Chromatic
By Chroma Software Inc.. Category: Visual AI testing. Homepage
Chromatic's documentation describes a cloud service for visual, interaction and accessibility testing of web user interfaces. It captures snapshots of existing Storybook stories and Playwright, Cypress or Vitest tests and renders them in Chromatic's cloud. Visual changes are detected by pixel diffing against accepted baselines. The docs cover GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines and custom CI providers. Chromatic also documents publishing a team's Storybook MCP server so coding agents can read component documentation.
Description written from the vendor's documentation.
Status
Status: Active
Facts
| Fact | Value | Evidence | Source | Verified on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Active | Documented | chromatic.com | |
| Founded | Not documented | Not documented | None found | |
| Headquarters | Not documented | Not documented | None found | |
| AI capabilities | Not documented | Not documented | None found | |
| Test creation | Not documented | Not documented | None found | |
| Test output | Not documented | Not documented | None found | |
| Surfaces | Documented | chromatic.com | ||
| Hosting | Documented | chromatic.com | ||
| Pricing model | Documented | chromatic.com | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Documented | chromatic.com | |
| CI integrations | Documented | chromatic.com | ||
| Self-healing | None documented | Not documented | None found | |
| Agent integration | Publishes the Storybook MCP server (@storybook/addon-mcp, Storybook 10.3+ and React) as a remote MCP endpoint for coding agents; only documentation tools are available in the published version | Documented | chromatic.com |
Published prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 / month | 5,000 billed snapshots |
| Starter | $179 / month | 35,000 billed snapshots |
| Starter: extra billed snapshots | $0.008 | Extra billed snapshots |
| Pro | $399 / month | 85,000 billed snapshots |
Vendor-stated, verbatim
What Chroma Software Inc. says about its product, quoted as published and not confirmed in documentation.
“Up to 85% Faster test runs”
“On average 41% More cost efficient”
“Our custom detection algorithm eliminates flakiness from latency, animations, resource loading, and minor DOM structure changes.”
“Setup in 90 seconds”
Alternatives
Tools in the same category (Visual AI testing), ordered by the number of shared creation and surface values, then by name. Each line lists documented facts that differ from Chromatic.
- Applitools: documents output Mixed; creation by prompt to test, natural language, recording, autonomous from URL, code generation; hosting self-hosted; no free tier
- Imagium: documents hosting self-hosted
- Percy: documents status acquired
- SmartUI: Visual AI testing; no documented difference in output, creation, hosting or free tier
- TestResults.io: documents output Proprietary runner; creation by natural language; hosting self-hosted, hybrid
Comparisons
Questions
Is this page a review of Chromatic?
No. This page is a fact sheet. Each fact shows its evidence level, its source and the date it was checked. We do not rate or rank tools.
Does Chromatic have a free tier?
Yes. Chromatic has a free tier. This is documented, checked on 2026-09-24.
What test output does Chromatic produce?
The test output format is not documented as of 2026-09-24.
Is Chromatic still available?
Status: Active, checked on 2026-09-24.
Sources
- Chromatic homepage Opened
- Chromatic pricing Opened
- Chromatic AI Opened
- Frontend workflow for AI | Chromatic Opened
- Chromatic docs Opened
- Chromatic docs: Publish your Storybook MCP server Opened
- Chromatic docs: Visual tests Opened
- Chromatic docs: Playwright Opened
- Chromatic docs: Cypress Opened
- Chromatic docs: Vitest Opened
- Chromatic docs: Accessibility tests Opened
- Chromatic docs: Interaction tests Opened
- Chromatic docs: TurboSnap Opened
- Chromatic docs: CI Opened
- Chromatic docs: GitHub Actions Opened
- Chromatic docs: GitLab Opened
- Chromatic docs: CircleCI Opened
- Chromatic docs: Jenkins Opened
- Chromatic docs: Azure Pipelines Opened
- Chromatic docs: Bitbucket Pipelines Opened
- Chromatic docs: Custom CI provider Opened
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