# Sauce Labs

> Sauce Labs provides cloud infrastructure and software for testing web and mobile applications. Teams use remote browsers, virtual devices, physical phones, visual checks, and error reporting to verify releases; its AURA platform adds AI test authoring and analysis.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Jason Huggins (Co-founder; Selenium creator), Steven Hazel (Co-founder; principal architect in the 2019 company interview), John Dunham (Co-founder; founding CEO), Al Sargent (Co-founder, identified in the company’s April 2022 origin account)
- **Products:** Virtual Device Cloud, Real Device Cloud, Sauce Visual, Sauce Mobile App Distribution, Sauce Error Reporting / Backtrace
- **Notable:** Reported more than one million tests daily in its November 2016 funding announcement., Reported more than two million tests daily in its March 2019 funding announcement., Reported a dataset exceeding 8.7 billion test executions in 2026 platform announcements.

## Products & services

- **Virtual Device Cloud** — Remote desktop browser environments and mobile emulators and simulators for automated and manual tests.
- **Real Device Cloud** — Managed physical Android and iOS devices, with public and dedicated private pools.
- **Sauce Visual** — Visual regression testing to identify interface changes.
- **Sauce Mobile App Distribution** — App distribution and beta-testing capabilities incorporating TestFairy.
- **Sauce Error Reporting / Backtrace** — Cross-platform crash and exception diagnostics spanning development and production.
- **Sauce AI for Insights** — AI assistance for querying test results and analyzing failures; availability announced December 2025.
- **Real Device Access API** — Programmable device-level controls accessed through HTTP requests; general availability announced February 2026.
- **Sauce AI for Test Authoring** — Generates executable tests from intended behavior, with human review and editing; general availability announced March 2026.
- **AURA** — AI-Unified Release Assurance connects authoring, execution, analysis, and feedback with human oversight.
- **ARM-native virtual Android devices** — Virtual Device Cloud offering on Google Cloud C4A metal infrastructure, announced September 29, 2026.

## Achievements

- Reported more than one million tests daily in its November 2016 funding announcement.
- Reported more than two million tests daily in its March 2019 funding announcement.
- Reported a dataset exceeding 8.7 billion test executions in 2026 platform announcements.
- Walmart’s August 2018 case study reported approximately 50,000 automated tests daily and movement from twice-monthly to multiple daily deployments as part of a broader testing overhaul.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced ARM-native Android virtual devices on Google Cloud C4A metal, plus Google Cloud Marketplace availability, September 29.
- **2026-08** — Announced bring-your-own-model support for AURA enterprise customers, August 19.
- **2026-07** — Launched AURA, July 22.
- **2026-03** — Announced general availability of Sauce AI for Test Authoring, March 17.
- **2026-02** — Announced general availability of Real Device Access API, February 25.

## Links

- Website: https://saucelabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sauce-labs/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/saucelabs
- GitHub: https://github.com/saucelabs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzUaF3G8L5rfoh9xR6a51kg
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saucelabs

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Last updated: 2026-10-01