Karate
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Karate, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Karate's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | MIT framework · REST/GraphQL/SOAP API tests · browser/desktop UI · Gatling performance · mocks/stubs · CI/CD · Xplorer free tier · community support · forever |
| IDE Plus | $100 a year | Syntax highlighting · run from IDE · structure view · formatting · per user / year |
| Xplorer Premium | $200 a year | Premium Xplorer desktop API client · per user / year |
| Pro | $640 a year | Free features · IntelliJ and VS Code plugins · debugging · autocomplete · code folding · references · Xplorer Premium · Kafka/gRPC/WebSocket authoring · priority email support · per user / year |
| Karate Enterprise | Priced on request | Async Protocol Pack · enterprise IDE licensing/SSO · Karate Agent · API Coverage · API Governance · commercial support and SLA · commercial license · annual |
The facts
Each one read from Karate's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI agent
- Karate Agent authors tests in natural language, drives browsers, supports MCP and can use customer-selected LLMs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API and SDK extensibility
- Karate provides Java and JavaScript interoperability, plus a Java API and CLI, so custom libraries can be called from tests.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API coverage
- Enterprise API Coverage links requirements to tests and grades exercised coverage against claimed coverage.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API governance
- Enterprise governance includes OpenAPI linting and deterministic READY, CONDITIONAL or NOT-READY ship verdicts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API testing
- The framework tests REST, GraphQL and SOAP with JSON/XML assertions, schema validation and data-driven scenarios.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Business rules testing
- Enterprise features let teams express business rules as executable decision tables with requirement IDs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CI/CD integrations
- Documented CI and build integrations include Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Testcontainers and npm.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud integrations
- Official integration examples cover AWS, Google Cloud and Azure execution environments.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Contract testing
- Karate can run the same suite against a mock and a provider to identify contract disagreements.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Documentation covers installation, CLI, Maven, Gradle, standalone JAR, syntax, HTTP, assertions, parallel execution, Java API, databases, WebSocket, MQ, UI and performance testing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations directory lists more than 40 native integrations and more than 15 protocols or formats.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License
- The core Karate framework is MIT licensed and free forever; enterprise components use a commercial license.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 reporting
- A G2 reviewer requests more customizable default reporting.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mocks and stubs
- Feature files can create stateful, thread-safe local service mocks for HTTP, gRPC and message queues.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mutation testing
- Karate advertises API mutation testing that perturbs provider behavior and scores which assertions detect the changes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- News: Gartner recognition
- Gartner Peer Insights identifies Karate in its API and MCP Testing Tools market; the product information was updated 10 March 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Karate Labs Inc. was co-founded in November 2021 by Peter Thomas and Kapil Bakshi.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Company founding
- LinkedIn lists the company as founded in 2021.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Karate Labs as a privately held software company with 2–10 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2021checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- LinkedIn lists headquarters as Worldwide, United States, with locations shown in Sugar Land, London and Bengaluru.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Limit: G2 price
- A G2 reviewer says paid Karate can be expensive compared with cheaper or free alternatives such as Playwright.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: GetApp DSL constraints
- Reviewers say the DSL can feel restrictive for advanced users and that cross-CI reporting may require custom work.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: GetApp error messages
- A reviewer reports that JavaScript-engine error messages can be ambiguous and difficult to decipher.checked 15 Oct 2026
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