/// Tosca alternative
A Tricentis Tosca alternative with public pricing and code you keep
Tosca is the enterprise standard for model-based, codeless testing across SAP, web and APIs. Teams look for an alternative when the licensing (quoted, per module, often five or six figures a year) outruns a web and API testing need, or when they want the tests in an open format rather than a vendor repository. L3git is no-code in, standard Java out, with pricing on the website.
Where Tricentis Tosca is strong
Tosca is deep: model-based test design, enormous packaged-application coverage (SAP, Salesforce, mainframe, Oracle), test data management, risk-based test selection and a mature enterprise support organisation. For a large programme testing those packaged applications end to end, it is a serious tool and the licensing reflects a serious scope.
Where L3git differs
L3git is narrower on purpose: web UI, APIs and messaging, authored point-and-click, generated as a standard Cucumber + Selenium + REST Assured project you own. Pricing is public and per seat, runs are free in your own CI, it installs on a Windows desktop in minutes and works air-gapped.
- Public, per-seat pricing from $49 per user per month; no quote cycle, no per-module keys. Tosca does not publish pricing; third-party reports put single licenses in the €10,000–20,000-a-year range before modules.
- Tests in an open format. Ordinary Java in Maven, readable by any engineer and any auditor, runnable without the vendor.
- Minutes to first test: a native Windows app on the PowerShell already present, no server, no repository, no implementation project.
- Section 508 audit of every page, visual regression, API / Kafka / gRPC / WebSocket, load and security testing included in the seat.
- Offline and air-gapped with a signed offline key; nothing phones home.
- Honest scope: L3git does not do SAP GUI, mainframe or desktop-application testing. If that is your estate, Tosca or a desktop tool is the right call.
Side by side
| Capability | L3git | Tricentis Tosca |
|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | $588–$2,028 per user / yr (public) | Quoted; third-party reports ~€10k–20k+ per license / yr |
| No-code authoring | ✓ point-and-click recorder | ✓ model-based |
| Tests in an open format you own | ✓ Java / Cucumber / Selenium | × Tosca repository |
| Runs without the vendor’s runtime | ✓ mvn test | × execution agents licensed |
| SAP GUI / mainframe / desktop apps | × | ✓ |
| Web UI + API + Kafka / gRPC / WebSocket | ✓ | ✓ web + API (modules) |
| Installs on one Windows PC, works air-gapped | ✓ | × server-based deployment |
Competitor capabilities and prices are based on public information and can change — verify current offerings with each vendor. L3git prices are list; team and volume discounts apply. Full feature-by-feature table on the comparison page.
Common questions
Is L3git a drop-in replacement for Tosca?
No, and we would rather say so. L3git covers web UI, APIs and messaging. It does not cover SAP GUI, mainframe or thick-client desktop testing. For a web and API programme it does the job for a fraction of the cost with tests you own; for a packaged-application estate, Tosca is built for that.
How does the pricing compare?
L3git publishes per-seat pricing: $49 (UI), $129 (API) or $169 (Suite) per user per month, annual, with unlimited runs in your own CI. Tricentis quotes Tosca per customer; it does not publish list prices, and third-party review sites report single licenses in the ten-thousand-euro-a-year range before add-on modules. Confirm with Tricentis for your case.
Can we export our Tosca tests?
Tosca tests live in its own model repository; there is no converter. Teams moving a web or API programme re-record the flows in L3git - the recorder makes that quick - and run both until coverage matches.
Is L3git suitable for regulated environments?
Yes. It runs fully offline with a signed offline key, never receives your test data, drives the IT-installed Edge without downloading browsers, and generates auditable code. See the regulated & air-gapped page.
Try it against your own app
The trial is the whole product for 14 days — no key to request, no card, no sales call. Point it at the application you are already testing and see what it generates.