I'm a front-end developer at a UK agency. We manage around 20 active client projects at any given time — e-commerce builds, custom integrations, the usual — and for the last few years we've been progressively rolling out Cypress and Playwright test suites across them. It went well, until we looked at the bill. During the test-building phase alone — not full runs, just iterating on the suites themselves — our Bitbucket pipeline costs jumped by £300 a month. That's before a single complete test run against a client's environment. Some of our larger clients have test suites that run for close to an hour. Across 20 projects, the maths gets painful fast. The problem isn't that automated testing is expensive. It's that the tooling assumes you're running everything through a cloud CI pipeline, and cloud CI pipelines charge by the minute. We kept having the same conversation internally: "We need to revisit how we're running these tests." Every suggestion had a catch. Use Cypress Cloud?…