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Leapwork vs Autify

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

Quote on request

Quote only

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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

Quote-based annual contracts sized by test runs.

Free tier

Free trial.

Two-week free trial.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

Codeless
CodelessJavaScript

Platforms

WebDesktopAPISAPMainframe
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

Enterprise
Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Emerging

Leapwork · since 2015

Emerging

Autify, Inc. · since 2016

Strengths

  • 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.
  • 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.

Limitations

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

Best for

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

Small QA teams that need automation without an engineering hire.

All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.