IronBee vs Bug0
IronBee is software: set it up in minutes and it verifies every change on its own, from $0. Bug0 is a managed service: an engineer at Bug0 builds and maintains an end-to-end test suite for you, from $2,500 a month.
- $0 to start. Team is $15 per seat a month
- Minutes to set up, with no kickoff
- Every change verified, not only the flows in a suite
- Live watch a run as it happens, then replay it
What IronBee brings
Software, not a service
There is no engineer to onboard and no coverage list to agree on. Add the GitHub Action or install the Vercel or Netlify integration, and IronBee verifies the next pull request or preview.
Every change, not a planned suite
A managed suite covers the flows that were planned for it. IronBee reads each commit and verifies what it touched, including the flows nobody wrote a test for.
Inside the agent, before the pull request
IronBee sits inside Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. In enforce mode a completion hook runs verification before the agent can finish a code change, so a broken change is caught before it becomes a pull request.
Root cause and the fix, with no ticket
A failed run does not wait for a person to review it and file a bug. IronBee works out the root cause from the evidence, OpenTelemetry spans and your code, and the GitHub Action can commit the fix to the branch.
See every run yourself
A run on IronBee can be watched live: the browser view, each action as it executes and the network requests behind it. Afterwards the recording replays it, with the actions, the network and the logs in step with the playback.
Priced like a developer tool
Free covers 3 seats, 100 jobs and 100 agent sessions a month. Team is $15 per seat a month. Bug0’s managed service starts at $2,500 a month.
Question by question
| Question | IronBee | Bug0 |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An AI QA engineer: it verifies each change on the real app and returns a verdict with evidence. | A managed QA service: an engineer at Bug0 working with an AI test engine. |
| Who does the work | The product. | A Bug0 engineer. |
| Getting started | Self-serve, in a few minutes. | A kickoff, then one to two weeks until the critical flows are covered. |
| What a run checks | What the change can reach, worked out from the diff. | The suite the engineer built. |
| When it runs | On every pull request and every preview, and inside the coding agent. | In CI: smoke checks on every pull request, the full regression suite nightly. |
| When a check fails | A root cause down to a file and a line. With the GitHub Action, the fix can be committed to the branch. | The engineer reviews the failure and files a bug report. |
| Price | Free for 3 seats. Team: $15 per seat a month. | Managed service from $2,500 a month. |
IronBee or Bug0, answered.
What people ask when the alternative is a managed service.
Yes, if you want every change verified without buying a service. IronBee is software: it reads each change, runs it on the real app and reports the verdict with the root cause, with nothing to schedule and no one to wait for.