Vera vs Checkly
Checkly is a code-first synthetic monitoring platform: you write Playwright yourself and Checkly runs it on a schedule from many locations. It overlaps Vera without being the same product.
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| Vera | Checkly | |
|---|---|---|
| Price published? | Yes — every plan and limit on /pricing | Yes. Hobby $0, Starter $24 and Team $64 per month billed annually, Enterprise custom — with a full feature table and the overage rates printed. [2026-09-05] |
| Entry price | $19 / user / month (Pro). Free plan, $0 forever | $24 per month, billed annually, for the Detect Starter plan; Hobby is $0. Checkly prices its Detect, Communicate and Resolve modules separately. [2026-09-05] |
| What you pay for | Seats. No metered runs, no resold tokens | A plan plus metered check runs. Starter includes 3,000 browser/Playwright runs and 25,000 API runs a month; beyond that it is $4.00 per extra 1,000 browser runs purchased, or $6.50 per 1,000 on automatic overage. [2026-09-05] |
| AI on your own key | Yes, on every plan including Free | There is no key to supply. Checkly's AI is Rocky, a root-cause analyser on Team and Enterprise, "enabled in your account settings… No additional configuration required". It analyses failures; it does not author the checks. [2026-09-05] |
| Export to runnable code | Playwright, WebdriverIO, Selenium (Python), TestCafe | Nothing to export — the checks are already TypeScript in your own repository: "Reuse Playwright tests as scheduled production monitors without translating them into a proprietary recorder format." [2026-09-05] |
| Runs against localhost | Yes — the local agent, no tunnel | Yes on Team and above, through a Private Location — a Checkly Agent container you run inside your own network. "No inbound ports, no allowlisting Checkly IPs, no reverse tunnel." [2026-09-05] |
| Arabic / RTL authoring | Yes — app and authoring, English and Arabic | Not documented. Arabic, right-to-left and localisation appear nowhere in Checkly's full documentation text; the checks themselves are TypeScript, so the strings you assert on can be in any language. [2026-09-05] |
| What they do better | They are older, and several have a SOC 2 report and a reference list Vera does not have yet. | Continuous production monitoring is their whole product: 22 global locations, HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP, SSL/TLS, gRPC, traceroute and heartbeat monitors, status pages and dashboards. Vera does none of it. [2026-09-05] |
The difference that is not a row
A rule covered by a test that cannot fail looks finished, and isn’t. Vera re-runs every generated test with its expectations falsified — a data table has its pass/reject column flipped, any other test has one assertion’s expected value made false — and every one of those negative controls must fail. A test that passes anyway has assertions that are not connected to your app at all: Vera records it as insensitive and refuses it as coverage, ranked below uncovered, because an uncovered rule at least looks like work to do.
When Checkly is the better choice
Continuous production monitoring is their whole product: 22 global locations, HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP, SSL/TLS, gRPC, traceroute and heartbeat monitors, status pages and dashboards. Vera does none of it. [2026-09-05]
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