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You need to request the trial after creating and validating your account. Click **Request Trial**, choose **Individual** or **Company**, then fill out and send the form. [How do I activate my free trial?](https://support.genymotion.

You pay **$0.60 per hour for each running instance**, plus any AWS infrastructure fees. Running 5 instances for 1 hour costs the same as running 1 instance for 5 hours. Source: [Genymotion on AWS](https://genymotion.com/aws) and [Genymotion Device image](https://genymotion.com/product-device-image) Genymotion’s pricing is listed as **$0.60 / hour per instance, without cloud platform fees**.

Yes, Genymotion offers online testing and test automation with **Genymotion SaaS**. A game controller can also be used on Android 12 or later to test how an app reacts to a gamepad. - **CloudBeat** centralizes the execution and analysis of automated tests in DevOps environments. [CloudBeat](https://genymotion.

Genymotion SaaS is optimized for CI/CD, but genymotion.com's documentation only lists GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Bitrise, Jenkins, and Detox. There is no documented native GitLab CI/CD integration. It can still be used in a GitLab pipeline if the job can call the available command-line or API-based flows, but that exact setup is not documented.

Custom pricing is available, and you should contact sales at [sales@genymobile.com](mailto:sales@genymobile.com). The cloud pricing page lists **Premium** as a tailor-made plan with custom pricing and says to contact sales. It also offers annual billing and volume-oriented options on [Genymotion Android Emulator in the Cloud](https://genymotion.com/product-cloud).

Yes. Genymotion devices can be rooted dynamically, and rooted images are available on some Android versions. [Mobile Testing and Development](https://www.genymotion.com/mobile-testing-development) Genymotion also recommends using an unrooted image when an app or game refuses to run on rooted devices. If your goal is traffic capture, a rooted image may help depending on your tooling and use case.

Genymotion SaaS supports Appium-based automation, and there is a dedicated guide for running parallel tests with Appium on Android. See the tutorial here: [Parallel tests with Appium and Genymotion SaaS](https://www.genymotion.com/blog/tutorial/parallel-tests-appium-saas/). If you want a Node.

Example of a CircleCI pipeline to run Appium tests with Genymotion SaaS > **Objective**: Build the APK, start Genymotion Cloud devices, run Appium tests in parallel, and stop the devices. **Prerequisites** - Genymotion Cloud account (https://cloud.genymotion.

Genymotion SaaS now supports arm64-only virtual Android devices, so you should create or recreate your device from a recent arm64 OS image. If your app has native code, recompile it with `arm64-v8a` support. [What happened to x86/x86_64 devices in Genymotion SaaS?](https://support.genymotion.

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