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Karate

byKarate Labs
in API and MCP Testing Tools
4.7

Overview

Product Information on Karate

Updated 10th March 2026

What is Karate?

Karate is a software designed for API test automation, performance testing, and mocking. The software enables users to write tests in a simple and readable syntax without requiring advanced programming knowledge. Karate supports various protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, and GraphQL, and offers capabilities for defining request and response payloads, validating content, and running tests in parallel for efficient execution. The software also includes features for integrating with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, generating test reports, and virtualizing services to simulate dependency behavior. Karate aims to address the business need for reliable and repeatable automated testing of APIs and services, facilitating quality assurance and faster development cycles.

Karate Pricing

Karate software utilizes an open-source pricing model with optional paid licenses for advanced features, enterprise support, and commercial use. The software is available for free under the open-source license, while enterprise customers can access additional functionalities and services through commercial licensing arrangements.

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“Enabling End-To-End Testing Across Multiple Platforms With Karate's Flexible Framework”

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Company Description

Updated 5th March 2026

Karate is an open-source software framework that addresses multiple aspects of test automation. It provides functionality for API test automation, mocking, performance testing, and UI automation within the same framework. The main focus of Karate is to enable development and quality assurance teams to automate testing processes across different layers and types of software, reducing the need for separate tools for each testing purpose and streamlining workflows.

Company Details

Updated 5th March 2026
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2021
Head office location
Worldwide, United States
Number of employees
2 - 10
Website
https://karatelabs.io

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Karate Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(6 Ratings)

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  • Software Development Manager
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Enabling End-To-End Testing Across Multiple Platforms With Karate's Flexible Framework

    5.0
    Apr 6, 2026
    Over the years I've checked in a lot of enterprise automation sofware, so I really know the pain of these closed systems. I've been a Karate user for the past 4 years, and in that time I've gone from a simple PoC test of Karate as an automation testing tool, to a full blown testing framework. With it, I can test securely impossible end2end flows, featuring API, Website and even database and mobile app testings. The unique feature of Karate is the call feature - you can basically test anything from anywhere and inline all your tests into a sophisticated real world logical real user scenarios. And not to be ignored, Karate's own Domain Specific Language is something with which I was able to train completely unexperienced manual QA's into real QA automation engineers. I found that it was the easiest transition for people who had never seen or used code in their lives, and that was a real game-changer. My Karate enabled team was able to end2end test from scratch a whole complicated business process, which took weeks to test manually - at the end the whole process was executed daily, on-demand or CI/CD launched in minutes, via a completely autonomic docker executions! Due to Karate's simplistic and simple DSL, I found that it is crazy good to plug any AI bot into your process, completely shifting from simple automation to AI agentic execution/live repair of your test with the power of any AI bot, which makes it future proof for any new AI endeavours. And as a final - everything Karate is an on-premise (with deployments on own cloud where needed), making it the most secure enterprise simple and logical choice.
  • Software Development Manager
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Enabling End-To-End Testing Across Multiple Platforms With Karate's Flexible Framework

    5.0
    Apr 6, 2026
    Over the years I've checked in a lot of enterprise automation sofware, so I really know the pain of these closed systems. I've been a Karate user for the past 4 years, and in that time I've gone from a simple PoC test of Karate as an automation testing tool, to a full blown testing framework. With it, I can test securely impossible end2end flows, featuring API, Website and even database and mobile app testings. The unique feature of Karate is the call feature - you can basically test anything from anywhere and inline all your tests into a sophisticated real world logical real user scenarios. And not to be ignored, Karate's own Domain Specific Language is something with which I was able to train completely unexperienced manual QA's into real QA automation engineers. I found that it was the easiest transition for people who had never seen or used code in their lives, and that was a real game-changer. My Karate enabled team was able to end2end test from scratch a whole complicated business process, which took weeks to test manually - at the end the whole process was executed daily, on-demand or CI/CD launched in minutes, via a completely autonomic docker executions! Due to Karate's simplistic and simple DSL, I found that it is crazy good to plug any AI bot into your process, completely shifting from simple automation to AI agentic execution/live repair of your test with the power of any AI bot, which makes it future proof for any new AI endeavours. And as a final - everything Karate is an on-premise (with deployments on own cloud where needed), making it the most secure enterprise simple and logical choice.
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Karate Likes & Dislikes

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- Its own syntax, while you can use the power of JavaScript and even Java for sophisticated cases - Docker/CLI native/runner equipped, which effectively means you ust need a terminal and the karate jar file to unleash all your tests into any environment - Karate call - combine web, api, database, app tests into just one simple automation framework

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- Its own syntax, while you can use the power of JavaScript and even Java for sophisticated cases - Docker/CLI native/runner equipped, which effectively means you ust need a terminal and the karate jar file to unleash all your tests into any environment - Karate call - combine web, api, database, app tests into just one simple automation framework

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- Its own syntax, while you can use the power of JavaScript and even Java for sophisticated cases - Docker/CLI native/runner equipped, which effectively means you ust need a terminal and the karate jar file to unleash all your tests into any environment - Karate call - combine web, api, database, app tests into just one simple automation framework

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