Checkly is for dev teams. Tracefox is for agencies.
Checkly is a legitimately great synthetic monitoring platform, if you have a DevOps team willing to write Playwright tests in TypeScript and wire them into CI. If you're an agency watching over 15 client Shopify stores, or a marketing ops lead at a DTC brand, you probably want something you can set up in 5 minutes with a browser extension. That's Tracefox.
The real difference: who you are
Both tools can watch a checkout flow. The question is which one matches your actual workflow.
Zero code vs Playwright TypeScript
Checkly tests are code. Good for teams that live in version control. For agencies, that's a meeting-with-the-dev every time checkout changes. Tracefox records the flow in a real browser, no code, no CI, no PR review.
Client-ready output
Checkly dashboards are built for dev teams debugging. Tracefox generates white-label PDF reports with your agency logo, client-friendly language, and a compliance score, something you can actually send to the client.
Agency-sized pricing
Checkly's paid plans start around $40/mo with a check-count model that adds up fast when you're running tests hourly on 15 clients. Tracefox is $69/mo for Pro, unlimited sites within your plan quota, unlimited client reports.
When Checkly is the right pick
If your team ships its own SaaS, uses Playwright or Cypress internally, runs synthetic checks against APIs alongside browser flows, integrates deeply with CI, and has engineers who maintain the tests. Checkly is genuinely excellent. We recommend it for exactly that profile. It's not what Tracefox is trying to be.
Tracefox is for people managing e-commerce sites for clients or inside a growth team, where the person who notices checkout broke isn't writing the test, and the person who sees the report is the client, not an SRE.
Record your first checkout in 5 minutes
No Playwright, no CI pipeline, no TypeScript. Just a Chrome extension and a browser.
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