Marathon Cloud vs AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm is available only in us-west-2 and runs tests on real phones and tablets, metered at $0.17 per device-minute or $250 per month per unmetered device slot, with five concurrent devices by default. Marathon Cloud runs Android emulators and iOS simulators billed per second and sizes the device pool automatically for each run.
| AWS Device Farm | Marathon Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Concurrency | 5 devices by default; more on request. | Device pool sized from your suite's history, targeting 15 minutes per run. |
| Pricing | $0.17 per device-minute ($10.20 per hour) metered, or $250 per month per unmetered device slot. | $2 per hour per Android device, $3 per hour per iOS device, billed per second. 50 free device hours to start. |
| Run timeout | 150-minute hard limit per run. | 300 seconds per test by default; no hard cap on total suite duration. |
| Devices | Real phones and tablets only. | Android emulators and iOS simulators, provisioned fresh for every run. |
| Getting started | Self-serve pay-as-you-go; 5 concurrent devices by default, more on request. | Self-serve: sign up, 50 free device hours, no credit card, one CLI command. No parallel count to buy — the pool is sized per run. |
Competitor facts verified 2026-09-29 from the vendor's public pages.
An AWS Device Farm alternative that sizes the device pool automatically
AWS Device Farm runs on real phones and tablets at $0.17 per device-minute, with five concurrent devices by default and a 150-minute hard limit per run. Marathon Cloud runs Android emulators and iOS simulators billed per second, sizes the pool from your suite’s history to target 15 minutes, and puts no hard cap on total suite duration.
Choose AWS Device Farm when
- You need real phones and tablets, not emulators or simulators.
- You want unmetered runs on a device slot for a flat $250 per month.
Choose Marathon Cloud when
- You want per-second billing instead of per-device-minute metering.
- You want the pool sized automatically per run instead of requesting more than the 5 default devices.
- You want runs without a 150-minute hard limit.
What a run costs on Marathon Cloud
A suite with 120 minutes of total test time runs on 8 devices for about 15 minutes: 2 device-hours, $4.00 on Android or $6.00 on iOS.