Autify alternative: agents that act as users

Autify spreads across several products (Aximo, Genesis, Mobile, Next and a managed QA service), and only Aximo shows prices on its pricing page. Aximo charges credits per step of a test run, so what a run costs depends on how long it is. People look elsewhere when they want a flat cost per run, when they do not want a library of scenarios to keep, or when they want agents that play different users.

• Autify Aximo: scenarios written in plain English, run by an AI that moves through the app like a user, on web, mobile and desktop.
• Mimiq: no suite to keep. Agents try a task as different users, about 5 to 15 minutes for 5 agents.
• Autify Aximo: public plans, a free trial (2,000 one-time credits), Core $99 and Team $450 a month billed annually, Enterprise on request.
• Mimiq: first test free, then a $9 Starter (120 credits that never expire) or monthly plans from $19.
• Both: an AI works from a plain-English instruction, with no scripts or selectors to write.

Autify lists several products. Autify Aximo uses natural language and visual recognition to generate and run end-to-end tests across web, mobile and desktop apps, covering iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, including OS-level interactions. You write the scenario in plain English, and the page says it does not rely on scripts or selectors: the AI moves through the app like a user and reports whether the scenario behaved as expected. Autify also lists Genesis (test cases from requirements and source code), Autify Mobile (no-code mobile test automation), Next (automation built on Playwright) and AI-Native Managed QA. This page covers Aximo, the product with public pricing.

Its pricing page says Aximo provides your test context through MCP, so a coding agent can generate scripts in Playwright, Selenium or Cypress, and that the code is yours to commit. Script generation is listed for the Team and Enterprise plans. Autify's help center documents CI/CD through a command line tool, with guides for GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Pipelines and AWS CodeBuild, and mentions running against a preview endpoint for each pull request; the guide does not say which Autify product it covers.

Pricing for Aximo is public. The free trial gives 2,000 one-time credits that do not expire. Core is $99 a month billed annually ($120 billed monthly) with 6,000 credits a month, Team is $450 a month billed annually ($550 billed monthly) with 30,000 credits a month, and Enterprise is on request. Credits are used per step of a test run, not per run. Desktop app testing is Enterprise only.

Mimiq sends AI agents to use your web app. You paste a link and give a task in plain words, such as "Sign up and start using it". Each agent opens the app in its own real browser, plays a person with a reason to be there, and works toward the task for up to 40 steps. The report shows what broke (errors on screen, buttons that do nothing, forms that reject good input, dead ends), what the browser caught on the site (JavaScript errors, requests that failed or answered 4xx or 5xx, and requests slower than 3 seconds, ranked by how many agents hit each), and where each agent got stuck or gave up and why, in its own words, with the step and a screenshot. The problems are ranked, with suggested fixes.

You can run it by pasting a link in the app, from a coding agent through the MCP server at mcp.mimiqai.com (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code and Windsurf), or on every preview deploy with the GitHub Action github.com/victorgulchenko/mimiq-preview-check, which works with Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare Pages previews, leaves one pull request comment and can fail the check. Agents get a working inbox for verification codes. With paid credits they can also sign in with a test account and open protected previews, using a Vercel bypass secret or basic auth.

Mimiq does not write or export test scripts, does not test native mobile apps, and does not predict how many real people will finish. Every agent is simulated, agents choose their own paths so two runs can differ, and a run is not exhaustive. Agents cannot pay with real cards, and a CAPTCHA can stop them.

Aximo is the closest of the suite tools to Mimiq: an AI works from a plain-English instruction and moves through the app, with no selectors. The difference is the question the instruction asks. In Aximo it is a scenario to validate, so the answer is whether the flow you described works, and you keep the scenario to run again.

In Mimiq the instruction is a goal given to different people. Mimiq keeps no suite. Each run is a fresh set of agents, each playing a person with a reason to be there, and the report is about their experience: the errors and slow requests the browser caught, where one gave up and why in its own words, and wording that sent a newcomer the wrong way. A saved test checks the outcome it names; it does not tell you that a newcomer would not understand a step.

Neither is exhaustive. Autify's coverage is the scenarios someone has written. Mimiq runs vary, because agents choose their own paths, and Mimiq does not export a script you could rerun.

Choose Autify when you need iOS, Android or desktop app testing, which Mimiq does not do, when you want scenarios you keep and rerun with plan limits on concurrent runs, or when you want a vendor with an on-premises option, which its pricing page lists for Enterprise.

Choose Mimiq when you have a link or a preview and no suite yet, when you want a first read in minutes without a call, when you want public prices, or when you want agents built from your own customers on a staging build.

Mimiq pricing is public: the first test is free with a free account (Google sign-in, no card), and the account includes 50 credits. An agent uses 5 credits, so 5 agents use 25. After that it is a $9 Starter (120 credits that never expire) or monthly plans from $19. Mimiq is not a regression suite. If the same checks must run the same way on every release, Autify or a scripted suite is the right tool.