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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Katalon

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AKatalon Studio is provided by the vendor as a free and robust automation solution for API, Web and Mobile testing. It is designed to eliminate the complexities of building an automation framework by integrating all necessary test components with built-in keywords and project templates. Katalon Studio includes a full feature set for a complete test automation process covering multiple platforms and testing types. New users can get started with test automation using its easy-to-use…

    $69

    per month

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

    $849

    per month billed annually

    Pricing
    KatalonNGINX Plus
    Editions & Modules
    Node Locked License
    $69.00
    per month
    Floating License
    $1,529.00
    per year
    Team
    $849
    per month billed annually
    Advanced
    $2,099
    per month billed annually
    Enterprise
    Tiered Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KatalonNGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsKatalon Studio was originated from KMS Technology R&D. It has been a successful solution for numerous automation projects ranging from small team to enterprise client. Katalon Studio is free for use, product development is funded by the testing services provided by KMS Technology. To support future releases, please consider subscribing to our business support services.—
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    KatalonNGINX Plus
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    Katalon Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    KatalonNGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Katalon and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    Katalon
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    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    KatalonNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (11 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    KatalonNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Katalon Inc
    Katalon TestOps is well suited for an oraganization who want to organize their automation collections and have everything in one place. It provides good insight on test runs, failures and also helps in defect tracking. It is extremely easy to schedule and run test suites automatically. With the help of test history, it becomes easier to triage the report and identify if it is a product issue or a test flakiness. Also with the automation run scheduling features with custom options, user do not have to manually trigger the runs and just run the scheduler to do the job.
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    F5
    Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
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    Pros
    Katalon Inc
    • Easy to setup and quick to get started: As Katalon comes with built-in features a new automation tester can automate easily. Script creation time is quick.
    • Test Analytics: Katalon also provides analytics which tells you the pattern of your automated tests at a different instance of time.
    • Third Party Integration: Katalon provides amazing integration with 3rd party tools like JIRA, ALM, GIT, JENKINS, etc.
    • Image-based testing: Katalon also provides inbuilt image based test automation.
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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    Cons
    Katalon Inc
    • Integration with Azure is painstakingly slow as it takes too much time to upload reports to Azure. When raised with the support team i was advised to contact Microsoft who promptly and correctly replied that its an issue with the katalon plugin.
    • Non Responsive Customer Support. Several mails were replied late.
    • The Desktop app uses too much memory when booting up and running tests even on a 16gb RAM.
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    F5
    • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
    • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
    • GUI tool... might already be one available
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Katalon Inc
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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    Usability
    Katalon Inc
    Due to the slowness, there is an intermediate timeout. There is no other problem.
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    F5
    Very easy to use
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    Support Rating
    Katalon Inc
    I love the support. They have provided answers and solutions for most of our questions or doubts that could come up. They also have provided basic tutorials on how to get familiarized with the program.
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    F5
    We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Katalon Inc
    Katalon Studio is above both the tools is due to its codeless test automation feature and having API, desktop, web, and mobile automation in one place but obviously there is room for improvement when desktop automation is of primary importance in the automation.
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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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    Return on Investment
    Katalon Inc
    • Support can be better: As mentioned before, katlon community is still growing but is currently a small community. If you are stuck, its hard to find help in the community and one has to reach out to the support for help. This takes a while before you can get solution to your problem.
    • Result upload takes little longer time: It is been observed that uploading tests results takes little longer.
    • Sometimes it gets hard to integrate: Since this is fairly a new tool, requires lot of learning curve to get the job done effectively.
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    F5
    • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
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    ScreenShots

    Katalon Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project setup - fast start with pre-built templates and scriptsScreenshot of Run Single Tests or Suites on multiple configurations and data sets
Multiple Platform Support so you can run your automation tests on Windows, OSX, Android, and iOSScreenshot of Maintain TestsScreenshot of View Reports