How WebdriverIO is used
WebdriverIO joined the catalog on its public numbers (1,466,524 downloads a week on npm and 9,853 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 8 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Playwright (JavaScript) (1,061 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Prettier (75.0%), Husky (62.5%), tsx (62.5%).
WebdriverIO popularity over time
Gid Score 48: downloads 67, use in agent projects 14, GitHub stars 50, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with WebdriverIO
| Prettier | 75.0% of WebdriverIO projects · 3.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| Husky | 62.5% of WebdriverIO projects · 6.1× more than average |
| tsx | 62.5% of WebdriverIO projects · 4.1× more than average |
| lint-staged | 50.0% of WebdriverIO projects · 6.4× more than average |
| Vitest | 62.5% of WebdriverIO projects · 3.0× more than average |
| ws | 37.5% of WebdriverIO projects · 11.9× more than average |
| Playwright Core | 37.5% of WebdriverIO projects · 31.0× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 50.0% of WebdriverIO projects · 2.9× more than average |
How WebdriverIO is funded
Open Collective: WebdriverIO
| Received, last 12 months | $25,062 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $43,684 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $2,411 |
| Raised since the start | $84,250 · $81,839 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $632 · $1,184 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -22% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 12 |
Top company backers all time, 10 companies in total
| BrowserStack | $48,000 since Jan 2024 |
|---|---|
| Sauce Labs | $24,000 since Jan 2024 |
| TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest) | $9,500 since Dec 2024 |
| TestingBot | $2,500 since Jun 2024 |
| Gridlastic | $2,000 since Feb 2025 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Mar 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @christian-bromann | 1 current sponsor |
|---|---|
| @webdriverio | 1 current sponsor |
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund WebdriverIO
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors Tidelift Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install webdriverio |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (7), Python (1) |
| Example projects | NihadMemmedli/quorvex_ai, CalebDane7/agent-browser, Codenteam/habits |
Alternatives to WebdriverIO
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside WebdriverIO are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) npm Cross-browser automation library for end-to-end testing. |
90 | 1,061 (22.0%) | 46.6M | 98.1K | Apache-2.0 |
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