Leapwork vs WebdriverIO

Quote on request

Free and open source

Enterprise quote-based licensing, typically annual and sized by concurrent runners plus authoring seats.

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

Free trial.

Everything, self-hosted

Emerging

Leapwork · since 2015

Widely used

OpenJS Foundation · since 2015

• Genuinely usable by non-technical staff — the flowchart model is easier than any script-behind-a-recorder approach.
• Covers Citrix, virtual desktop and mainframe environments that most tools cannot touch.
• Doubles as an RPA platform, which can consolidate two budgets.

• One API for web and native mobile, which is rare and genuinely useful if you ship both.
• Vendor-neutral: swap between local, grid and any device cloud by changing config.
• Mature plugin ecosystem for reporting, visual testing and accessibility.

• Flowcharts do not diff or merge, so version control is essentially unusable.
• Complex logic becomes an unreadable sprawl of blocks.
• Enterprise pricing with no small-team entry point.

• Configuration-heavy compared to Playwright; the wdio.conf.js file becomes a project of its own.
• Inherits WebDriver's flakiness characteristics when used in WebDriver mode.
• Smaller community than Playwright or Cypress, so obscure problems take longer to solve.

Enterprises where business users must own automation and Citrix or mainframe is in scope.

JavaScript teams that need one framework covering both web and native mobile.