Glance

By DebugBase. Category: MCP servers for testing. Homepage

DebugBase's README describes Glance as an open-source MCP server that gives Claude Code a Chromium browser, driven through Playwright. It exposes tools for browser control, test scenarios, assertions, session recording and replay, and pixel-level visual baseline comparison. Users ask Claude to test a flow in natural language, or a /glance-test skill takes a URL, finds navigation links and tests each page. Scenarios are stored as JSON files and run by Glance's own scenario runner. It runs locally on Node.js via npx, ships an e2e-tester agent for Claude Code, and is MIT licensed.

Description written from the vendor's documentation.

Status: Active

Facts

Glance: facts with evidence level, source and verification date
Fact	Value	Evidence	Source	Verified on
Status	Active	Documented	npmjs.com	2026-09-24
AI capabilities	Autonomous testing Visual testing	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Test creation	Natural language Autonomous from URL Recording	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Test output	Proprietary runner	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Surfaces	Web	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Hosting	Self-hosted	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Pricing model	Free tier	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Free tier	Yes	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
CI integrations	Not documented	Not documented	None found	2026-09-24
Self-healing	None documented	Not documented	None found	2026-09-24
Agent integration	Is itself an MCP server (npm package glance-mcp, stdio transport, Playwright-driven Chromium) exposing 30 tools for browser control, test scenarios, assertions, session recording and visual baseline comparison to Claude Code; ships a Claude Code agent definition 'e2e-tester' and a '/glance-test' skill	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24
Open source	Yes, licence MIT	Documented	github.com	2026-09-24

Published prices

Not documentedVerified2026-09-24

No prices are published.

Vendor-stated, verbatim

What DebugBase says about its product, quoted as published and not confirmed in documentation.

“DebugBase (debugbase.io) — 12 scenarios, 104 test steps, 97% pass rate”
SourceSeen2026-09-24
“GitScribe AI — 16 scenarios, 196 test steps, 96% pass rate”
SourceSeen2026-09-24

Alternatives

Tools in the same category (MCP servers for testing), ordered by the number of shared creation and surface values, then by name. Each line lists documented facts that differ from Glance.

Flutter Skill: documents output Mixed
Browser Use: documents hosting cloud
BrowserStack MCP Server: documents hosting cloud
ExecuteAutomation Playwright MCP: documents output Standard Playwright; creation by prompt to test
Gua: MCP servers for testing; no documented difference in output, creation, hosting or free tier
Operative (web-eval-agent): documents hosting hybrid; status shut down

Questions

Is this page a review of Glance?

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 Glance have a free tier?

Yes. Glance has a free tier. This is documented, checked on 2026-09-24.

What test output does Glance produce?

Output: Proprietary runner. This is documented, checked on 2026-09-24.

Is Glance still available?

Status: Active, checked on 2026-09-24.

Sources

DebugBase/glance GitHub repository and README Opened2026-09-24
Glance README (raw) Opened2026-09-24
Glance LICENSE (MIT) Opened2026-09-24
Glance commits feed (main) Opened2026-09-24
glance-mcp on npm Opened2026-09-24
npm registry metadata for glance-mcp Opened2026-09-24
DebugBase website (DNS lookup failed on retry) Opened2026-09-24

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