can directly get the report from there. Also, the error reporting could be better."

"We are able to automate most tasks by using UiPath. Its interface is fine. However, its price is a bit high."

"I'd like the solution to be even more automated."

"We are facing problems specifically with Desk Manager."

"If I publish a test case in Test Manager as well as in Orchestrator, the existing test case does not get replaced. It is appending the test case but not replacing it."

"More precise logging would be appreciated."

"Accessing the full functionality of the Test Suite manager, including the dashboard, requires a tenant license."

"UiPath’s Test Suite manual testing doesn’t work for our organization based on how the QA Analysts do their manual testing and the artifacts that are needed for deployment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is pretty reasonable."

"The solution is around $1500. Some are perpetual licenses, and some get a yearly report card."

"This is a pay-per-use service that is not expensive, and cost-efficient if you have a small team."

"The price of SmartBear TestComplete could be less. The main challenge is when it comes to node-locked. They should use a subscription model, such as a monthly-based subscription or, a quarterly-based subscription. Their floating license is very expensive, and this high price should be reduced or provide, at a minimum, a subscription model."

"The product is becoming more and more expensive."

"Our ROI is about $10,000 a year."

"It comes with a high cost."

"TestComplete now have come up with three modules (Web, Desktop & Mobile), so based on the type of product for automation, it is adequate to purchase the required module."

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"It represents good value for the investment."

"Its price is a bit high."

"I don't necessarily have a problem with the pricing of the UiPath Test Suite, especially because we're using the testing bot licenses as opposed to the unattended licensing."

"When we decided to buy the solution three and a half years ago, it was fairly priced."

"One robot license costs 1,500 euros."

"Regarding the pricing model, I believe it would be beneficial to combine it with some of the other platform aspects."

"It is a little bit more expensive than Selenium, but it provides value for money. There are multiple types of licenses such as the Test Suite license, Studio Pro license, Test Manager license, and Test Robot license. The overall cost estimation is 13,800 dollars."

"UiPath Test Suite is a cost-effective solution. Orchestrator is the most expensive UiPath module, costing around $20,000, but you don't need to purchase Orchestrator to use Test Suite. You can buy a nonproductive version that costs about $2,400. It's a better value than other products I've seen."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SmartBear TestComplete?

I don't know much about the pricing, however, I think it's cheaper.

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What needs improvement with SmartBear TestComplete?

The recording function, when using Python, could be improved, as it does not work well in recording testing.

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What do you like most about UiPath Test Suite?

Being able to use regular expressions, activities, and attributes is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for UiPath Test Suite?

The pricing of UiPath tends to be on the higher side, which can restrict smaller companies from adopting it. Although justified by the solution's capability, excessive costs should not be necessary...

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What needs improvement with UiPath Test Suite?

There is room for improvement in terms of introducing framework compatibility. Many companies use test automation as an alternative to Selenium but need to develop a fully functional bot in UiPath ...

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Overview

What is SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete is a reliable, sturdy automated testing platform created by SmartBear Software. SmartBear Software is a worldwide technological leader known for developing quality enterprise-class development and testing solutions.

TestComplete simplifies the process of creating tests for numerous applications, including, but not limited to; Desktop, Android, IOS, Web browsers, and Windows. Application tests can be manual, scripted, and even recorded by using keyword-driven or data-driven functionality. There are even additional options for error reporting and automated playback. The object repository is extremely accurate and is fully customizable. TestComplete can easily be used by experienced developers and even by manual novice testers to develop quality automated UI tests quickly.

TestComplete offers three different testing scenarios:

Desktop: Users can easily and quickly automate UI tests using today’s most popular desktop applications, such as; Windows, Java, Python,.Net, VBScript, and more.
Web: Users can effortlessly create renewable tests for all of today’s popular web applications, including JavaScript frameworks on 2000+ trusted browser and platform integrations.
Mobile: Users can safely build and automate serviceable UI tests on actual or virtual android or IOS devices, locally or in the cloud. Users can create code or codeless tests. TestComplete seamlessly integrates with many of today’s popular frameworks.

Key Features

Easily create automated UI tests: TestComplete offers scriptless Record and Replay or simple keyword-driven tests to quickly develop any type of UI test users may require. Tests can be recorded once, then replayed when needed across various applications on mobile, web, or desktop environments. TestComplete integrates with many different languages, such as Java, Python, C+, and more.
Keyword driven tests: Users can easily divide testing steps, actions, objects, and data with an integrated keyword-driven test structure. This makes it easy for every user to participate in the test automation process; there is no programming experience needed. Everything is made simple with easy-to-use point-and-click options.
Data driven tests: Easily distinguish data from test commands to keep administrative efforts simple. Users can improve overall coverage by running various automated mobile, desktop, or web UI tests.
Record and Replay: Users can reuse created automated tests across every environment as often as desired. This helps to expand overall test coverage and represents a huge cost and time savings.

Reviews from Real Users

Sandhiya T S., Sr Solutions Engineer at Lexington Soft, relates, “The record and replay aspects of the solution are quite useful for people. With them, you don't have to write any scripts. Basically, you can record your actions and play them back later. The initial setup is also very easy.”

Sai S R., Staff Test Architect at a tech services company, says, "The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them."

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UiPath Test Cloud revolutionizes testing through advanced AI agents, enhancing productivity in software assessment.

UiPath Test Cloud, with its AI-augmented automation, offers testers enterprise-grade capabilities for over 190 technologies. Featuring seamless integration with tools like Orchestrator and CI/CD pipelines, it streamlines testing processes and cuts maintenance costs. While users value its functionalities, the need for enhancements in mobile automation and third-party integration, particularly with Jira, is recognized. Efficient test organization through Test Manager and simplified process management via the cloud are noteworthy. Enhancements in reporting and file management are sought, highlighting areas for development.

What are the key features of UiPath Test Cloud?

Drag-and-Drop Programming: Enables easy test creation with minimal technical knowledge.
Robust Robotic Functionality: Offers reliable automation across a wide array of technologies.
API Integration: Ensures seamless connectivity with existing systems.
Detailed Logging: Provides comprehensive logs for better analysis and debugging.
Test Manager: Organizes tests efficiently and simplifies management.

What benefits should users evaluate in UiPath Test Cloud?

Enhanced Productivity: Accelerates test creation and execution.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces manual effort and maintenance expenses.
Cross-Platform Support: Offers flexibility in testing across different environments.
Improved Quality: Delivers high-quality software with speed and efficiency.

Organizations across industries utilize UiPath Test Cloud for testing types such as origination, smoke, and web application testing. Common implementations include testing in supply chain management, regression testing, and integrating workflows. Teams find it beneficial for ensuring functionality and efficiency in mobile app testing, enabling cross-platform support for RPA and applications like Oracle and SAP.

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Sample Customers

Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters.

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