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Katalon: The Best Selenium Alternative to Optimize Your Test Automation
Elevate efficiency with faster releases, amplified software quality confidence, and a seamless automated testing framework
60%
work hours saved in test creation
2x
web & mobile regression test coverage
80%
reduction in cost associated with test design and maintenance
Katalon vs. Selenium - Which is Better?
Katalon  | Selenium  | |
|---|---|---|
 Capabilities | ||
| Functional Test Automation |  | |
| Pre-built Keyword based Automation Framework | |  |
| Automation: AI Capabilities | | |
| Low-code Mode | | |
| Application Under Test | Web, Desktop. Mobile, API | Web |
| Test Platform: OS Supported |  |  |
| Built-in Visual Testing | | |
 Accessibility | ||
Ease of Installation and Use Install and start trial within just few clicks |  High |  Low |
Ease of Set-up No additional set-up, libraries or custom classes for BDD, DDT, KDT | High | Low |
Ease of Scripting Scripting languages supported and their test creation simplicity |  LowJava, Grovvy |  HighJava, C#, Perl, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP |
Programming Skills Requirement for Technical Knowledge and Experience | Beginner | Advanced |
 Product Update | ||
| Release Frequency | Weekly to Bi-weekly | Monthly to Quarterly |
 Dedicated Support | ||
| FREE version | Forum & Community | Community Support |
| PAID version | Dedicated Onboarding Manager | |
 Built-in Integration | ||
CI/CD Systems eg. Azure DevOps, Github Action, Harness, Circle CI, etc | | |
Bugs Tracking & Test Management ALMs eg. Jira, qTest, TestRail, xRay, etc | | |
Collaboration eg. Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc | | |
 Built-in Report & Analytics | ||
Extensive Reporting Capabilities Able to export to JUnit, HTML or CSV formats | | |
Defect Management Offer a complete presentation on traceability linked to Jira issues | | |
Full feature comparison
Why Katalon is a Better Choice over Selenium
Optimal Plan for Cost Efficiency
Mitigate the hidden costs stemming from onboarding and training initiatives, time to build extensible frameworks, considerable maintenance efforts and the potential for technical debts due to the human-prone errors. View plan
Unified IDE to Test All Apps
Access an exhaustive library of web, mobile, API and desktop keywords in one place, without switching between tools for various types of app types.
Intuitive Low-code Approach
Empower both technical and non-technical members to step into QA roles effortlessly with a wide range of features, like record-and-playback, keyword-driven scripting, etc.
Robust Native Integration
Seamlessly fit into your quality and DevOps ecosystem with 50+ out-of-the-box integrations to CI/CD tools, ALM & Test Management, Collaboration, and more.
Our Users' Voice After their Migration
Anthon T.
Fintech QA Test leader
We've switched from Selenium and grown our test automation department with a non-technical manual QA team. Katalon Studio is allowing our manual testers to contribute to the automation effort, while allowing automation testers to utilize their Java skills.
Dhicy R.
Assistant System Engineer
Katalon Studio is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time compared to Selenium with a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing and more.
Emilio H.
Product Manager
In our build process, no version goes to production without first going through Katalon. This has definitely improved our general quality and our QA team now spends more time creating Katalon cases than actually manual testing, which is more efficient overall.
SUDHEER K
Machine Maintenance Engineer
Best IDE in the market! I have been solving many problems. It has cross browsing features and mainly it runs on Selenium engine so all test scripts are well organized and understandable.
Verified User in Hospitality
Katalon Studio is a better solution than Selenium based open source frameworks. Built on the top of Selenium and Appium, Katalon Studio is a free and powerful automated testing tool for web testing, mobile testing, and API testing.
Rajorshi M.
Quality Engineer
Writing Automation Test Scripts based on Java and Selenium made it easy... Also, compared to Selenium, it is easier to use. There are multiple free tutorials available on the web to learn Katalon Studio. The software itself provides some tutorials to help the users.
Peter K.
Software Engineer
Great codeless test automation tool for creating simple, reusable and maintainable test suites… Writing test in standard Selenium code based tools could be problematic for testers without programming experiences.
Alice B.
Assistant System Engineer
Alternative for Selenium open source built on top of the open-source Selenium and Appium frameworks, the tool allows testing teams to get started with test automation effortlessly and quickly by reducing the effort and knowledge required to learn and integrate these frameworks.
Anthon T.
Fintech QA Test leader
We've switched from Selenium and grown our test automation department with a non-technical manual QA team. Katalon Studio is allowing our manual testers to contribute to the automation effort, while allowing automation testers to utilize their Java skills.
Dhicy R.
Assistant System Engineer
Katalon Studio is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time compared to Selenium with a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing and more.
Emilio H.
Product Manager
In our build process, no version goes to production without first going through Katalon. This has definitely improved our general quality and our QA team now spends more time creating Katalon cases than actually manual testing, which is more efficient overall.
SUDHEER K
Machine Maintenance Engineer
Best IDE in the market! I have been solving many problems. It has cross browsing features and mainly it runs on Selenium engine so all test scripts are well organized and understandable.
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