Zerocheck vs building your own

Playwright is free. The runner, the CI wiring, the reporting, and the maintenance are not. Compare what an in-house suite costs to keep alive.

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What In-house does well

  • •Full control over the framework, the browsers, and the infrastructure
  • •No vendor: the suite is yours, in your language, on your runners
  • •Fits teams with dedicated test engineers and months to invest

Where In-house falls short

  • —Coverage takes 2–6 months of infrastructure work before the first useful PR check
  • —Selectors break on the first refactor, and 60–70% of automation budgets go to maintenance
  • —Flaky failures get re-run and ignored; the suite loses trust and gets commented out
  • —Every result needs its own reporting: screenshots, recordings, and PR comments are extra work

How Zerocheck differs

  • Starts from your release checklist, not a blank framework
  • Plain-English YAML in your repo, so the suite is still yours and still readable
  • Runs in a hosted browser with nothing to install, on your laptop, or in GitHub Actions
  • Recording, screenshots, and one PR comment on every run, without building a reporter
  • Retries are visible as flaky and heals are recorded with the old and new target

Side-by-side

Feature
In-house
Zerocheck
Time to first PR check
Weeks to months
Under 30 minutes from a checklist
Authoring
Code and selectors
Drafted from your checklist
When the UI changes
Selectors break, someone fixes them
Target re-resolved and the heal recorded
Reporting
Build it yourself
Recording, screenshots, PR comment
Who maintains it
Your engineers
Zerocheck re-resolves targets; you review each heal
Price
Free framework plus engineering time
Pilot plan, no per-seat charges

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FAQ

We already have a Playwright suite. Do we throw it away?

No. Keep what passes. Teams usually point Zerocheck at the flows whose Playwright specs are flaky or commented out, run both in parallel, and retire the old specs as trust builds.

Is Zerocheck just Playwright underneath?

Zerocheck drives Chromium with Playwright. What you write is a plain-English YAML check, and what you get back is a recording, screenshots, and a PR comment without building any of that yourself.

What if we leave?

The checks are YAML files in your repo. The steps are readable enough to rewrite in any framework, or to hand back to a person.

Zerocheck vs building your own

Playwright is free. The runner, the CI wiring, the reporting, and the maintenance are not. Compare what an in-house suite costs to keep alive.

Get a demo