Katalon Studio vs Reflect

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

From $99 per month (indicative entry plan)

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

Priced by test runs and concurrency; entry plans suit small suites.

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

14-day trial.

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

Emerging

Reflect Software · since 2019

• 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.

• Nothing to install; a non-technical colleague can record a regression test in ten minutes.
• Handles file uploads, iframes and email verification, which trip up many no-code tools.
• Transparent published pricing, which is rare in this segment.

• 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.

• Cloud-only, so testing a private environment requires network work.
• Not suited to very large suites or heavy conditional logic.
• Small vendor — check longevity if this becomes critical infrastructure.

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

Startups that need ten critical journeys covered without owning a framework.