Katalon Studio vs Playwright: What are the differences?

Developers describe Katalon Studio as "A free and robust API, Web and Mobile test automation solution with continuous integration". Katalon Studio is a free and robust automation solution for API, Web and Mobile testing. It integrates all necessary components with built-in keywords and project templates into a complete automation framework. Katalon Studio is easy-to-use for new users but still offers advanced capabilities for experienced users. The solution is trusted by an active community of over 150K users from 150+ countries around the world. On the other hand, Playwright is detailed as "Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API (By Microsoft)". It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

Katalon Studio and Playwright can be categorized as "Browser Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Katalon Studio are:

• Productive IDE for API automation
• API testing centric
• Built to work with modern frameworks

On the other hand, Playwright provides the following key features:

• Node library
• Headless supported
• Enables cross-browser web automation

Playwright is an open source tool with 10.9K GitHub stars and 282 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Playwright's open source repository on GitHub.