Selenium is the elder statesman of browser automation: open source, W3C-standard WebDriver, bindings for every major language, and two decades of community knowledge. Nothing about that is wrong.
The honest comparison is total cost of ownership. Selenium gives you a browser driver; reporting, parallelism, retries, selector maintenance, test data, and dashboards are yours to build and maintain. Our platform ships those built-in — and exports Selenium-compatible code, so adopting it is not a one-way door.
Choose Selenium if…
- You have dedicated automation engineers who want full control of a code-first stack.
- Budget is zero and engineering time is abundant.
- You need a language binding or niche integration only the Selenium ecosystem has.
Choose Dokimore if…
- Selector maintenance is eating your team — self-healing with a review queue attacks exactly that.
- You want recording, reporting, parallel execution, and scheduling without building the harness yourself.
- Non-engineers (QA analysts, PMs) should be able to create and run tests too.
Capability by capability
| Capability | Selenium | Dokimore |
|---|---|---|
| License cost | Free, open source | Free tier; paid tiers from $29/mo |
| Test creation | Code-first | Record in the browser or code; exports Playwright/Cypress/Selenium |
| Selector maintenance | Manual | Self-healing, 15+ fallback strategies + human review queue |
| Reporting & dashboards | Build your own | Built-in runs, analytics, exportable reports |
| Parallel execution | Grid — self-hosted setup | Execution grid built-in, fair-share dispatch |
| API / performance / security testing | Separate tools | Included in the same platform |
| Scheduling & CI hooks | Build your own | Scheduler + trigger API built-in |
| Exit path | n/a (you own the code) | Export generated Selenium/Playwright/Cypress code anytime |
Common questions
Do we lose our existing Selenium investment?
No. Migration Setup imports existing Selenium suites, classifies each test as migrated, needs-review, or unsupported, and runs them with self-healing underneath. Your suite keeps working while it gets more stable.
Is this Selenium under the hood?
Execution is Playwright-based with multi-browser support, but generated tests export to Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress — you choose the format your team maintains.
Why pay when Selenium is free?
Selenium the library is free; the surrounding system is not. Reporting, healing, parallel infrastructure, scheduling, and dashboards cost engineering months to build and forever to maintain. The platform trade is a subscription for that entire harness — measure your monthly selector-fix and harness-maintenance hours and compare.