Katalon Studio 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Katalon Studio

4.4

(706)

Pricing

Starting at $135.00 per month

About Katalon Studio

Katalon is a comprehensive, all-in-one quality management platform that enables quality assurance, DevOps and software teams of any size to deliver world-class customer experiences faster, easier, and more efficiently. The platform accelerates end-to-end software development by powering the authoring, execution, and insights of test automation across any app or environment, and flexibly integrates across a team’s architecture and processes.

Founded in 2016, Katalon is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. For more info about Katalon, please visit katalon.com.

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Katalon Studio Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $135.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Studio

$0.00

flat rate

Plan includes:

API Testing
Desktop Testing
Mobile Testing
Web Testing

Studio Enterprise

$170.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

API Testing
Desktop Testing
Extended Features
Helpdesk Support
Mobile Testing
Private Plugins
Web Testing

Runtime Engine

$135.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Enable CI/CD Integration
Schedule & Run Tests in Parallel
Support All Execution Environments

Katalon Studio Features

Popular features found in Automated Testing
API
Collaboration Tools
Customizable Reports
Hierarchical View
Model-Based Testing
Monitoring
Reporting & Statistics
Requirements Management
Software Testing Management
Supports Parallel Execution
Test Script Reviews
Workflow Management
More features of Katalon Studio
Action-Word Testing
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Data Extraction
Data Import/Export
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Issue Management
Issue Tracking
Move & Copy
Parameterized Testing
Performance Testing
Quality Assurance
Requirements-Based Testing
Static Analysis
Unicode Compliance

Katalon Studio Integrations

TestRail

Slack

Tricentis qTest

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Azure

TestMu AI

See all 9 integrations

Katalon Studio User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

49%

43%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.3

Souhil S.

Verified reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

an Excellent Automation Testing Solution for Everyone

It helped me a lot by saving me a lot of time because I do some tasks automation on it and I run some tests to see what's working and what's not. It's free and easy to use and it's perfect for everyone especially for a small business like me who don't need to have programming skills to runs some web and API tests and do Web Automation. It's an amazing tool and I hope the Katalon Studio team will keep improving it in the future.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

I like it because It's % Free tool and It's very easy to use with an excellent user interface. It helped me to test some Automation tasks using an Excel spreadsheet and I find it very useful especially the record option because I don't need to code anything I just need to click record and start to do my task from A to Z and after this, I will just put everything into a Loop and all my tasks are fully Automated. It's very easy to use and I saved a lot of time using it because I don't have much experience as a programmer and to get someone to program an Automation tool for your business is very expensive but, with the Help of Katalon Studio now I have the Knowledge to Automate any simple task I have. I run some tests on multi browsers and It's very easy to create cross-browser testing and It allows me to do multi API and Web service testing too. I love when I get real-time reports about the performance of my test so, I can fix the bug without checking everything. I like the pre-installed templates because for someone with a little knowledge of coding I can just use Katalon templates and they get the work done without any problem. They have an amazing support team and a lot of blog posts and question answered on their Community website also, I like when they send me a lot of useful tips and tricks by Email weekly and there's a lot of YouTube Videos about this tool and I learned a lot from it too.

Cons:

They can add more features and integrate with other testing and automation tools because this will help in saving a lot of time. They can improve their Recorder tool and they can add more Browsers too.

Sara G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed September 2019

QA Review of Katalon

We've so far had a great experience using Katalon. I'm very excited to introduce it to the company and hope we're able to fully utilize it and keep it around.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really love how easy it is to create objects and reuse on multiple sites. The copy/paste/move up/move down options are super easy to use. This makes it easy to maintain our work and make it fun to consistently use.

Cons:

Its very difficult to troubleshoot issues. We've started keeping very detailed documentation about which errors may occur and when. If it weren't for that, I'm not confident our QA team would be able to understand how to fix/get past whatever is happening. I would really like to see clearer notes as to why something would be causing an error.

Reasons for switching to Katalon Studio

Ghost inspector's xpath wasn't dynamic enough to understand how to submit our forms after we made small changes to the page. Katalon gives us the opportunity to set up a page and know that it'll still successfully pass, even if we did minor changes.

Aditya T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Katalon Studio is the next big thing in automation testing world

Previously 5

Overall I have been using Katalon studio for more than an year, I have been impressed with the advancements they have made in their product, it has certainly been a more favorable tool for our organization.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Previously 5

Customer support

Functionality

Previously 4

Pros:

It is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time. offers a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing etc.

Cons:

the only con is that they release new version every 15 days, it becomes a problem to stick with one version as there are many bug fixes and new feature update.

Bhavani N.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2019

The 'Does it All' tool!

