What QA Wolf actually charges, sourced.
QA Wolf publishes part of its pricing and keeps its main product's price private. Here's what's public, sourced, next to what it costs to run QA Reef on your own hardware.
Researched 2026-08-28. QA Wolf's pricing can change — verify current numbers at qawolf.com/pricing before relying on this page.
QA Wolf's published self-serve rate card
QA Wolf's self-serve tier: 1¢ per "AI credit" (Mapping/Automation AI work) plus 15¢ per runner-minute, no per-seat fee, unlimited parallel runs. Source: qawolf.com/pricing, accessed 2026-08-28.
Coverage as a Service — not publicly priced
QA Wolf's flagship product pairs the platform with dedicated human QA engineers who reproduce and maintain tests — a human-verified "zero flakes" guarantee, not an automated one. Billed by tests under management; price not published. Source: qawolf.com/service, accessed 2026-08-28.
Third-party contract estimates (not QA Wolf's own numbers)
Analyst firm Sacra (not QA Wolf's own figures) estimates contracts $40–$70/test/month, a median annual contract near $90,000, ~$8,000/month starting price for 200 tests, ~$15–20M ARR, ~130 customers — unverified, directional only. Source: sacra.com/c/qa-wolf, accessed 2026-08-28.
What running QA Reef yourself costs
QA Reef has no published hosted price yet — see the pricing page for why. What we can say about the self-hosted core:
| Cost | What it is |
|---|---|
| Hardware | A Mac for free on-device Apple Vision OCR, or any machine plus a self-hosted vision model (we run one via Ollama). You supply the compute, no hosted-runner fee. |
| Model calls (optional, usage-based) | The click-deciding text model and the assertion-writing model go through an OpenRouter (or local Ollama) key. Every call is cost-logged to artifacts/llm-calls.jsonl — live spend, not an opaque credit balance. |
| Seats | No per-seat fee for the self-hosted core — it's your infrastructure. |
| QA Reef itself, hosted | Early access, no published price yet. |
Pricing questions
How much does QA Wolf cost?
1¢/AI credit + 15¢/runner-minute, no seat fee (self-serve). Coverage as a Service is unpriced, billed by tests under management. Source: qawolf.com/pricing, accessed 2026-08-28.
Are there real-world QA Wolf contract prices?
Not published by QA Wolf. Third-party (Sacra) estimates: $40–$70/test/month, ~$90k median annual contract, ~$8k/month for 200 tests — unverified, directional. Source: sacra.com/c/qa-wolf.
What does it cost to self-host QA Reef instead?
Your own hardware (a Mac for free on-device OCR, or a self-hosted vision model) plus optional per-call model costs — every call is cost-logged.
Does QA Reef charge per seat or per AI credit?
No — the self-hosted core has no seat fee or credit system, only logged per-call model cost.
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