Captain
8.1#4 in test flakiness management software$10 one-timeFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
VisitCaptain vs Qualflare
What both publish
| Fact | Captain | Qualflare |
|---|---|---|
| CLI installation | Install options include a GitHub Action, Homebrew on macOS, and downloadable Linux binaries for x86_64 and aarch64. | The qf CLI is distributed through Homebrew, a curl installer, Chocolatey, Docker, and downloadable binaries. |
| Company size | LinkedIn lists RWX as having 11–50 employees. | Crunchbase places Qualflare in the 1–10 employee range. |
| Framework support | The documented integrations include xUnit, ExUnit, Ginkgo, go test, Bun, Cucumber, Cypress, Jest, Karma, Mocha, Playwright, TestCafe, Vitest, PHPUnit, pytest, unittest, minitest, and RSpec. | The Qualflare CLI parses and uploads results from 23 testing frameworks, including JUnit, pytest, Jest, Playwright, Cypress, Newman, k6, and security tools. |
| Headquarters | Columbus, Ohio, United States | Tallinn, Estonia |
| Product | Captain is an open source CLI for detecting flaky tests, retrying and quarantining them, and partitioning test files for parallel execution. | Qualflare is an AI-powered test management and observability platform that collects CI results, clusters failures, detects flaky tests, and scores release risk. |
| Rating on G2 | 0 out of 5 from 0 reviews for RWX. | 0 out of 5 from 0 reviews |
| Security | RWX says it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and that Drata tests its security and IT infrastructure daily. | Qualflare states that it uses TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest, role-based access control, mandatory SSO and MFA for staff, and immutable employee-access audit logs. |
Captain plans
- OSSFree
- Pro$10, paid once
- EnterprisePriced on request
Qualflare plans
- Open source planFree
- StarterFree
- Core$16 a month
- Scale$48 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pick Captain if…
Captain suits development teams that want to track flaky tests, retry or quarantine failures, and distribute test files across parallel jobs. Teams should check framework-specific feature availability before relying on partitioning or retries.
Pick Qualflare if…
Qualflare suits software teams coordinating manual and automated test management across supported frameworks and CI/CD workflows. It can also fit teams that need failure analysis or mobile test-result ingestion without running mobile tests through the platform.