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Pricing

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One rate, metered by the hour a device is actually running your tests. No seats, no parallel-slot licences, no minimum.

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$2 / device hour · Android
$3 / device hour · iOS
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Volume pricing and annual terms
SAML SSO and IP allowlisting
Security questionnaire support
Dedicated support channel
Every plan includes
The full product
Automatic retries of flaky tests
Video, logs and screenshots for every failure
Devices scaled to target 15 minutes
Android and iOS
Support from the engineers who built it
What that looks like

A 300-test suite uses about 3.8 device-hours per run, so one full check of one change costs roughly $8 on Android. Three checks per engineer per day:

Team of 5 ~300 runs / mo ≈ $2,400 / mo
Team of 15 ~900 runs / mo ≈ $7,100 / mo
Team of 40 ~2,400 runs / mo volume pricing

Billing runs from the first test starting to the last test finishing on each device, to the second. Device boot, app install and artifact upload are not billed. Retries are billed as normal device time: a retry is one test on one device, not a rerun of the job. iOS runs are billed at $3 per device-hour.

The same device-hours elsewhere

Public list prices per device-hour.

Real devices cost more per hour, and they earn it for hardware you cannot emulate yet: a physical camera, fingerprint and face sensors, NFC. For the rest of your UI suite, virtual devices give the same verdict faster and for less. Firebase virtual devices are cheaper per hour; what you pay for here is finishing in 15 minutes on however many devices that takes, and retrying single tests instead of whole jobs.

List prices as of September 2026.

Virtual devices (emulators and simulators)
Marathon Cloud Android – iOS, billed per second $2 – $3
Firebase Test Lab Android virtual devices, per device-hour $1
Maestro Cloud per device, billed monthly from $250 / mo
Real devices
Firebase Test Lab physical devices, per device-hour; iOS is physical-only $5
AWS Device Farm $0.17 per device-minute $10.20
BrowserStack App Automate per parallel test, billed annually from $199 / mo

ROI

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See what your current setup costs in engineering time and infrastructure, and what Marathon Cloud would cost instead. Conservative defaults, every assumption editable.

15
3 100
55 min
Engineers start context-switching and losing focus
15 min 3 hrs
Platform
We pay for test devices today (our own lab or a device cloud)
Team of 15 · 55 min CI today · Android · 300 tests
Test gate on every change
55 min → ~15 min
Focus time recovered
210 h / month ≈ 1.3 FTE of capacity · 9% of team
+$25,200/mo
Flaky failures handled off the critical path
27 false failures / month × 15 min · the test still needs fixing, just not while CI is red
+$810/mo
Marathon Cloud bill
900 runs / month · 3,544 device-hours
−$7,100/mo
= Net each month
3.7× return
$18,900
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A directional estimate, not an accounting statement. Every assumption is editable above.

Frequently asked

What exactly is a device-hour?

Time on a virtual device from the moment the first test starts until the last one finishes, billed to the second. Device boot, app installation and artifact upload are not billed. A retry of a flaky test is billed as normal test time for that one test; the run is never restarted.

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