Our take
Pick Cypress if you're on a team who will stay on the MIT App + Cloud Starter (500 results / month) while they Replay a first failed heroes.cy.ts, then Team at $67/month ($799/year) when they need flake analytics — not Business $267 first unless they need SSO and spec prioritization. Pick Katalon if you're on a qA team who will stay on Free locally or buy a yearly Studio seat. Skip Katalon if you're a developer who
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Cypress Browser tests you start at a public $
Katalon One desktop studio for mixed UI + API tests with a public yearly seat
Free plan
Cypress $0 · ), MIT. Local / CI without --record
Katalon $0 · author and run locally; record & playback; basic web/mobile
Lowest paid
Cypress Cloud Team $67/mo
Katalon Professional $1
Next step up
Cypress Cloud Business $267/mo
Katalon
Coding agent
Cypress
Katalon Studio AI agents
Watch out
Cypress Cloud Starter caps recorded results at 500 / month
Katalon Free has no Studio AI agents or parallel suites
Last checked
Cypress 2026-10-23 · cypress.io/pricing
Katalon 2026-10-28 · katalon.com/pricing
teams who will stay on the MIT App + Cloud Starter (500 results / month) while they Replay a first failed heroes.cy.ts, then Team at $67/month ($799/year) when they need flake analytics — not Business $267 first unless they need SSO and spec prioritization.
Read the Cypress pageqA teams who will stay on Free locally or buy a yearly Studio seat.
Read the Katalon page
