Autify vs Leapwork
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
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Quote onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.
Enterprise quote-based licensing, typically annual and sized by concurrent runners plus authoring seats.
Free tier
Two-week free trial.
Free trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Autify, Inc. · since 2016
Emerging
Leapwork · since 2015
Strengths
- 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.
- 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.
Limitations
- No self-hosted option.
- Limited support for complex data-driven scenarios.
- Smaller international presence and support footprint than the US vendors.
- 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.
Best for
Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.
Enterprises where business users must own automation and Citrix or mainframe is in scope.
All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.