Katalon Studio vs Autify

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

Quote on request

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.

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

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

Two-week free trial.

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.