Compare the Top API Testing Tools as of October 2026

What are API Testing Tools?

API testing software is used to test and validate the functionality, performance, security, and reliability of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These tools help ensure that APIs perform as expected under various conditions and meet the required business and technical requirements. Features typically include automated testing, request/response validation, load testing, security testing (e.g., for vulnerabilities and authentication), and performance testing. API testing software often supports integration with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to facilitate automated testing as part of the software development lifecycle. Compare and read user reviews of the best API Testing tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Parasoft

    Parasoft

    Parasoft

    "Parasoft delivers an AI‑powered software testing platform that helps organizations continuously release high‑quality software. Our solutions support embedded and enterprise teams by integrating code analysis, testing, virtualization, and coverage into the delivery pipeline to improve security, reliability, and compliance while reducing cost and effort. Parasoft C/C++test provides static analysis, unit testing, code coverage, and requirements traceability for C and C++ applications. It integrates with Eclipse and Visual Studio, supports CI/CD automation, and is TÜV‑certified for safety‑ and security‑critical systems. Parasoft C/C++test CT is a scalable, compliance‑ready solution for C and C++ teams. It integrates into CI/CD workflows, supports open‑source unit testing frameworks, containers, VS Code, Bazel build systems, eliminates IDE dependencies, and is TÜV‑certified for safety‑ and security‑critical development."
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    Starting Price: $35/user/mo
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    Checksum.ai

    Checksum.ai

    Checksum.ai

    Checksum is a continuous quality platform that autonomously generates, runs, and maintains tests so engineering teams can ship AI-generated code without trading speed for reliability. Unlike copilots that wait for prompts, Checksum works as a background agent, detecting what needs testing, generating production-ready Playwright, and healing broken tests automatically. Seventy percent of failures resolve autonomously, keeping suites green without manual effort. Built on fine-tuned data from 1.5+ million test runs, Checksum covers every layer of the SDLC: end-to-end, API, and CI testing from a single platform. Tests are delivered as standard Playwright code, submitted as a PR to your repo. No vendor lock-in. Checksum integrates natively with Cursor, Claude Code, and 100+ coding agents via /checksum slash commands, so code is tested before a human ever reviews it. AI handles generation and healing on Checksum's cloud: no LLM tokens. The result: ship faster, with confidence.
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    Virtuoso QA

    Virtuoso QA

    Virtuoso QA

    Virtuoso QA is an enterprise agentic test automation platform setting the standard of proof for software releases. As AI accelerates how software is built, Virtuoso QA helps organisations release with confidence through governed, agentic automation for functional, regression and end-to-end testing across any browser-based application, from Dynamics 365, Salesforce and SAP to Guidewire and custom-built systems. Virtuoso QA turns requirements, designs, live applications or existing suites into executable journeys. Through Touchstone, its agentic layer, brings in 30+ specialised agents to do the work, grounded in your sources and standards. The Analyst turns documentation into source-cited test requirements, the Architect designs the journeys that prove them, and Autopilot builds each one. Your team reviews and approves each stage, so nothing enters the suite on trust. Tests run on a deterministic engine within existing CI/CD pipelines, and self-healing fixes are proposed as reviewable diffs, keeping test suites current without manual rework. Every release is backed by evidence of what was tested, what changed and who approved it. That is why organisations in financial services, insurance, healthcare and the public sector trust Virtuoso QA where releases carry consequences.
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    MuukTest

    MuukTest

    MuukTest

    Are bugs slipping through your QA process and frustrating your customers? Catching issues early shouldn’t mean overwhelming your team with time-consuming tests. With MuukTest’s AI-driven platform, growing engineering teams reach 95% end-to-end test coverage in just 3 months, delivering quality at speed. By leveraging AI, our QA experts rapidly design, manage, and maintain comprehensive E2E tests for web, mobile, and API applications on the MuukTest platform. Within 8 weeks, we deliver full regression coverage, followed by exploratory and negative testing to uncover hidden bugs and expand test scenarios. We also proactively identify and address flaky tests and false results to ensure the reliability of your tests. Testing early and often allows you to detect bugs in the early stages of your development lifecycle, reducing the burden of technical debt down the line.
    Starting Price: $6000 per month
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    Testim

