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FlowQA vs mabl: enterprise low-code testing against a tool for small teams

2026-10-08 · mabl is a mature low-code platform sold to mid-market and enterprise QA, with prices behind sales. FlowQA publishes its prices and is built for teams with no QA function. Here is how they differ and who each is for.

mabl is the better choice for a QA organisation that wants a low-code trainer, auto-healing, visual and accessibility checks, and a vendor relationship with a sales team behind it. FlowQA is the better choice for a product team with no QA engineer, a budget measured in hundreds a month, and coding agents writing much of the code. They solve the same problem for different buyers.

What mabl does well

mabl has been in production QA teams for years. Its trainer records tests with a low-code editor, auto-heals element changes, and runs visual and accessibility checks alongside functional ones. Local and CI runs are free; cloud runs consume credits. It integrates with the enterprise toolchain and comes with the support an enterprise expects.

Its prices are not public. Third-party reports put entry around $499 a month for 500 cloud-run credits, growth tiers between $1,200 and $3,000 a month, and enterprise contracts at $40,000 a year and up; treat those as estimates. Reviewers mention cost scaling quickly, slow cloud runs, and less flexibility for custom flows.

What FlowQA does differently

Published prices, sized for small teams. A free plan with 100 tests and 1,000 cloud runs a month; Starter at $49 and Team at $149 a month; a 14-day trial of Team with no card. Local runs are unlimited and free, as with mabl.

An agent that explores. FlowQA maps the site, proposes journeys, generates tests and proves them by breaking the page. mabl's trainer needs a person to walk each flow.

Healing with a human in the loop. mabl auto-heals. FlowQA proposes one small repair, proves it twice, and waits for approval, so a renamed button and a real regression never look the same.

One workspace with a bug tracker and an MCP. Snag captures bugs with the screenshot, steps, console and network; a snag becomes a test; a failing test files a snag; a coding agent works both.

What FlowQA does not have: mabl's breadth of enterprise integrations, its accessibility checks as a first-class report, its sales and support organisation, and anything beyond Chromium on the web.

Prices, side by side

Prices as published on mabl's pricing page or reported by customers, on 2026-10-07.

Pick mabl if

You have a QA team, enterprise procurement, and a need for accessibility and visual checks across many applications with vendor support behind them.

Pick FlowQA if

You have no QA team, you want to see the price before you talk to anyone, and the loop you want is bug to test to fix to proof, with your coding agent doing the middle.