What is The Punisher?

The Punisher is a visual testing tool that automatically compares your Figma designs with actual web implementations. It detects pixel-level differences and generates detailed correction reports you can share directly with your development team or AI coding agents.

How does Figma to code comparison work?

Upload your Figma design, connect your live, preproduction, or local website, and The Punisher will perform an automated pixel-by-pixel comparison. It generates a detailed report highlighting every visual discrepancy with actionable fix suggestions.

Is The Punisher free to use?

Yes. The Punisher offers a free plan with 5 tokens per month, no credit card required. Paid plans are Basic at 49 EUR per month for 50 tokens and Pro at 149 EUR per month for 200 tokens, plus custom Enterprise volumes.

Which platforms does The Punisher support?

The Punisher is available as a desktop application for both macOS (11.0 or later) and Windows (10 or later). It works with any website - live, staging, or local development environments.

How is The Punisher different from other visual testing tools like Percy or Chromatic?

The Punisher is purpose-built for Figma-to-code comparison. It compares each element and section independently and generates actionable correction prompts that can be fed directly to AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude - eliminating subjective design reviews and enabling automated fixes.

Does The Punisher work with AI coding agents?

Yes. Each comparison report includes ready-to-use correction prompts you can paste directly into AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude or ChatGPT to automatically fix the detected design discrepancies.

Is my design data private?

Yes. The Punisher runs as a desktop application - your designs and screenshots are processed locally on your machine. We do not store your design files on our servers.

Percy vs. Chromatic

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Last updated 25 July 2026 · Maintained by the team behind The Punisher

Short answer

Choose Chromatic if your source of truth is Storybook and you want UI Review plus versioned Storybook hosting. Choose Percy if you snapshot full pages from an existing test suite and want a broad browser matrix. Neither checks whether the UI matches the Figma design — that is a separate layer.

Percy and Chromatic are the two most-compared visual testing services, and they are more alike than the marketing suggests: both capture snapshots, both diff against an approved baseline, both gate pull requests, both meter you by snapshot volume. The real decision is where your UI is defined — in Storybook, or in the running application.

Side by side

Percy compared with Chromatic
Dimension	Percy	Chromatic
Built for	Any page or component snapshotted from CI	Storybook stories
Reference model	Approved baseline snapshot	Approved story snapshot
Setup	SDK + CI integration + token	Storybook + CI integration
Cross-browser	Broad browser and width matrix	Chrome free; Safari, Firefox, Edge on paid plans
Review workflow	PR checks and approvals	UI Review, approvals, versioned Storybook hosting
Extras	Part of the BrowserStack testing suite	Interaction tests, accessibility tests, TurboSnap
Published entry price	Free tier, then metered per screenshot	Free 5,000 snapshots, then $179/month
Compares against Figma design	No	No — Figma plugin links stories, diff is snapshot-based

Pick Percy if…

You already snapshot full pages or user journeys from Cypress, Playwright or Selenium.
You need wide browser and viewport coverage as a first-class requirement.
You are already a BrowserStack customer and want one vendor and one invoice.
You do not maintain a Storybook.

Pick Chromatic if…

Your design system lives in Storybook and stories are the unit of truth.
You want UI Review, versioned Storybook hosting and interaction tests in one place.
You want TurboSnap to keep billed snapshot counts down on large libraries.
Designers and PMs need to comment on component changes without running the app.

The gap neither one closes

Both tools answer "did this change?". Neither answers "is this right?". Their baseline is a snapshot a human approved at some point in the past, so if a page was built 12px off the mockup, in the wrong shade of the brand colour and off the type scale, both will happily protect that state forever and report green.

That is the design-fidelity layer. The Punisher compares the rendered page directly against the Figma design and reports the measured differences — padding, colour, font size, position — with AI-ready prompts you can paste into Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code. It needs no baseline, no Storybook, no SDK and no CI, so it works on the very first build of a page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Percy and Chromatic?

Percy is a general-purpose visual testing cloud that snapshots pages or components from your CI via SDKs and diffs them against an approved baseline. Chromatic is built by the Storybook team and is optimised for Storybook: it snapshots stories, hosts versioned Storybooks, and adds UI Review and interaction testing. Percy is more flexible about what you snapshot; Chromatic is deeper if your source of truth is Storybook.

Which is cheaper, Percy or Chromatic?

Both meter usage by snapshot. Chromatic publishes a free tier of 5,000 billed snapshots per month, Starter at $179/month for 35,000 and Pro at $399/month for 85,000. Percy is sold within BrowserStack on a free-then-metered per-screenshot model. Real cost depends on how many browsers and viewports you render, since each combination is billed separately in both tools.

Do Percy or Chromatic compare my site to the Figma design?

No. Both compare a new snapshot against a previously approved snapshot. Chromatic offers a Figma plugin that links stories to Figma frames for side-by-side viewing, but the automated diff is still snapshot-to-snapshot. Neither measures the rendered page against the design and reports numeric deltas — that is what The Punisher does.

Can I use Chromatic without Storybook?

Chromatic's core workflow assumes Storybook. If you do not maintain a Storybook, Percy is the more natural of the two, and a design-aware tool such as The Punisher covers full-page fidelity without any test harness at all.

Should I use Percy, Chromatic, or both?

Very few teams need both — they overlap heavily. Pick Chromatic if your design system lives in Storybook and you want UI Review and hosting. Pick Percy if you snapshot full pages from an existing test suite. Add a design-comparison tool for the fidelity question neither answers.