    Testim

    Tricentis

    Testim is the fastest path to resilient end-to-end tests—codeless, coded or both. Testim lets you create amazingly stable codeless tests that leverage our AI, but also the flexibility to export tests as code. You can leverage Testim’s modern JavaScript API and your IDE to debug, customize or refactor tests. Store them in your version control system to keep them in sync with branches and run tests on every commit. Run parallel, cross-browser tests on our test cloud or Selenium-compatible grids while integrating with your CI and dev tools to run smoke tests on pull requests, end-to-end tests on release candidates, or full regression suites on a schedule. Customers like Microsoft, Salesforce, NetApp, Wix, and JFrog run millions of tests on Testim each month. Learn more on our website and sign up for your free account!
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    Starting Price: $20,000 a year
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    Boozang

    Boozang

    Boozang

    Build. Test. Automate. Empower your whole team to build and maintain automated tests, not just developers. Meet your testing demands fast. Get full test coverage in days, not months. Our natural-language tests are extremely stable to code changes. When tests break our AI will repair it in minutes. Go Agile/DevOps by setting up Continuous Testing. Push features in production the same day. Boozang supports the following test approaches: - Codeless Record/Replay interface - BDD / Cucumber - API testing - Model-based testing - HTML Canvas testing The following features makes your testing a breeze - In-browser console debugging - Screenshots to show where test fails - Integrate to any CI server - Test with unlimited parallel workers to speed up tests - Root-cause analysis reports - Trend reports to track failures and performance over time - Test management integration (Xray / Jira)
    Starting Price: $249 USD / month / user
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    Cerberus Testing

    Cerberus Testing

    Cerberus Testing

    Cerberus Testing is a low-code software testing automation enabling continuous testing at scale. Using the solution you can remove years of implementing an internal testing framework. The product enables you to quickly iterate through your testing lifecycle, from test repository, execution, reporting and analytics. The solution allows the collaboration of the teams from the use-cases definition to the test case execution on the variety of browsers, devices, apps and APIs. You can leverage your own or external robots infrastructure to execute your test at scale, enabling you to focus on your business value. It supports various integrations for speed of implementation such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Slack, Kafka. It is available and maintained in open-source by various digital and retail players such as La Redoute, Decathlon, Adeo, and Norauto.
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    Starting Price: €0
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    QATTS

    QATTS

    QATTS

    QATTS is the industry’s most comprehensive end-to-end cloud-based test automation solutions provider. We vouch for the superior quality of your entrusted products and software applications with our ready to use and customized automation testing solutions. We are a crew of skilled QA analysts, automation test engineers, and other IT professionals who work hand-in-hand to deliver reliable services and real-time outcomes on time and every time. Our QA experts are specialized in both manual and automation testing. They are adept at implementing modern web, desktop, and mobile technologies and various testing tools. Profound knowledge of automation and its trends made us a one-stop destination for all test automation needs. RESTful & SOAP-based web services. IBM, Attachmate & Hummingbird emulators.
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    Starting Price: $19/month/user
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    Testsigma

    Testsigma

    Testsigma

    Testsigma is an AI-native quality intelligence platform that gives QA and engineering leaders the evidence to answer that question. It compares test coverage against what is actually being built and produces a release confidence score with known confidence bounds. When gaps are found, Testsigma closes the loop: AI agents generate the missing tests, run them with self-healing, diagnose failures, and file complete bug reports. For teams that need comprehensive test execution, Testsigma supports web, mobile, API, and Salesforce testing with cross-browser and cross-device execution at scale on real devices. Testsigma serves mid-market and enterprise engineering teams across financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, public sector, and technology. Recognized by Gartner in the Market Guide for AI-Augmented Enterprise Application Testing Tools and by Forrester in the Autonomous Testing Platforms Landscape.
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    SoapUI

    SoapUI

    SmartBear

    Whether open source or commercial, SoapUI testing tools make it easy to create, manage, and execute end-to-end tests on REST, SOAP, & GraphQL APIs, JMS, JDBC, and other web services so you can deliver software faster than ever. For developers and testers looking to accelerate their ability to deliver REST & SOAP APIs, SoapUI Open Source is the simplest and easiest way to begin your API testing journey. Automate and fit API testing into your team’s continuous delivery pipeline with the next generation tool built for validation of REST, SOAP, GraphQL, microservices, and other back-end services. APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, have become the center of software development, connecting and transferring data and logic across disparate systems and applications. Luckily, testing them can greatly improve the efficiency of your testing strategy as a whole, helping you deliver software faster than ever
    Starting Price: $599 per year
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    T-Plan Robot
    T-Plan Robot automates scripted user actions for Test Automation or Robotic Process Automation (RPA) on Mac, Windows Linux & Mobile. T-Plan develops and sells two main toolsets. 1) Test Automation and 2) Robotic Process Automation (RPA). T-Plan Robot is a highly flexible, easy to use, image-based black box GUI automation tool that creates robust automated scripts and exercises applications in the same way as would an end-user. T-Plan Robot is platform-independent (Java) and runs on, and automates all major systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix plus mobile platforms. We believe we have a solution for any environment. GUI automation interacts with your business sponsor and development teams throughout the whole project lifecycle. Working intuitively at the screen level business analysts can help testers drive testable paths through the application, whilst at the same time combining with the development team to define repeatable actions to test code in continuous development.
    Starting Price: $400/month/user
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    Xano

