Cypress vs Playwright — April 2025 npm Trends Download Count Comparison

The numbers confirm the accuracy of my predictions made over four years ago.

Source: npmtrends (2025–04–020)

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I predicted that Cypress would fall when I first tried it out about 7 years ago. When starting blogging on Medium in 2021, I published a few well-received articles on Cypress:

• Why Cypress Sucks for Real Test Automation? (2021–01–28)
• Why Cypress Sucks for Real Test Automation? (Part 2: Limitations) (2021–02–15)
• 👎🏼 Cypress vs 👍 Selenium WebDriver Comparison by Example (2022–06–22)
• Comments on the claims of “7 ways Cypress is different”. All False, Wrong or Lie (2023–07–08)
• Cypress.io is Dying (featured in JavaScript in Plain English publication), 2023–08–02

Of course, I did receive some skeptical or disagreeing comments — along with a few rude, personal attacks.

One comment in particular cited the npmtrends download counts (2022) to argue that Cypress remains strong. I replied: “It is a prediction. Anyone can state the current situation, wise ones make accurate predictions about the near future”. Thanks to him, I knew an…