Ranorex Studio vs Autify

From €3,690 per year (indicative, per named-user Studio licence)

Quote on request

Perpetual and subscription options exist; runtime-only licences for CI agents are cheaper than authoring seats.

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

30-day trial.

Two-week free trial.

Established

Idera · since 2007

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

• Best-in-class desktop application support, including legacy Windows technologies.
• Object repository keeps recorded tests maintainable at scale.
• Full C# escape hatch for anything the recorder cannot express.

• 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.

• Windows-only authoring environment.
• Expensive per seat relative to open-source web tooling.
• Web automation is competent but not competitive with Playwright.

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

Organisations automating Windows desktop applications.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.