    Xano

    Xano

    Xano is the unified backend for building and deploying production-grade apps and AI agents. Instead of stitching together databases, runtimes, APIs, auth, integrations, and monitoring—plus a separate orchestrator for agents—Xano provides everything in one secure, scalable platform. Teams can model data, compose logic, expose secure APIs, and integrate with any system, while AI agents can use data and APIs, call external tools, and run server-side with observability and guardrails. Build visually, with AI, or in code from your IDE, then deploy with one click and scale automatically. Xano works with any frontend, including Lovable, Bolt, WeWeb, Retool, and custom code, so you don’t need to rebuild as you grow. Compliance, reliability, and scaling are built-in, enabling teams to focus on the business logic that makes their software unique.
    Starting Price: Free
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    TAST

    TAST

    SIPSA

    TAST, Test Automation System Tool is a comprehensive cloud test automation framework that enables businesses to maximize their test automation across the complete testing process from an End User´s perspective. It is easy to use and its graphical interface defines the automated test cases across technological platforms. TAST automates: *Cross Browser testing *Mobile testing *Desktop applications testing *DDBB testing: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2. *File testing: txt, pdf, word, excel, csv, xml. *Mainframe testing: AS400, Host *APIs testing *Interface testing. *Remote Server testing. Types of tests you can automate with TAST: *Integration *Functional *System: Regressive, stress, load, parallel *Acceptance *A/B.
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    ZAPTEST

    ZAPTEST

    ZAPTEST Inc.

    ZAPTEST is a leading Free and Enterprise software test automation and RPA tool. Offerings include Computer Vision technology that allows for Cross-Platform digital interface automation for UI, API, Load testing, and RPA in a seamless process. Combine that with our 1SCRIPT methodology, seamless automation, parallel execution, and unlimited licenses– you get an efficient testing suite that generates up to 10X ROI. We promise that if you can perform a procedure via any digital interface (live application or mockup) manually, ZAPTEST can automate this procedure As-Is! With ZAPTEST’s Enterprise Solution subscription program, you receive unlimited licenses across the entire organization. Regardless of whether your automation needs increase, your cost remains fixed. FARM allows ZAPTEST users to manage all of their devices so you can remotely control cross-environments and projects from any location. ZAPTEST uses many practical applications to enhance its software testing software capabilities
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    Fiddler

    Fiddler

    Progress Software

    Capture all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet with Telerik Fiddler HTTP(S) proxy. Inspect traffic, set breakpoints, and fiddle with requests & responses. Fiddler Everywhere is a web debugging proxy for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Capture, inspect, monitor all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet, mock requests, and diagnose network issues. Fiddler Everywhere can be used for any browser, application, process. Debug traffic from macOS, Windows, or Linux systems and iOS or Android mobile devices. Ensure the proper cookies, headers, and cache directives are transferred between the client and server. Supports any framework, including .NET, Java, Ruby, etc. Mock or modify requests and responses on any website. It’s a quick and easy way to change the request and responses to test websites without changing code. Use Fiddler Everywhere to log all HTTP/S traffic between your computer and the Internet.
    Starting Price: $12 per user per month
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience
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    Tricentis Tosca
    No-code, Automated Continuous Testing. Tricentis Tosca, the #1 Continuous Testing platform, accelerates testing with a script-less, no-code approach for end-to-end test automation. With support for over 160+ technologies and enterprise applications, Tosca provides resilient test automation for any use case. Learn how Tricentis Tosca can help you: - Deliver fast feedback for Agile and DevOps - Reduce regression testing time to minutes - Maximize reuse and maintainability - Gain clear insight into business risk - Integrate and extend existing test assets (HPE UFT, Selenium, SoapUI…)
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    Alithya GoTest
    Alithya GoTest is a collaborative test hub that is easy and quick to master and integrate, ensuring the quality of any professional digital solutions for companies requiring reliability without compromises. Ensure the quality of your application without sacrificing speed or agility with an easy-to-use, GUI test automation tool. Whether using scripts or not, our flexibility is unmatched, letting you create manual, automated or hybrid test suites for every desktop, web, and mobile application with ease including .Net, Java, WPF and Windows 10, modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular and iOS or Andoid with 2050+ browser and platform configurations. No need to jailbreak your devices. Alithya GoTest comes with a keyword library of over 1500 keywords, so you can ensure your GUI and API tests are scalable, robust, and easy to maintain. Alithya also offers consulting, coaching and training to ensure the success of your teams.
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    OpenText Functional Testing
    OpenText Functional Testing is an AI-powered automation tool that accelerates functional and regression testing across a wide range of enterprise applications. It supports testing for desktop, web, mobile, mainframe, composite, and packaged apps, covering both UI and API layers. The platform leverages AI-based machine learning and advanced OCR for robust object recognition and natural language scripting. It enables cross-browser testing by allowing scripts to run seamlessly across multiple browser types and versions. Parallel testing capabilities speed up execution by running multiple tests simultaneously and integrating with CI/CD pipelines. OpenText Functional Testing promotes collaboration through reusable actions and supports a fully integrated DevOps toolchain.
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    vStellar

