EarlyAI vs QA.tech
EarlyAI is a unit-test engineer inside the IDE: VS Code/Cursor plugin that auto-generates unit tests (TypeScript/JavaScript/Python) for Jest, Mocha, Vitest and Pytest. Per the current record, Developer Starter is free with limited capacity, Pro is $19 per month (200 methods/functions per month), Team/Business is $39 per month per user; these figures come from third-party listings checked October 2026, so confirm on the official site. QA.tech is a fully autonomous end-to-end testing agent: it maps the app, analyzes the blast radius of changes and verifies affected user journeys. Per the official pricing page reviewed on 2026-11-01, the Starter plan costs $89 per month with 50 credits included per month; higher tiers beyond Starter were not adopted. The old draft's pay-as-you-go from about $499 (1,000 executions per month) conflicts with the current Starter fact and is dropped. They operate at different layers: one does unit tests, one does end-to-end. We ran no hands-on test and do not judge generation quality. Individual developers wanting to fill unit-test coverage look at EarlyAI; QA teams wanting to hand regression testing to the pipeline look at QA.tech, budgeting from the verified Starter figure upward.
| Decision point | EarlyAI | QA.tech |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Individual developers and small teams drowning in untested code | Engineering teams shipping fast who need journey verification |
| Plans and cost | Developer Starter: free with limited capacity. Pro: $19/month (200 methods/functions per month). Team/Business: $39/month per user. Pricing from third-party listings checked October 2026; confirm on the official site. | Verified on the official pricing page reviewed on 2026-11-01: the Starter plan costs $89 per month with 50 credits included per month. Recheck official pricing before purchase. |
| Limitations | Generated tests still need human review - blindly trusting AI-written assertions can bake wrong assumptions into your suite. Capacity is metered by tested methods/functions, so large legacy codebases | The reviewed pricing page lists higher tiers beyond Starter; only the Starter price was adopted. |
Use the same input
A SaaS team wants both better code coverage and automated regression testing, and needs to separate the two budgets.
What a successful result must preserve
Test level (unit vs end-to-end), integration point (IDE vs CI/CD), and price magnitude from currently verified figures, not superseded pay-as-you-go quotes.
Evidence and test status
Comparison of the vendors' published positioning and the current tool records reviewed 2026-11-01/02. No hands-on test was run; no quality winner is declared.
- EarlyAI — Regression Guard for Software Releases | Early ↗, Early Access and Team Plans | Early ↗, Software Release Risk Use Cases | Early ↗
- QA.tech — Official pricing page ↗ (reviewed 2026-11-01)