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Guides

Cypress Visual Regression Testing: The 2026 Guide

How to do visual regression testing in Cypress in 2026: local diff plugins vs cloud services, real setup code, and an honest comparison of your options.
Jeremy Sfez
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Guides

How to Fix Flaky Visual Tests: Every Root Cause, Solved

Flaky visual tests come from a short list of root causes: fonts, animations, lazy loading, dynamic data. Here is the fix for each one, with code.
Greg Bergé
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Guides

Storybook Visual Testing Without Chromatic (2026 Guide)

Three ways to run Storybook visual testing without Chromatic in 2026: the Argos addon, a DIY Playwright setup, or staying put. Real pricing and setup code.
Jeremy Sfez
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Guides

Percy Alternatives in 2026: 5 Tools Compared + Migration Guide

Looking for Percy alternatives after the BrowserStack acquisition? Compare Argos, Chromatic, Applitools, and more, plus a step-by-step migration guide.
Greg Bergé
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Guides

The 9 Best Visual Regression Testing Tools in 2026

We ranked the 9 best visual regression testing tools of 2026 by pricing, capture model, and review workflow. Honest verdicts and real numbers, no fluff.
Jeremy Sfez
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Guides

Visual Testing for AI Coding Agents: Give Your Agent Eyes

AI coding agents write UI code they cannot see. Learn how visual testing lets agents verify AI-generated UI changes on every PR, with real CLI workflows.
Greg Bergé
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Guides

Percy vs Chromatic vs Argos: 2026 Visual Testing Comparison

Percy vs Chromatic vs Argos in 2026: capture models, real pricing, and honest advice on which visual testing platform to pick for your team.
Jeremy Sfez
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Guides

Lost Pixel Alternatives in 2026: Where to Migrate Now

Lost Pixel is shutting down after its team joined Figma. Compare the best Lost Pixel alternatives in 2026 and migrate your visual tests in an afternoon.
Greg Bergé
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Company News

Argos + Vitest: Visual Testing with Screenshots and Snapshots

The Argos Vitest SDK is stable: capture screenshots in Vitest browser tests, snapshot any value from browser or Node tests, and review every change on your pull request. Full setup guide inside.
Greg Bergé
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Guides

Applitools Alternatives in 2026: Pricing & 4 Tools Compared

Applitools hides its pricing and contracts often run $10K–30K+/yr. Compare the best Applitools alternatives in 2026: Argos, Chromatic, Percy, and more.
Greg Bergé
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Guides

Step-by-Step Guide: Reviewing Argos Builds with AI Agents

A comprehensive walkthrough on setting up AI agents to inspect and review visual changes in Argos builds using the CLI and the open-source skills.
Greg Bergé
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Engineering

Migrating Argos from Heroku to AWS

Lessons and technical details from Argos’ move off of Heroku Postgres onto Amazon EC2 and RDS, and a playbook others can follow for large‑scale PostgreSQL migrations.
Greg Bergé
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Engineering

From AI generated prototype to production Rust algorithm

We asked an AI agent to design a diff mask fingerprinting algorithm, validated the approach, and turned it into a fast Rust module running in the core of Argos.
Greg Bergé
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Guides

How to Choose the Right Playwright Locators

Best practices for writing stable and accessible tests in Playwright by selecting the most effective locators.
Jeremy Sfez
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Company News

Argos is now SOC 2 Type II compliant

Argos is now SOC 2 Type II compliant
Jeremy Sfez
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Guides

Why Playwright visual testing doesn't scale

Playwright's visual testing works well for solo devs but breaks down in teams. Here's why local screenshot workflows don't scale and what to do instead.
Jeremy Sfez

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