> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # testRigor Review Australia 2026: Plain-English Test Automation, Tested - URL: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-testrigor-australia-2026/ - Published: 2026-06-27T23:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-09T06:36:50.000Z - Description: An AI test-automation tool that lets non-coders write tests in plain English — strong on depth, weak on Australian pricing and data residency. - Author: Adam - Tags: Coding & Development, Testing & QA Automation, #review **16**/25 ★★★★☆ Very Good testRigor Verified 29 Sep 2026 Reviewed 28 Jun 2026 Value for Money**3**/5 Ease of Use**4**/5 Feature Depth**4**/5 Australian Fit**2**/5 Reliability & Support**3**/5 From **Quote** only · the free plan makes every test public; private plans are trial-then-quote, and the US$300/mo Private Linux Chrome tier was withdrawn by Sep 2026 **The gate:** Five stars need 21+ and Australian Fit of at least 4/5. [Skip to the verdict ](#verdict) > **Verdict (TL;DR):** testRigor lets a non-coder write automated tests in plain English. You type "log in and buy a Kindle," and it runs. It tests web, mobile, desktop and API from one place. The plain-English approach genuinely cuts the test maintenance that sinks Selenium projects. But the catch list is long for an Australian buyer. Billing is US dollars only. No private plan has a published price: you trial it, then get a quote. There is no stated Australian data region. And the free tier makes every test public, which rules it out for real business data. Strong tool, awkward local fit. > > **Score: 16/25 — ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good** > > *Last reviewed: 28 June 2026 by Adam.* ## What testRigor is testRigor is an AI-powered test automation platform. Instead of writing code, you write test steps in plain English. A step reads like an instruction you'd give a junior tester: "click on cart," "check that the page contains 'Order confirmed'." The platform's generative AI translates that into the underlying actions and locates elements on the screen for you. That last part is the point. Traditional test tools like Selenium break the moment a developer renames a button or shifts the layout. testRigor leans on the visible text and the AI's reading of the page rather than brittle code-level selectors, so tests survive UI changes that would snap a Selenium script. The vendor's pitch is dramatically less maintenance. It is not just a web tool. testRigor states it covers web, native and hybrid mobile (iOS and Android), native Windows desktop, API testing, and harder cases like email, SMS, phone-call and two-factor-authentication flows. That breadth from a single plain-English syntax is its real differentiator. The company is US-based. On its own site it cites Gartner Cool Vendor recognition (2023) and an Inc. 5000 ranking (2025); treat those as the vendor's own claims rather than our verification. ## What it costs in Australia There is **no AUD billing**. testRigor prices in US dollars. The AUD figures below are our own conversions at US$1 ≈ A$1.40, shown ex-GST. testRigor does not confirm GST handling, so treat the AUD column as indicative, not a billed figure. One important caveat on sourcing. The URL testRigor historically used for pricing — `testrigor.com/pricing/` — now returns a 404 error. The plan tiers and the headline price below are taken from testRigor's live sign-up page, which is the current primary source. As of 29 September 2026 no tier carries a published price at all: the paid plans are trial-then-quote. | Plan | Price (USD) | Approx AUD (ex-GST) | What you get | | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Public — Open Source | Free forever | Free | Full test building, but **all tests and results are public open source** — anyone can view them | | Private Complete (most popular) | Trial only — no public price | Not published | Adds Ubuntu, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS and Windows Native; 14-day trial; price quoted on sign-up | | Enterprise | Custom — contact sales | Not published | Personalised enterprise terms | Source: testRigor sign-up page, checked 28 June 2026 and again 29 September 2026 (see Sources). The June page also listed a Private Linux Chrome plan from US$300 a month; it was gone by September. Read that top row carefully. The free plan is not a private free tier — it makes **every test and every result public open source**. For a business testing a real login flow, a checkout, or anything touching customer data, that is not a free plan you can use. It is a community showcase. The first usable private tier has no public price. In June the cheapest private plan was US$300 a month; that plan is gone, so expect a sales conversation before you can keep your tests private. GST: as an overseas digital supplier billing in USD, testRigor should charge 10% GST to Australian consumers under the ATO's imported-services rules. The sign-up page does not confirm AU GST handling, so check the tax line on your first invoice. ## How it works in practice You build a test case as a list of plain-English commands. There is no need to inspect the page's HTML or hunt for an element ID. You refer to things the way a person would: "click 'Add to cart'," "enter '\[email protected\]' into 'Email'." testRigor resolves those references at run time using the on-screen text and its AI model. The payoff is maintenance. The vendor claims "99.5% less test maintenance" versus Selenium and "100X faster" test building; those are testRigor's own marketing figures, not numbers we have independently measured, so weigh them accordingly. The underlying mechanism