Qase Alternative for AI Test Case Management

TestMu AI Test Manager is the Qase alternative to shortlist for a team that manages test cases and also needs a place to run them. A test run takes browser, OS and device configurations and executes on real browsers and devices in the TestMu AI cloud, and the AI Test Case Generator drafts test cases from issues, documents and recordings. Qase remains a good fit for a team that needs a system of record for results and already runs its own grid, and its seat price is lower. The table on this page marks each row where Qase is the stronger choice.

Qase costs less per seat. As listed on October 8, 2026, the Qase Teams plan is $35 per user a month billed annually, or $42 billed monthly, with a minimum of 5 seats, so the smallest Teams subscription comes to $2,100 a year on annual billing by our arithmetic. A single Test Manager Premium seat can be bought on its own, at $49 a month on annual billing or $59 month to month. Both products have a free plan. Qase's Free plan covers up to 4 users, 2 projects and 2 active test runs, and leaves out integrations, AI, custom fields and dashboards. The Test Manager free plan has unlimited projects with test case and run creation, plus 1,000 one-time AI credits. Both vendors quote Enterprise on request. Qase's pricing page says it was last updated July 21, 2026, so check both pricing pages before you budget.

Both products meter AI with credits, and neither rolls unused monthly credits over. Qase gives 2,000 credits a month on Teams, 4,000 on Enterprise and none on Free. Credits beyond the allowance cost $0.40 each, and that extra usage stays off until someone enables it on the billing page. Once it is on, a budget cap can be set. The Qase docs count a cloud test run as an AI action, so running tests in the Qase cloud draws on the same credits as generating them. Qase also states that the cost of an action varies with its size and the number of attempts, so the allowance does not translate into a set number of test cases. Test Manager gives a free account 1,000 one-time credits, valid for one year, and Premium 2,000 credits a month, held as one organization balance that every credit-using TestMu AI feature draws on. The AI credits guide explains how Test Manager counts them.

Qase runs the tests its own AI builds, and a team brings its own grid for everything else. The Qase docs describe a Qase cloud that executes AI-built tests on Chromium, Firefox or WebKit, captures a screenshot at each step and a video of the run, and charges those runs in AI credits. For a suite a team already wrote in Playwright, Cypress or Selenium, Qase collects the results through reporters and its API, and on one of its comparison pages it calls itself grid-agnostic. Test Manager sits on the TestMu AI cloud, where a test run executes on real browsers and on the real device cloud of 10,000+ real devices. Test Manager also works on its own, and the TestMu AI execution products have their own plans.

Export the repository from Qase as a CSV file and bring it in with Test Manager CSV import. Test Manager has no dedicated importer for Qase, so plan for a file export followed by a guided import. Its direct migrations cover TestRail, Zephyr Scale on Jira Cloud, Xray Cloud, qTest and Katalon only. Qase exports test cases as CSV, XLS, XML, JSON, PDF or HTML, and Test Manager imports CSV only, in files of up to 10 MB each. In the import wizard you map the title, which is the one required field, then steps and expected results, the folder path, priority, type, status, custom fields and Jira links. A preview shows which rows will be created, updated or skipped before anything is written. Create your custom fields in the project first. The pricing page lists CSV import and custom fields under the Premium plan, so confirm what your plan includes before you export. A CSV file does not carry file attachments, run history, version history or the original author. The Qase export article does not list the CSV columns, so open the exported file and check how the suite path and the steps are laid out before you import. The CSV import guide has each step.