Autify vs Katalon Studio

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From $84 per seat/month (Professional, billed annually; $184 month-to-month)

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

The seat price is only part of it: CI execution needs add-ons priced separately — Runtime Engine at $145/licence/month and cross-browser or mobile device sessions at $158/session/month — so a parallel CI setup costs several times the headline seat figure.

Two-week free trial.

Free plan covers local authoring and execution for web, mobile and API.

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

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