It Seems Most “Cypress Ambassadors” Don’t Love Cypress as They Claimed

Money does not lie, People do. A fair percentage are hypocrites.

“Cypress Ambassadors: this article is not trying to convince you to dump Cypress. Instead, if you still like Cypress, suggest you donate to cypress.io, which seems to be in trouble (financially), to keep it alive.”

One article (in 2019) featured on the Cypress.io website says,

Since then, as we know, Cypress.io has done massive marketing (it even created a fancy title, Cypress Ambassador) to promote its product and commercial offerings (Cypress Cloud to execute test suites). Yes, its marketing effort paid off.

According to the latest download stats on npmjs, 5+ million weekly downloads.

Let’s say, within a span of one year (50 weeks, taking out the Christmas holiday period), if only one out of 1000 downloads (0.1%) is used to do some level of serious Cypress testing, then that’s 250,000.

Then, within these 250,000 “serious” test automation attempts, only one in a hundred (1%) reached a useful state, that’s running a sizeable suite on Cypress Cloud, the ‘real Cypress paying customer count’ would be 2500.

Assuming these 2500 customers sign up for the middle (by convention, the recommended, balanced out of the other two) Business Plan, costs $3199/year.

Cypress Cloud Pricing

Then, the estimated Cypress Cloud revenue a year would be:

$2500 x 3199 = ~$8 million

Most people would agree that the above is a reasonable and quite conservative estimate.

An important note: this estimation is mainly about new customers. If Continuous Testing is doing well, the renewal rate will be high. Therefore, there will be quite a big accumulation effect.

I have been running E2E UI Tests (raw Selenium WebDriver or raw Appium + RSpec) in CT for all my apps for years, the longest one: 11 years.

Have a guess: After 7 years since Cypress was in business, what’s the revenue from Cypress Cloud for the year (2022)? 25 million, or 50 million?

The Reality:

According to Getlatka (“a leading source of private SaaS company data”), Cypress.io’s total revenue for 2022 is merely $5 million.

Data source: https://getlatka.com/companies/cypressio

Please note that $5 million includes other sources of income, such as consulting and others. The Cypress Cloud revenue would be considerably smaller.