Katalon Studio vs Virtuoso QA

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

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

Enterprise quote-based licensing.

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

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Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

Emerging

Virtuoso · 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.

• Natural-language tests remain readable by stakeholders while executing deterministically.
• Bundles visual, accessibility and API checks that would otherwise be three purchases.
• Strong story for migrating away from an unmaintainable Selenium suite.

• 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.

• Enterprise-only pricing and sales motion.
• Tests live in the vendor cloud, not your repository.
• Smaller ecosystem and community than the incumbents.

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

Enterprise QA functions replacing legacy Selenium without hiring more engineers.