Karate Labs 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: Karate Labs
Rating: 4.8 (14 reviews)

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Overview

Karate Labs

4.8

(14)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Karate Labs

Karate customers typically save 80% time when writing tests for a single end-point, use 60% less code, tests execute faster and integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure. More importantly, Karate has made “Test Automation Simple”. Since the first version of Karate was released six years ago, teams of all sizes use Karate and we have become a top choice for developers & QA professionals worldwide.1 million monthly downloads, use by 415+ companies including 42 of the Fortune 500, are a testimony of Karate removing friction from the developer experience (DX).

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Karate Labs Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $100.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

PLUS

$100.00

per user

No plan information available

PRO

$640.00

per user

No plan information available

ENTERPRISE

$1,400.00

No plan information available

Karate Labs Features

Popular features found in Application Development
API
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Debugging
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Pre-built Templates
Source Control
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
More features of Karate Labs
Data Import/Export
Graphical User Interface
Integrated Development Environment
Model-Based Testing
Performance Testing
Quality Assurance
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting & Statistics
Supports Parallel Execution

Karate Labs Integrations

GitHub

Jenkins

Karate Labs User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

79%

21%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.6

Gek Y.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2023

Karate User Experience

We had Karate Labs training workshops by [sensitive content hidden] to teach developers how to maximise the benefits of Karate. [sensitive content hidden] is very approachable and the Karate Open Source community is very active too. In fact, I see more and more developers outside my company become Karate converts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The product is easy to use, easy to teach and suitable for professional developers and citizen developers. The debugger in IntellJ is good to use. Karate allows UI Hybrid tests. We don't need to use selenium. You can use it to do API, UI, UI Hybrid End to End tests together using one testing framework. Supporting multiple frameworks can be expensive. This means cost effectiveness.

Cons:

I would like to see more mobile app support on Karate Labs so it doesn't focus only on API, UI. I like hybrid tests for more efficient software development time and mobile app developers can work closer with api developers to write End to End tests together using one testing framework.

Lina K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2024

Speed up your automation and make everyone understand what you're testing

It is great, I've implemented it in 3 different companies already. It allows me to start covering my API with tests right away and in a fast pace

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of setup, ease of writing tests even for juniors and the fact that it uses Gherkin, allows everyone to understand the tests.

Cons:

Visual testing still need some improvement, Karate is strong for API and performance tests

Vendor Response

Hi Lina: we thank you for your feedback and the continued support to Karate. Please keep sharing insights on the new features the community will like to see in Karate.

Replied August 2024

Mauricio A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2024

Karate Labs Product according to my experience

Until now, very good, I only had a problem with the logs and my CI tool, but in general it is a good tool to automate API tests

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to understand and the executions are quick and clean

Cons:

The price of the product, I know that the product needs a revenue to keep working, but the price can make that other testers may prefer using cheaper options

Vendor Response

Hi Mauricio: Thank you for your feedback. Karate open-source continues to remain open-source and free under the MIT license. Users/teams/Enterprise can continue to download and use Karate open-source using Maven, Gradle, Standalone Jar, Docker, NPM and JBang. The Karate plugins have been proprietary software (not open-source) since we launched the IntelliJ plugin (June 2022) and VS Code extension (Sep 2022). Our ambition is: • Build a principled company, not driven by market valuation. • Stand on our own feet – not be driven by venture capital. • For which we need to be profitable to continue investing in the open-source code and elevating test automation experience. The ROI from the adoption of Karate delivers the efficiency for testers. Cheaper is not necessarily better. We look forward to your continued support to Karate.

Replied August 2024

Kanishka J.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2024

Awesome Tool

Very satisfied. It has made my automation work very efficient.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is an excellent tool in all sense. Used it for both API and UI automation. Found pretty amazing with parallel execution, negligible flakiness, code less automation.

Cons:

Gatling is not yet up to the mark as much as Jmeter.

Vendor Response

Thank you, Kanishka, for the review. Please write to us on specific features you will like to see in Karate for API performance testing.

Replied August 2024

Adrian N.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2023

An Automation Tool Built by Testers for Testers

When I started using Karate I barely knew any programming. Seven years later I've landed jobs to work on advanced automation projects. I owe it to the great mentors I've had along the way, one of those being Karate. The product, the creators, and the community have helped make my career the success it is today.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The framework makes it possible for none technical people to learn automation and contribute to testing efforts as they go. It's a framework that was built not on buzzwords or industry trends, but on solid quality assurance fundamentals.It's the only framework I'm aware of that can bring unskilled and highly skilled QA automation folks together, without imposing rigid UI's, and without requiring in-depth knowledge of a programming language.Karate also has the best customer support of any open source framework I've used. Responses to questions are quick, and there is an openness to improve and enhance the framework that has led to many of it's best features.

Cons:

For more advanced users, having to be constrained by the DSL can be a bit difficult. Also the lack of a built in reporting tool that works across all major CI companies means you may have to write your own. If your a JS shop, I believe node support is still in the early stages.

Reasons for switching to Karate Labs

The homegrown framework designer left, and we didn't have any documentation. It was decided it would be better to use an open source project that could offer us support than attempt to reverse-engineer the framework we had in house.

Robert I.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2023

An absolute MUST in your test automation toolbox!

