kinora vs Currents
Currents is a cloud-only paid dashboard that also orchestrates your test runs. kinora is open source, self-hostable for free with a free cloud tier, and focuses on the reporting dashboard and embedded trace viewer.
Both give you Playwright run history, flaky detection, and traces in the cloud. The differences: Currents is cloud-only with no free tier and adds test orchestration and parallelization; kinora is open source, self-hostable free forever, has a free cloud tier and a desktop app, and stays focused on reporting rather than running your tests.
kinora
kinora is an open-source dashboard that ingests every Playwright run from CI and tracks pass rates, trends, and flaky tests across projects and over time, with the full Playwright trace viewer embedded inline.
Currents
Currents is a cloud-only dashboard and test orchestrator for Playwright that parallelizes runs across CI machines and reports the results.
Feature by feature
| Feature | kinora | Currents |
|---|---|---|
| Run history & trends | ||
| Flaky detection | ||
| Playwright traces in the dashboard | ||
| Alerts (Slack / email / webhook) | ||
| GitHub PR comment on CI runs | ||
| Test orchestration / parallelization | ||
| Flaky quarantine | ||
| Open source | Fair source (FSL-1.1) | |
| Self-hosting | ||
| Free tier | 2,500 results / mo | |
| Entry price | $0 self-host / $49 Team | $49 / mo (10k results) |
| Desktop trace-viewer app | ||
| MCP server for coding agents | ||
| Data ownership | Yours (self-host) or kinora cloud | Their cloud |
Which should you pick?
Choose kinora when
- You want to self-host for free or keep test data on your own infrastructure.
- You want an open-source tool and a free cloud tier.
- You run tests with Playwright's own sharding and just need the reporting dashboard, plus a desktop trace viewer.
- Your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client) pulls failing tests, traces, and flaky history from CI over MCP.
Choose Currents when
- You want managed test orchestration and parallelization in the same tool.
- You want built-in flaky quarantine.
- Cloud-only with no self-host is fine for you.
FAQ
Is kinora a free alternative to Currents?
Yes. kinora is open source and self-hostable for free, and its cloud has a free tier, whereas Currents is cloud-only with paid plans from $49/month.
Does kinora orchestrate or parallelize tests like Currents?
No. kinora focuses on the reporting dashboard and trace viewer; you keep running tests with Playwright's own sharding in CI. Currents additionally orchestrates test execution.
Can I self-host kinora instead of using a cloud?
Yes, with a single Docker Compose bundle, unlimited and free. Currents does not offer self-hosting.
Push your first run.
Add the reporter, point it at a kinora server, and watch the history build itself.