Q&A
Is Selenium Grid 4 still worth self-hosting or should we just use cloud providers?
Ajitesh MohantaAmbassador
Apr 23, 2026 985 0
We're running Selenium Grid 3 on 6 VMs and it's a maintenance headache — node crashes, session leaks, version mismatches between hub and nodes.
I'm evaluating whether to:
1. Upgrade to Grid 4 (full overhaul with better Docker support)
2. Move to BrowserStack or Sauce Labs
3. Use GitHub Actions with matrix builds instead of a grid
We run ~400 tests across Chrome, Firefox, Safari. Cloud costs at our volume would be ~$300/month. What has your team done and was it the right call?