Selenium as a service? Browserstack on a budget?

Hi,

Are there any other devs out there who struggle to implement automated testing for their application?

I have a bunch of automated browser tests that I run locally whenever I make changes to my code. All it does is:

• Spin up a selenium grid instance plus a few headless browsers in a docker-compose project
• Run a bunch of tests
• Capture a video of the test execution so I can debug test failures easily

I'm aware that there are a hold bunch of solutions out there that do this already, but the price of these makes them impossible as a bootstrapped maker:

• Browserstack ($1249/month!!)
• Gridlastic ($395/month)
• Lambdatest ($119/month)

For what I need, I reckon I can spin up something in AWS, maybe within the free tier limits, which would support a decent number of end users.

Is this a problem that other devs have? Is a service like this something that you'd consider paying for, if the price was right?

Thanks for your feedback,
Chris