--- title: The $700K/Month Device Testing Mistake | daily.dev description: $1M/month for cloud device testing — or $300K in-house. Nick Metcalfe (Cambrionix) on the real cost of device farms at scale. Scaling real device testing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-700k-month-device-testing-mistake-cpnngw5tn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The $700K/Month Device Testing Mistake | daily.dev og:description: $1M/month for cloud device testing — or $300K in-house. Nick Metcalfe (Cambrionix) on the real cost of device farms at scale. Scaling real device testing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-700k-month-device-testing-mistake-cpnngw5tn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cpNngW5tn.png og:image:alt: The $700K/Month Device Testing Mistake og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The $700K/Month Device Testing Mistake **[Automation Testing with Joe Colantonio](https://daily.dev/sources/joecolantonio)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary $1M/month for cloud device testing — or $300K in-house. Nick Metcalfe (Cambrionix) on the real cost of device farms at scale. Scaling real device testing shouldn't cost a million dollars a month. See how one team saved $700k by bringing labs in-house. Cloud device farms are the standard starting point, but they become an expensive bottleneck as your team grows. If you are struggling with rising costs in your test automation suite, you are not alone. Many organizations hit a wall where the monthly bill for external device access becomes unsustainable. This episode breaks down the math behind a major infrastructure shift. By moving away from outsourced cloud device farms and building an internal lab, one company reduced their monthly expenses from one million dollars to three hundred thousand. Learn the trade-offs of scaling your own hardware versus relying on third-party vendors. Subscribe for weekly test automation breakdowns, and let me know in the comments if you are currently building an in-house lab or sticking with cloud providers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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