How much does Katalon cost?
Paid plans start at
$83.33/mo billed yearly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial, no credit card required
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from katalon.com/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. Free Studio: author and run tests locally, record and playback, local execution; no AI generation, parallel runs, self-healing, CI/CD or cloud execution
Watch out for
- Their pages disagree: community size. "tap into our 80,000-member global community" vs "Katalon's community empowers over 120,000 testing professionals worldw"
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Buy now, Start free trial, Book a demo, Talk to sales
- Sign up
- Self-serve free trial and online purchase of Professional "Start free trial"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise requires talking to sales "Talk to sales"
- Support
- 24/5 ticket system on Professional and Enterprise "24/5 ticket system"
- Support
- Premium support with SLA on Enterprise "Premium support with SLA"
What Katalon does
Katalon True combines Katalon Studio for authoring web, mobile, API and desktop tests, TestOps for test management, TestCloud for parallel execution on real browsers and devices, and TrueTest for generating tests from real user sessions. Katalon AI generates test cases, heals locators and explains failures, and an MCP server lets outside coding agents drive Studio.
- Good for
- Mixed-skill QA teams that want web, mobile, API and desktop test automation, test management and cloud execution in one platform, including enterprises needing SSO, on-prem deployment and compliance.
- Channels
- Web, Mobile (Android and iOS), API, Desktop (Windows)
- Main product
- Katalon True (Katalon Studio, TestOps, TestCloud, TrueTest)
- Also includes
- Katalon Studio test authoring for web, mobile, API and desktop, TestOps test management, TestCloud parallel execution on real browsers and devices, TrueTest production insights and test generation, Katalon AI agents (test generation, self-healing, failure analysis), Katalon MCP server
- Connects to
- Jira, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, Slack, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, qTest, TestRail, TestLink, Rally
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Natural-language test authoring
Katalon Studio AI agents generate scripts from natural language, explain scripts and fix failures
- Self-healing tests
Studio retries alternative locators automatically when the UI changes
- Web app testing
Web, API, mobile testing
- Native mobile testing
Test your Android and iOS apps across browsers, devices and operating systems.
- API testing
Streamline testing for any API architecture, and unify API, web and mobile testing in one platform.
- Visual regression testingNot stated
- CI/CD integrations
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab
- Parallel cloud execution
Run suites in parallel on real browsers, devices and your own CI runners.
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "backed by a current SOC 2 Type II attestation"home |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Certified | "Certified to protect your data and systems."enterprise |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise plan (SSO / SAML and SCIM) | "SSO / SAML and SCIM user provisioning"pricing |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional (Katalon Studio, , promo first 3 seats)/ seat / year | – | $83.33per month | 1 users | – | "$1,000/ seat / year" |
| Professional (Katalon Studio, list price)/ seat / year | – | $183per month | 1 users | – | "~~$2,199~~Save 55%" |
| Free (Katalon Studio) | – | – | – | – | "Author and run tests locally" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Annual contract, tailored to your seats, deployment and compliance needs" |
Their pages disagree: community size"tap into our 80,000-member global community" vs "Katalon's community empowers over 120,000 testing professionals worldwide"
Free plan: Free Studio: author and run tests locally, record and playback, local execution; no AI generation, parallel runs, self-healing, CI/CD or cloud execution
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Enterprise is an annual contract "Annual contract, tailored to your seats, deployment and compliance needs"
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Katalon, Inc.
- Address
- 1720 Peachtree Street NW, Suite 870, Atlanta, GA 30309
- Online since
- Jun 5, 2015 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 23 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 22, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "Trusted by 30,000+ quality teams" their claim
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Questions
Is Katalon free?
Yes. Free Studio: author and run tests locally, record and playback, local execution; no AI generation, parallel runs, self-healing, CI/CD or cloud execution
How much does Katalon cost?
Paid plans start at $83.33 per month billed yearly.