1. allowing visual regression testing integration in any part of your flow(locally for free, paid on the platform) with any need for visual testing(stories, pages, components, cypress, playwright). Chromatic is focused on building upon their fundament - storybook. 2. making it affordable. Everybody agrees to one thing - the prices to visual tests are bonkers when it comes to SaaS. We embraced the fact that people want flexible and cheap as much as they want fast and expensive. We will allow to run actual engine on your premises making our pricing significantly cheaper, we will allow storing images on your side which will again make it ridiculously cheap for you as you won't be paying markup that we otherwise could induce on those things. 3. not being protective of our codebase for core part of the offer. We want community to build the top-notch visual regression testing engine with us to serve the community!
Hope it sheds some light into bigger picture, otherwise Chris & I will definitely add the table for comparison with Chromatic & Percy. this is very legit point, thank you!