tldr: Two product lines, five tiers, zero published numbers. ACCELQ sells Automate for web, mobile, and API testing in Professional and Enterprise editions, and Automate Manual in Individuals, Teams, and Enterprise editions. The one price you can pin down is free: the Individuals tier of Automate Manual costs nothing for life. Everything else is a quote, and parallel execution is a separate line on it.
ACCELQ is a codeless test automation platform that spans web, mobile, API, and desktop testing, with a design-first approach it calls a "business process" model: you model the application once and compose tests from that model. It positions against Testsigma, Katalon, and the enterprise suites.
On pricing transparency it lands with the enterprise crowd. The pricing page, checked 31 July 2026, describes "flexible pricing plans designed to fit your needs" and repeats a contact-us button where numbers would be. Support is bundled: the page states support costs are included in the annual subscription rather than sold as a tier.
What the tiers actually are
Automate, the automation product for web, mobile, and API, comes in two editions:
- Professional, the standard edition, with cloud cross-browser execution available as an add-on
- Enterprise, the custom-everything edition
Automate Manual, the manual test management product, comes in three:
- Individuals, free for life
- Teams, quoted
- Enterprise, quoted
A free trial covers the paid products, no purchase required.
The free tier is real, and narrow
"Free for life" invites suspicion, so it helps to be precise about what it covers. The Individuals tier of Automate Manual is a single-person edition of the manual test management product: organizing test cases, runs, and results. The free-for-life label is accurate, and a solo tester can get real use from it.
What it is not is automation. The Automate product, the reason most buyers look at ACCELQ, has no free tier, only the trial. Plan the evaluation accordingly: the trial window is your automation evaluation, and the free tier is not a fallback for it.
Parallel execution is its own line item
Two entries on the price list deserve attention before you get a quote.
Shared Local Agents are how ACCELQ licenses parallel execution on your own infrastructure. More concurrent runs means more agent capacity on the quote. As with every tool in this category, suite growth converts directly into concurrency demand, so the agent line is where a growing team's renewal price moves.
ACCELQ SME licenses cover business users and managers who participate in the platform without authoring automation. On paper this is a friendly idea, cheaper seats for occasional users. On the quote it is a second per-person meter, and organizations that involve many stakeholders in review should count them before the call.
Cloud cross-browser execution rounds it out as an add-on to Professional.
How ACCELQ pricing compares
Third-party listings generally place ACCELQ in the same band as other quote-only codeless platforms, well below Tosca-class enterprise suites and above self-serve tools with published prices. Without public numbers, the honest comparison is structural: you are buying seats plus agents plus add-ons, and the authoring, running, and triage of everything the platform executes stays in-house.
That structure is the real difference from a managed service. Bug0 charges a flat $2,500 a month and owns the outcome instead of licensing the tooling: a dedicated engineer builds the suite on the Passmark engine, execution and parallelism are included, and a human verifies every result. When you assemble an ACCELQ quote, the comparable number is the quote plus the loaded cost of the people operating it.
Is ACCELQ worth the cost?
The model-based approach is a genuine differentiator. Teams that test long business processes across UI and API layers, the ERP and CRM crowd in particular, get real leverage from modeling the application once. For a straightforward web product, the model adds ceremony that lighter tools skip.
Since every number is a quote, protect yourself with two questions in the first call: what does agent capacity cost at twice our current parallelism, and what do SME seats add at our stakeholder count. Those two lines, not the base seats, are where the renewal grows.
FAQs
How much does ACCELQ cost?
ACCELQ does not publish prices. Automate comes in Professional and Enterprise editions, Automate Manual in Individuals, Teams, and Enterprise, and everything except the free Individuals tier is quoted by sales. Support is included in the annual subscription. Checked 31 July 2026.
Does ACCELQ have a free plan?
Yes, one: the Individuals tier of Automate Manual is free for life for a single user. It covers manual test management only. The automation product has a free trial but no free tier.
What are ACCELQ Shared Local Agents?
The licensing unit for parallel execution on your own infrastructure. Each concurrent run consumes agent capacity, so the agent line on the quote is what grows as your suite and pipeline speed requirements grow.
What is an ACCELQ SME license?
A reduced-scope license for business users and managers who review and participate without authoring automation. Useful for involving stakeholders, and a second per-person cost to count if many people touch the platform occasionally.
How does ACCELQ pricing compare to Testsigma or Katalon?
All three are codeless platforms, but Katalon publishes prices and sells online, Testsigma quotes both of its tiers, and ACCELQ quotes everything. Third-party data places them in a similar band, with the real difference showing up in how each licenses parallel execution and extra user types.
