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Alternatives to Katalon
21 testing tools sit alongside Katalon in this directory. Below is what separates each from Katalon on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 13
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Katalon starts at
- On request
Why people look past Katalon
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Katalon entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Katalon carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 13 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Browser automation framework and the W3C WebDriver standard
- Can be used without paying; Katalon cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges.
- 1 tier to Katalon's 3.
Cloud device and browser testing platform, priced per plan tier with unlimited testing minutes rather than metered by the minute
- Sold on a Per month by parallel session count and device category model rather than Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges.
- 4 tiers to Katalon's 3.
Natural language test automation for web, mobile and API with a self hosted open source edition
- Can be used without paying; Katalon cannot.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges.
- 2 tiers to Katalon's 3.
Open source mobile automation framework hosted under the OpenJS Foundation with copyright assigned to the foundation
- Can be used without paying; Katalon cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges.
- 1 tier to Katalon's 3.
Open source end-to-end testing framework for React Native apps, built and maintained by Wix
- Can be used without paying; Katalon cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges.
- 1 tier to Katalon's 3.
The default Java unit testing framework, developed by an independent team with commercial support available via OpenElements
- Can be used without paying; Katalon cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges.
- 1 tier to Katalon's 3.
Every Katalon alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katalon (this page) | On request | Per seat per month, plus separate per-session cloud execution charges | 3 | |
| SeleniumIf your team has the engineering capacity to script directly against Selenium without paying for a low-code layer | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Sauce LabsIf you specifically need cloud device and browser execution without Katalon's authoring layer | On request | Per month by parallel session count and device category | 4 | vs Katalon |
| TestsigmaIf you want a similarly low-code commercial platform with a different pricing structure to compare against Katalon | Free | Per user per month | 2 | vs Katalon |
| Appium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Detox | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| JUnit | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| WebdriverIO | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Jest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Cucumber | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| TestNG | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| pytest | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Percy | Free | Freemium, paid tiers by screenshot volume | 2 | vs Katalon |
| GrowthBook | Free, then $40/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Katalon |
| Qase | Free | Per user per month | 2 | vs Katalon |
| PractiTest | On request | Per user per month, yearly minimum on Corporate tier | 2 | vs Katalon |
| Ranorex | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Xray Test Management | On request | Per Jira user per month, tiered to total instance size | 3 | vs Katalon |
| Applitools | On request | Per month by checkpoint volume | 3 | vs Katalon |
| Kameleoon | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Katalon |
| Split | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Katalon |
| mabl | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Katalon |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Katalon badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Katalon is most often brought in for a qa team wanting a lower-code authoring layer over selenium and appium for testers without deep coding backgrounds, an organisation wanting test management and ai-assisted test maintenance bundled with automation authoring in one commercial product, a team needing occasional cross-browser or device cloud sessions without maintaining its own device lab or selenium grid, an enterprise wanting a single vendor and support contract for test authoring, management and cloud execution together. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Katalon is broadly right and the question is cost, the Katalon pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Testing category lists everything the directory holds, and best testing tools ranks them.
Katalon runs on web, windows, macos. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Katalon alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Katalon?
- 21 other testing tools are listed in this directory, led by Selenium, Sauce Labs, Testsigma, Appium. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Katalon?
- 13 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Selenium, Testsigma, Appium, Detox, JUnit.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Katalon?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Katalon?
- Katalon is most often brought in for a qa team wanting a lower-code authoring layer over selenium and appium for testers without deep coding backgrounds, an organisation wanting test management and ai-assisted test maintenance bundled with automation authoring in one commercial product, a team needing occasional cross-browser or device cloud sessions without maintaining its own device lab or selenium grid, an enterprise wanting a single vendor and support contract for test authoring, management and cloud execution together. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Katalon?
- None of the testing tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Katalon alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Testing, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Katalon against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Katalon covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every testing tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Testing category, 21 tools beside Katalon. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.