Kotest
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What both publish
| Fact | Kotest | Pest |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Spring, Koin, Ktor, Allure, Testcontainers, WireMock and Micronaut. | Pest's team-maintained plugins include Faker, Laravel, and Livewire. |
| Support | The project links to community support on Slack, GitHub and Stack Overflow. | Pest's maintainers say they cannot guarantee a fixed bug resolution time or a fix for every issue; bug fixes for outdated versions are available for 12 months after the latest version's release. |
Kotest plans
- KotestFree
Pest plans
- PestFree
Pick Kotest if…
Kotest suits Kotlin projects that need tests across JVM or Kotlin Multiplatform targets. Teams can use its assertions library independently or with another test framework.
Pick Pest if…
Pest suits PHP developers and coding agents, from small personal projects to enterprise applications. Its browser and evaluation tools may be useful to teams testing web interactions or LLM responses.