We moved on from Cypress. Why haven't you?

Playwright’s architecture reduces test flakiness by design. It runs tests in isolated browser contexts, uses native events (not simulated ones), and avoids Cypress’s common failure points like iframes, async chaining issues, and browser quirks. That means fewer reruns, faster feedback, and less time debugging CI-only failures.Teams are experiencing 15.60% less flakiness with Playwright.

Cypress runs one test per process and takes seconds just to boot. Playwright’s lightweight runner executes multiple tests per machine in parallel, drastically reducing test duration and CI wait time.

• Ramp cut test duration by 32%
• Lingvano reduced CI time by 70%
• Checkly found Playwright to be ~23% faster

With faster feedback loops and fewer reruns due to flake, Playwright reduces both direct CI cost and indirect developer time waste.Ramp reduced their CI usage by 62%

• Cypress: Experimental support since 2022

• Playwright: Built-in support for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit (Safari)

Teams looking to cover all major browsers cannot rely on Cypress.

Playwright ships with native support for critical features like trace viewer, test retries, code coverage, accessibility testing, visual comparisons, and multi-tab flows — with no plugins, no configuration, and no paywalls.

In contrast, Cypress lacks many of these features natively. Some are only available through community plugins (with maintenance risks), while others, like parallelization, flake detection, or advanced reporting are locked behind a paid plan.

Playwright is built on modern browser APIs with a flexible, low-level architecture that scales with your organization’s needs.

Its open tooling, strong ecosystem, and growing community make it a safe long-term choice for engineering leaders who need reliability, extensibility, and control across large, distributed teams.