    vStellar

    vStellar

    vStellar is a low-code, AI-powered software testing framework that simplifies automation for QA teams, developers, and enterprises. It enables effortless UI, API, and mobile testing within a unified environment, helping teams deliver accurate, consistent, and scalable results. Built for modern development pipelines, vStellar integrates seamlessly with IntelliJ IDEA, CI/CD tools, and version control systems to support end-to-end automation workflows. Its intuitive plugin and parallel testing capabilities reduce setup time while increasing efficiency across test execution. QA engineers can validate visual interfaces, endpoints, and performance metrics all within one framework. Trusted by global teams, vStellar empowers organizations to test smarter, deliver faster, and maintain the highest quality standards in every release.
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    HttpMaster
    HttpMaster is a debugging and testing tool for various HTTP applications with special focus on web APIs and RESTful web services. Key features: - HttpMaster project to store complete definition of HTTP calls in one single place. - Broad set of HTTP properties (HTTP headers, URL encoding, etc.). - Dynamic parameters to simulate variations of input data or create global API values. - Response data validation with logical expressions. - Request chaining to use data from previous request with the next request. - Extensive data upload support, including 'multipart/form-data'. - Request data builder for creating request body with an optional dynamic parameters. - Request item execution with detailed progress monitoring. - Execution groups to create batches of requests. - Comprehensive execution data review and management. - Basic request tool for ad-hoc execution. - Command line interface. - PDF reports. - Support for cURL commands.
    Starting Price: Starting from $69
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    SyncTree

    SyncTree

    Ntuple

    SyncTree strives to be a "Super Connecting Platform" that can easily connect any services you want. With SyncTree, which consists of SyncTree STUDIO, a solution for building backend business logic with block coding, and Block Store, a platform for buying and selling pre-made backend function blocks like App Store, you can organically utilize data and connect services to achieve unlimited service expansion. Based on aPaaS, Block Store provides APIs from various services such as ChatGPT, DALLE, YouTube, etc. in the form of 'backend function blocks', which you can subscribe to and then combine as you want quickly in SyncTree STUDIO to build your business logic. SyncTree is for everyone, whether you're an individual or a business, and you can subscribe and use it according to your needs, from the free version to the PRO version.
    Starting Price: Free/1Month/3,000 Call
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle is a federated API Intelligence platform built for enterprises that need full visibility, control, and security over their APIs. With a single integration, Treblle provides real-time API Discovery, Observability, Analytics, Governance, Runtime Security, and Developer Portals. It supports on-prem and private cloud deployments to meet strict compliance and data privacy requirements. Treblle helps teams shift left by surfacing API issues early in development and ensuring consistency across environments. Its AI-powered Integration Assistant simplifies onboarding and reduces manual effort. Trusted by global enterprises and recognized over 15 times by Gartner, Treblle accelerates innovation while giving you complete control over your API landscape.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    Speedscale

