Autify vs Katalon Studio

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From $175 per licence/month (indicative, annual)

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

Pricing is tiered by licence type (Studio, Runtime Engine, TestOps) and adds up quickly once you need parallel CI execution.

Two-week free trial.

Katalon Studio Free covers local test creation and execution with limited features.

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

• Very low barrier to a first working suite — recording plus a managed browser cloud.
• Maintenance burden is genuinely reduced by the self-healing model.
• Covers web and native mobile from one vendor.

• One tool spanning web, API, mobile and desktop, which avoids stitching four frameworks together.
• Manual testers become productive in days rather than months.
• Built-in reporting and test management reduce the number of separate purchases.

• No self-hosted option.
• Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
• Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.

• Record-and-playback suites become brittle at scale unless someone refactors them into keywords and objects.
• Proprietary project format makes migrating away expensive — real lock-in.
• Heavy desktop IDE; version control and code review are awkward compared to plain-text tests.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

QA teams without dedicated automation engineers that need coverage across several platforms.