is real, though — text-based, AI-resolved steps genuinely do survive cosmetic UI changes better than code-level selectors. That is the strongest practical reason to look at this tool. The cross-platform reach is the other genuine win. One plain-English test can, in principle, run against a website and a mobile app without you learning a separate framework for each. testRigor also handles flows most tools dodge: reading a one-time code from an email or SMS to clear two-factor authentication, for instance. That is fiddly to script elsewhere. The trade-off is control and speed. Tests that run through an AED-style AI layer can be slower per step than hard-coded scripts, and when the AI mis-reads an ambiguous page you debug in English rather than in code — easier for non-developers, occasionally vaguer for engineers who want certainty. ## What it does well - **Plain-English tests open QA to non-coders.** A product manager or manual tester can write and maintain automated tests without learning Selenium, Cypress or a programming language. - **Genuinely low maintenance.** Text-based, AI-resolved steps survive UI changes that break selector-based scripts. This is the core value, and it is real. - **Broad platform coverage from one syntax.** Web, mobile, desktop, API, plus email/SMS/2FA flows — without juggling a separate framework per surface. - **Strong stated compliance posture.** testRigor states it holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, HIPAA and GDPR coverage — a credible enterprise security story, if you can verify it against your own requirements. ## What it doesn't do well - **The free tier is public by default.** Every test and result on the free plan is open source and visible to anyone. For real Australian business data, that is unusable, and no private tier has a published price. - **No AUD billing and no published private price.** The US$300/month entry plan of June has been withdrawn; private use now means a trial, then a quote, billed in US dollars with no GST confirmation. That is a big ask for a small team. - **No stated Australian data residency.** testRigor lists Microsoft Azure as a subprocessor but does not state an Australian data region or residency option anywhere we could find. For regulated AU data, that is an open question you must raise with sales. - **Opaque mid-tier pricing.** The "most popular" Private Complete plan shows no public price — only a trial. You cannot budget without contacting them. - **AI step resolution trades certainty for accessibility.** Easier for non-coders, but engineers who want deterministic, fast, code-level control may find it less predictable. ## Australian fit This is where testRigor lands below the line. It is a capable global product with no specific accommodation for Australian buyers. Billing is USD only. Private plans are quote-only, with no AUD option and no confirmed GST treatment. There is no published Australian data region — Azure is named as a subprocessor, but residency is not stated, which matters for any team handling regulated data under the Privacy Act. There is no local support presence and no AU-specific documentation. The compliance certifications testRigor states — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR — are global frameworks, useful but not a substitute for an Australian data-residency commitment. For a Sydney or Melbourne business that needs its test data to stay onshore, the honest answer today is that testRigor cannot confirm it will. None of this makes testRigor a bad tool. It makes it a global tool a local buyer must vet carefully. **Australian Fit scores 2/5, so under our** [**methodology**](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/methodology/) **this review cannot carry five stars or be named a category Top Pick, regardless of its raw total.** ## Alternatives - **Selenium** — the open-source incumbent. Free and infinitely flexible, but code-heavy and maintenance-hungry — the exact pain testRigor targets. Pick it if you have engineers and want zero licence cost. - **Katalon** — a lower-code commercial QA platform with a free tier that stays private. Less AI-native than testRigor, but friendlier on price and privacy for a small AU team. - **Playwright** — Microsoft's modern open-source framework. Fast and reliable, but it is a developer tool — you write code. The right pick if your testers can program. ## Bottom line testRigor is a strong pick for a specific buyer: a team with real budget that wants non-coders writing low-maintenance, cross-platform automated tests, and that can clear the data-residency question with testRigor's sales team directly. The plain-English approach is not a gimmick — it genuinely cuts the maintenance that kills test suites, and the platform breadth is rare. It is the wrong pick for a small, cost-sensitive Australian business that needs AUD billing, a private free tier, and a stated onshore data region. The quote-only private plans, the public-by-default free plan, and the absent Australian residency story all count against it locally. Four stars: a very good tool whose Australian fit is held back by USD-only pricing and no published local hosting. ## Score | Criterion | Score | Note | | --------------------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Value for Money | 3/5 | Real maintenance savings, but quote-only private plans (US$300/mo entry in June, now withdrawn) and an unusable public free tier blunt the value for small teams | | Ease of Use | 4/5 | Plain-English tests are genuinely accessible to non-coders; AI resolution is occasionally vaguer than code | | Feature Depth | 4/5 | Web, mobile, desktop, API, plus email/SMS/2FA from one syntax — serious breadth | | Australian Fit | 2/5 | USD-only, quote-only private plans, no AUD or GST confirmation, no stated AU data residency, no local support | | Reliability & Support | 3/5 | Strong stated compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR); maturity is solid but support tiers are sales-gated | | **Total** | **16/25** | **⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good** | Update history - **29 Sep 2026 — verified by browser: the only published price is gone.