Cypress

Cypress pioneered the developer-friendly E2E testing experience. Then Playwright arrived and did everything better: multi-browser support, multi-tab testing, better parallelisation, and no artificial limitations on cross-origin navigation.

Cypress runs inside the browser, which means it can't test anything that requires multiple tabs, cross-origin redirects, or native browser events. Playwright runs outside the browser and controls it via the DevTools protocol — a fundamentally more capable architecture. We've migrated multiple test suites from Cypress to Playwright and the result is faster, more reliable, and more maintainable tests.