Testsigma vs Katalon Studio

Free tier available

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

Pro and Enterprise cloud plans use custom pricing. Request a quote for your team's platform coverage and execution needs. The community edition is free to self-host, with infrastructure and maintenance managed by your team.

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.

Apache-2.0 community edition, self-hosted — the GitHub repo is still actively maintained.

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

Established

Testsigma Inc. · since 2019

Widely used

Katalon, Inc. · since 2016

• An open-source community edition adds a self-hosted option alongside the managed cloud.
• Natural-language steps are readable by product owners.
• Web, mobile and API in one authoring model.

• 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.

• Structured natural-language steps use a defined syntax; plan time to learn it during onboarding.
• The community and cloud editions differ in feature coverage; check the edition against your requirements.

• 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.

QA teams that want readable web, mobile and API automation, with a choice of managed cloud or self-hosted deployment.

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