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In house vs cloud

Selenium Grid

In house 🏠

Benefits

  • Less Cost 😉 🙌
  • More control and Customization 👨‍💻

Tradeoffs

  • Maintenance overhead 🙍🏻‍♂️
  • Need dedicated team to maintain
  • Limit to no of VM/containers

Cloud 🌩

Benefits

  • Availability and outsourced Management
  • Large no of platform/browser combinations
  • Monitoring/dashboards

Tradeoffs

  • More Cost 🤑
  • Network latency 🚶
  • Data Security 🖥

Some Available choices

  • SauceLabs, BrowserStack, Applitools Ultrafast grid, Perfecto, HeadSpin ...