Easy to get onboarded and start of with automation of tests. The level of coding expertise required to start test automation is comparatively low.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to integrate with the latest & most generally used tools for deployments & development.

Cons:

I have to keep check of the Chrome versions that the tool supports!

Reasons for switching to Katalon Studio

The ready-to-use framework and ease of integration available with Katalon Studio

Alexander B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed August 2019

Automated Testing made easy!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

When I joined my current company there was no software automation, it was suggested that I head up the investigation and implementation of automated testing. I did my research and found out about Katalon studio. At first it was very intimidating but when I put my head down and really started using it I found out how powerful the software was. The amount of resources for learning and feedback from the community is what makes it such an awesome piece of software to work on. Katalon studio is now a daily driver in our office and the best of all is that its fee. Go ahead and try it out today

Cons:

There is not anything to dislike currently as I have only been using it for about 6 months now.

Reasons for choosing Katalon Studio

Katalon studio is easier for someone to use with no coding background whereas the other options are only developer friendly

OLUGBENGA O.

Verified reviewer

Banking

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2019

KATALON AUTOMATION TOOL: FREE, EASY AND CAPABLE

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its easy to download (no installation needed) and use feature. Multiple methods of scripting test cases. No or little programming knowledge

Cons:

Takes time to load. Freezes often. Some configurations aren't so straightforward

Reasons for choosing Katalon Studio

Easy to use and understand. Easy to build test suites and test collection.

Emdad H.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2021

Katalon is a Great Tool for an Automation Engineer, All heavy lifting is already done the this tool.

Overall this is the best Automation Tool I have ever used in last 20 years.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I can use my Selenium and Java experiences. Learning is very easy. You can do anything you need for automation including GUI, API, Mobile in one tool. Very productive for Automation.

Cons:

Having difficulties to integrate with AWS Device Farm

Reasons for choosing Katalon Studio

Productive, less expensive, Easy to use, Groovy and over al structure, TestOps features

Reasons for switching to Katalon Studio

I find no limitation

Jeremiah S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Excellent testing product

We have used Katalon for two use cases. Initially it was primarily used for automated monitoring of multiple Single Sign On solutions - allowing us to setup a batch run that hourly would sign in to our various client sites and insure successful sign in and log out through the sites. We have also used for automated testing of API development.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Katalon Studio is an affordable solution that allows for many complex testing needs to be met and integrated within the QA pipeline. We used Katalon as a testing agent for our API developments and ongoing monitoring for Single Sign On solutions. Setup was quick and easy with more in depth functionality as we saw fit available to fine tune our testing and monitoring.

Cons:

There was a small learning curve in the language used to develop the scripts but nothing major. The biggest hit came when they moved from allowing us to call Katalon via a batch script for free and making you pay for individual engines to run to allow for our monitoring.

Reasons for choosing Katalon Studio

costs

Noor Yeaser K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2019

Katalon Studio - The one stop solution to software testing

Now all my test scripts are built with this tool. I don't have to solely rely on Postman to test backend APIs or just Selenium Webdriver to test frontend web applications or Appium to automate mobile applications. I do prepare all my automation test scripts now using Katalon Studio.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The tool can be used to test the following: 1) API 2) Web Applications 3) Mobile applications Requires minimal programming knowledge to leverage the tool for application testing. Easily integrated with 3rd party applications like Slack. Ready, Handy and FREE plugins available to make testing more effective. Test scripts are interchangeable with Selenium Webdriver.

Cons:

Since this tool is somewhat new in the market compared to Selenium Webdriver, hence, its at times difficult to find solutions if a user is stuck in a problem. However, the KS developers tries their level best to find the suitable solution for you as early as possible.

Reasons for switching to Katalon Studio

I couldn't use it to automate Mobile applications or Backend RestFul APIs. I had to rely on other tools to do those.

Emilio H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed April 2019

A must have tool for any product management team

We have not yet integrated Katalon into our build processes but it has become an obligated step in each testing iteration. No version goes productive without first going through Katalon. This has definitely improved our general quality, and also our QA team now spends more time creating katalon cases than actually hand testing, which is more efficient overall. I would definitely recommend it, but I might add that you might want to start by using Katalon recorder first, before growing into the studio.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best about Katalon is that test cases can be created easily using the visual interface (katalon recorder), but can later be made more powerful using the scripting tools. It's also great to be able to export them and reimport them easily, allowing our team to collaborate adding new test cases with each passing version. We haven't yet integrated katalon with Jenkins, but knowing that its possible is great for us.

Cons:

It took a bit of learning at first, since we used other tools before, but once that was done it's relatively easy to use. The community of users is not that large, but its apparently greowing since users from selenyum are mostly migrating to katalon. We've had some performance issues with it, and some cross browser differences, however, this didn't happen often.

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