    Speedscale

    Speedscale

    AI bug repair from real production traffic, run entirely in your cloud. Speedscale captures HTTP, gRPC, and SQL traffic via eBPF inside your Kubernetes cluster. Production payloads never leave your perimeter. When a failure occurs: the capture agent records the exact request, a triage agent classifies it, a reproduction agent replays it against your codebase, and a validation agent verifies the fix before the PR opens. Fully autonomous or human-gated. You supply the cloud, storage, and AI models (Anthropic, Llama, or your own). Speedscale orchestrates the loop with no cloud, model, or storage lock-in. proxymock: free CLI giving AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) real production context via MCP. No signup required. Meets PCI and HIPAA data-residency requirements. Used by Home Depot, IHG, FLYR, Cimpress/Vistaprint, Navitaire, and Ascension Health.
    Starting Price: $0
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    ACCELQ

    ACCELQ

    ACCELQ

    ACCELQ is a codeless, agentic AI testing platform that supports web, mobile, API, desktop, and packaged applications, including SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Workday, MS Dynamics, nCino, Coupa, and ServiceNow. Its Autopilot brings together a set of AI agents that can explore an application, create and execute tests, investigate failures, make the required fixes, and rerun tests automatically. Test automation can be created in plain English, without relying on traditional scripting. Self-healing locators and Anchor Elements also help keep tests reliable when the application changes. ACCELQ was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Autonomous Testing Platforms, Q4 2025. It received the highest Current Offering score and was the only vendor recognized as a Customer Favorite in the evaluation. ACCELQ also received the 2025 AI Breakthrough Award. Customers have reported 7.5x faster automation development, 72% less test maintenance, and a 53% reduction in costs compared with scripted testing.
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    Assertible

    Assertible

    Assertible

    The easiest way to test and monitor your web services. Gain confidence in critical infrastructure by using Assertible's automated QA tools to test and monitor your web services across deployments and environments. Assertible provides a reliable first line of defense against web service failures by providing simple and powerful assertions to test and monitor your APIs and websites. Lower the number of false positives in your automated QA tests and be confident your APIs are healthy. Keeping your tests up to date can be a burden, but with Assertible you can automatically sync your API tests with the latest changes in your specification. As you add and update responses, parameters, headers, and more, updating your Assertible API tests is as easy as clicking sync. Assertible integrates with the tools you're already using and lets you do things like execute your web app tests when you push code to GitHub, or send alerts to Slack if failures happen.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    BlazeMeter

    BlazeMeter

    BlazeMeter

    BlazeMeter’s open-source based, enterprise ready platform unifies all the functionality you need to shift testing left - and right. Use our intuitive UI to create tests or reuse your existing scripts and run them at scale as part of your continuous testing strategy. Test and generate detailed reporting and see historic trends. Spend more time innovating & less time maintaining your toolchain. Continuous testing is key to delivering with quality, volume, and velocity. But integrating, maintaining, learning and switching between multiple tools wastes valuable time and resources. BlazeMeter makes it easy with a super intuitive platform that does it all. BlazeMeter delivers complete shift left testing, so you can wow the marketplace with innovation. BlazeMeter provides all the components you need for shift left continuous testing. Work with CLIs, APIs, UI, open source tools, and more. Save HUGE time with setup, maintenance, learning, and day to day use.
    Starting Price: $149 per month
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    Checkly

    Checkly

    Pink Robots

    Monitor the status and performance of your API endpoints & vital site transactions from a single, simple dashboard. Checkly is an active reliability platform that brings together the best of end-to-end testing and active monitoring to serve modern, cross-functional DevOps teams. With a focus on JavaScript-based Open Source tech stacks, Checkly is easy to get started with and seamlessly integrates into your development workflow. Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. Monitor and validate your crucial site transactions. Take screenshots and get instant insights into what's working and what's not. Coding browser click-flows used to be hard. Not anymore. Use modern open source frameworks like Playwright and Puppeteer to automate your flows. Run your checks in 20 locations worldwide. Make sure your APIs always responds quickly and with the correct payload.
    Starting Price: $0.80 /10k API check runs
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    Tigmat

    Tigmat

    Tigmat

    Tigmat is a test automation tool, that allows you to record your tests and run them without having to write a single line of code. Tigmat supports Web, Android, Android Web, and API applications. Providing you with both a Web Recorder and an Android Recorder. By using these tools you don’t have to bother with code, even though you can change anything manually. Test Execution is supported on more than 60 Real Android Devices, Windows, Linux, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge for the best coverage. The best thing is there is a free plan, you simply sign up and can use all features to decide if Tigmat works for you. Every test execution is recorded as a video you can watch. CICD integration and user management are some of the many features provided. Try Tigmat now and discover how our tool can help you achieve your goals.
    Starting Price: €199 per month
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