Karate has made it a whole lot easier to solve some very complex testing scenarios that involve initializing third-party components, setting up test data, running API tests, followed by web and desktop UI tests, sometimes even combining them within one feature file. It also greatly simplified the post-execution steps for capturing test runs for compliance purposes. I have onboarded several engineers to use Karate and observed their proficiency in the framework grow very rapidly. Karate is truly a breath of fresh air when it comes to often daunting and complex world of test automation!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've been using Karate for 4+ years now and it's been a great experience all around! First off, the documentation is very comprehensive and includes great examples. As a low-code framework, it is relatively easy to adopt for programmers of all levels. Its VS Code plugin enhances development and debugging experience. One of my most favorite features is its support of variety of different types of testing - API, web UI, desktop UI, performance, etc. The framework comes with a highly detailed test execution report, which can be very handy for debugging.

Cons:

It's hard to think of any downsides of Karate, really. My only slight gripe that comes to mind has to do with error messages. Specifically those thrown by the JS engine, which can be ambiguous and sometimes hard to decipher.

Nathan C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Simple tests are easy, built-in features can be augmented with Java/JavaScript

This solution is easy to teach to people without a lot of coding experience, but it is capable of being extended by those with a deeper skillset. Because Karate also uses Scenarios in Feature files, teams who are using a Cucumber framework can create Karate tests which live alongside legacy Cucumber tests, enabling a team to increase productivity by developing tests which are faster and more stable, while continuing to run their legacy tests. Both tests can exist side-by-side, in the same repository, so the team doesn't have to switch all at once. As Cucumber tests are rewritten in Karate, tags can be adjusted to coordinate which tests are run by which framework.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Karate is an excellent solution for API testing and works well for UI testing as well. I have used it with both Selenium and Playwright for browser automation. It has an extensive set of features with lots of useful capabilities built-in. When more advanced, custom capabilities are needed, the built-in functionality can be augmented using Java and/or JavaScript. We can easily make use of any available Java library and we can manipulate Java objects while debugging in a way which is not typical when working with Java. New code can be written and executed at runtime, while debugging, which makes for very quick development in a very productive, interactive workflow. The framework is very well documented.

Cons:

There are some aspects of working with Karate that take some getting used to. For instance, it is a bit odd at first for one scenario to call another scenario as if it were a function, but once you learn how it works, it is easy to work with.

Anthony S.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2023

Karate: A Test Automation Superstar

I can't recommend Karate enough. It's really transformed the way my organization tackles API projects, and enabled our QA engineers to focus more on what they do best -- ensure quality in our products -- and less on learning to become Java developers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Karate is well documented and well supported. [sensitive content hidden] is all over Stack Overflow, so if you run into an issue, chances are he's already answered your question, or will have an answer for you within hours. But the DSL is so simple to learn, chances are you won't have any issues getting up and running with it. And unlike other solutions, Karate offers a full range of automation capabilities: client-side assertions for API, UI & desktop testing, server-side mocks/simulators, and even performance testing (executed by Gatling).

Cons:

This is hard to answer, as Karate's Java interop capabilities make calling Java code incredibly easy, which means if Karate doesn't offer something "out of the box," you can simply spin up a custom Java class that accomplishes what you need it to. That said, it would be nice if Karate offered some built-in Kafka capabilities (e.g. the ability to write to and read from a specified topic using a REST endpoint).

Reasons for choosing Karate Labs

Easy of use, flexibility, and the fact that it could replace multiple tools (Cucumber/JGiven for end-to-end testing, Locust for performance testing, Wiremock for mocking, Selenium for UI testing).

Reasons for switching to Karate Labs

I am not much of a Java guy, but found myself in a Java shop where all our automation was written in Java (well, specifically, Cucumber, which just means some plain English Gherkin statements masking a whole bunch of Java "glue"). I needed to keep pace with my development partners, but also had a life outside of work to attend to. Karate was the perfect solution: easy to learn, easy to use, and powerful enough to handle all my automation needs.

Oscar B.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2023

Karate is a great swiss-army knife of the automation test community

I am using karate to automate the API testing and end-to-end of a number of core microservices as well as Redis and Kafka.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Karate is easy to write tests once then duplicate or re-create for other teams purpose and scope. I also love the fact that almost no development or code is required to get started. This makes handing over and teaching how to write automated tests for my team a simple task.I also love the speed and accuracy with which test logic and assertions can occur. And the framework is very flexible for integration

Cons:

It would be nice to know if there is a clear frontrunner to use gradle or maven to base the build off. Likewise it would be good to have one 'preferred' http client.

Reasons for choosing Karate Labs

A number of reasons to choose karate over something like Selenium. First off, the biggest drawcard is not having to continuously write new Java and Cucumber code. Karate's seamless DSL being integrated into

Lyubomir L.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed May 2023

The one stop automation suite

I've been doing automation since the days of IBM Rational Robot and QTP. For all this years, automation was a high effort/low result exercise. After we adopted an of the shelf tool in the last year, and due to it's high price I had to migrate all tests to Karate. It took me just 1 month to develop the whole suite from selenium based mess to karate.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Can be adopted fast even by non QAs- GIT- Full control of your suite- API, but more importantly WEB UI testing - so easy- Docker the tests! Just find some random linux machine as your executor, no VMS, no AWS - just a linux console- Complete control of automating APIs - we use it for monitoring, to slack a report, to do the API tests- Good support- Easy to understand

Cons:

- Support, but I know that it will be improved in the future

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