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The EU-hosted Percy alternative
Percy, now part of BrowserStack, pioneered visual review for pull requests. It re-renders your snapshots in its own browser infrastructure and stores them outside the EU. Difora keeps the review workflow but takes the screenshots your CI already produces and never moves them out of the European Union.
Difora vs. Percy at a glance
| Difora | Percy | |
|---|---|---|
| Company jurisdiction | 🇦🇹 Austria (EU) | 🇺🇸 / 🇮🇳 BrowserStack (US-headquartered) |
| Where screenshots are stored | EU-owned object storage in EU data centres | Outside the EU* |
| Who renders the screenshots | Your own CI | Percy's rendering infrastructure (DOM snapshots re-rendered) |
| Frameworks | Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer, Storybook — anything producing PNGs | SDKs for many frameworks |
| Pull-request check | Yes (GitHub check run) | Yes |
| Review UI | Side-by-side, diff overlay, approve/reject per snapshot | Yes, mature |
| Entry price | Free (5,000 snapshots/month), then €29/month excl. VAT | Free tier, then usage-based* |
| Free tier | 5,000 snapshots/month | Limited free tier* |
| Data processing agreement | Art. 28 GDPR DPA with EU-only subprocessors | DPA with Standard Contractual Clauses |
*Based on the vendor's own public pricing pages, documentation and data-processing terms as of 2026-09. Corrections welcome — write to us via the form on the home page.
Switch to Difora if…
- EU data residency for UI screenshots is a contractual or compliance requirement.
- You prefer deterministic screenshots from your own CI browsers over re-rendered DOM snapshots.
- You want a small, transparent European vendor with EUR invoices.
Stay with Percy if…
- You depend on Percy's cross-browser and responsive re-rendering of DOM snapshots.
- You are already deeply integrated with the BrowserStack platform.
Migration in three steps
- Keep your CI and your screenshot step (Playwright, Storybook test-runner, Cypress…). Make sure it writes PNG files to a directory.
- Add
npx difora upload ./screenshots --branch "$GITHUB_HEAD_REF"with your project token asDIFORA_TOKEN. - Approve the first build — it becomes your baseline. Every following pull request gets a pass/fail check and a review link.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move from Percy to Difora?
Replace the Percy SDK call with a plain screenshot in your test (for example Playwright's `toHaveScreenshot` or `page.screenshot`) and run `npx difora upload ./screenshots` in CI. Approve the first build as your baseline.
Does Difora re-render DOM snapshots like Percy?
No. Difora compares the PNG your CI produced. Your browsers, your versions, no third-party rendering — and no screenshot ever leaves the EU.
Can I use Difora with Cypress?
Yes. Save screenshots as PNG files in your Cypress run (or use a plugin that does) and upload the directory with the Difora CLI.
Where is Difora hosted?
On EU-owned cloud infrastructure in EU data centres (Germany/Finland), operated by Missus GmbH in Graz, Austria.
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