Katalon Studio vs Autify

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

Quote on request

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

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

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

Two-week free trial.

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.