Katalon Studio vs Testsigma

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

From $349 per month (indicative, cloud pro)

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

Cloud plans priced by parallel runs and users; the self-hosted community edition is free but you operate it.

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

Open-source community edition, self-hosted.

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

Established

Testsigma Inc. · 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.

• An open-source edition is unusual in the low-code segment and removes lock-in anxiety.
• Natural-language steps are readable by product owners.
• Web, mobile and API in one authoring model.

• 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.

• Natural-language authoring is only approximately natural; you still learn a grammar.
• Smaller community than the established low-code vendors, so troubleshooting is slower.
• The self-hosted edition trails the cloud on features.

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

Teams that want low-code authoring but refuse to put their entire suite in a proprietary cloud.