** `testrigor.com/pricing/` still returns 404 and the site's own Pricing link now points at `testrigor.com/sign-up/`. Read there on an Australian connection, the plans are **Public Open Source** (free forever, every test public), **Private Complete** (14-day trial, no price shown) and **Enterprise** (custom). **The "Private Linux Chrome, from $300 / month" tier the review priced from is no longer offered** (it was on the same page in the 30 June Wayback capture). No figure in any currency appears on the page. Every US$300 / A$420 reference is replaced: the verdict, pricing table, weaknesses, Australian fit, score notes, meta description and both FAQ answers (body and schema). The directory tile now reads Quote only. Score unchanged: Value for Money and Australian Fit were already docked for a steep, USD-only entry, and a quote-only entry is no better. [Source](https://testrigor.com/sign-up/?ref=theaidirectory.com.au) · capture `Dossiers/captures/testrigor-pricing-2026-09-29.txt` - **28 Jun 2026** — First reviewed. - **24 Sep 2026** — **The AUD column was never grossed up for GST, and every word around it said it was.** The header read *“gross-up; GST unconfirmed”* and the note beneath described a 10% uplift — while the figures themselves are plain conversions at 1.4045\. Checked before changing a word: across the 63 files carrying this wording, **141 rows convert at 1.4045 and none at 1.4045 × 1.10**. **No figure changed here; only the description of them did.** Two things were wrong beyond the arithmetic: *gross-up* names a tax uplift and was being used for a currency conversion, and *GST unconfirmed* is stale — our GST rule settled it on 5 September 2026, and a GST-registered Australian business supplying its ABN is **not charged GST** on an imported digital service. **No USD price moved and no score changed.** `reviewed:` untouched per our dating rule. ## Sources - testRigor sign-up page (plan tiers; Public Open Source free forever and public; Private Linux Chrome "From $300 / month" in June, withdrawn by 29 September 2026; Private Complete trial-only; Enterprise custom) — https://testrigor.com/sign-up/ — checked 28 June 2026 and 29 September 2026 — Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20260630002210/https://testrigor.com/sign-up/ - testRigor homepage (product; plain-English test creation; web/mobile/desktop/API/email/SMS/2FA coverage; "100X faster" and "99.5% less maintenance" marketing claims; Azure/MongoDB/MacStadium and compliance references) — https://testrigor.com/ — checked 28 June 2026 — Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20260630002309/https://testrigor.com/ - testRigor HIPAA compliance page (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA program; "runs on leading cloud providers," no region stated) — https://testrigor.com/hipaa-compliance/ — checked 28 June 2026 — same-day Wayback capture failed (Internet Archive rate-limited the save); to be re-captured on publish per the Verification Standard — [Wayback 30 June 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260630002611/https://testrigor.com/hipaa-compliance/) - testRigor Trust Center (SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, HIPAA, GDPR; Azure/MongoDB/MacStadium subprocessors; no AU region stated) — https://trust.testrigor.com/ — checked 28 June 2026 — host blocks Wayback archiving (SafeBase-hosted); not snapshot-able — [Wayback 30 June 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260630002416/https://trust.testrigor.com/) *The historical pricing URL `testrigor.com/pricing/` returns a 404 as of 28 June 2026; the sign-up page above is the current primary source for plans and the entry price.* ## Frequently asked questions ### Is testRigor available in Australia? Yes. It is a global cloud service you can sign up for and use from Australia. There is no Australian-specific edition, billing currency or data region. ### Does testRigor charge in AUD? No. Billing is US dollars only, and private plans are now priced by quote after a 14-day trial. testRigor does not confirm GST handling, so check the tax line on your first invoice. ### Is there a free plan? Yes, but with a catch. The free "Public — Open Source" plan makes every test and result public and visible to anyone. It is unusable for real business data. Private plans have no published price; you trial one, then get a quote. ### Can I keep my test data in Australia? testRigor does not state an Australian data region. It lists Microsoft Azure as a subprocessor but publishes no residency commitment. If onshore data location matters, raise it with testRigor's sales team before committing. ### Who is testRigor best for? A team with budget that wants non-coders writing low-maintenance, cross-platform automated tests, and that can clear the data-residency question directly with the vendor. It is the wrong pick for a small, cost-sensitive business needing AUD billing and a private free tier. --- *The AI Directory is an independent Australian publication. We review and score AI tools on their merits — we don't accept payment for positive coverage. Affiliate links, where used, are disclosed and never affect a verdict. Reviewed by Adam.*