# Appium Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

> With the help of Capterra, learn about Appium Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Performance Testing products and more.

Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/185602/Appium

---

# 

 Appium Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team.

[Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Integrations](#integrations)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews)

Appium

## What is Appium?

Open source system to help developers test and monitor the performance of applications.

## What is Appium used for?

[Performance Testing](https://www.capterra.com/performance-testing-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 16 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

\-

Neutral

\-

Negative

\-

Contact vendor  
for pricing

Free trial  
available

Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products...

Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings...

Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings...

Do you work for Appium?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://js.foundation/&name=Appium)

## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Appium

4.3 (16)

VS.

[4.2 (9)](https://www.capterra.com/p/138288/WebLOAD/reviews/)

Starting Price

Contact vendor

Starting Price

Contact vendor

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

3.8 (16)

Ease Of Use

4.3 (663)

Value For Money

4.2 (13)

Value For Money

4.0 (573)

Customer Service

4.1 (13)

Customer Service

4.7 (552)

## Appium alternatives

[BrowserStack](https://www.capterra.com/p/162900/BrowserStack/)

[4.6 (663)](https://www.capterra.com/p/162900/BrowserStack/reviews/)

Starting price

$39.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

96%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/162900/BrowserStack/)

Highest Rated

[PFLB](https://www.capterra.com/p/205650/PFLB/)

[5.0 (44)](https://www.capterra.com/p/205650/PFLB/reviews/)

Starting price

$50.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/205650/PFLB/)

[Novabench](https://www.capterra.com/p/10014127/Novabench/)

[5.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10014127/Novabench/#reviews)

Starting price

$99.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/10014127/Novabench/)

[Network Performance Monitor](https://www.capterra.com/p/146805/Network-Performance-Monitor/)

[4.5 (76)](https://www.capterra.com/p/146805/Network-Performance-Monitor/reviews/)

Starting price

$1638.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

95%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/146805/Network-Performance-Monitor/)

[View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/185602/Appium/alternatives/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Testing Management

5.0 (2)

0.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Test specific APIs to determine if systems are properly functioning

Web Testing

4.0 (2)

0.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Checks web applications or websites for issues or bugs

Testing Scripts

5.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Pre-written scripts that simulate situations within each test

Test Performance Metrics

5.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Provides test performance metrics such as availability, response time, and stability for a system

Appium 4 features

Provides test performance metrics such as availability, response time, and stability for a system

Test specific APIs to determine if systems are properly functioning

Pre-written scripts that simulate situations within each test

Checks web applications or websites for issues or bugs

Features

4.3 (16)

4.3

Based on 16 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.2 (13)

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.00

Value for money

4.2 (13)

4.2

Based on 13 reviews

## Integrations

[

Codemagic](https://www.capterra.com/p/152573/Nevercode/)[

Deque](https://www.capterra.com/p/168781/Deque/)[

Subject7](https://www.capterra.com/p/196855/Subject7/)[

Zebrunner](https://www.capterra.com/p/193697/zebrunner/)[

Tricentis NeoLoad](https://www.capterra.com/p/242194/NeoLoad/)[

Parasoft SOAtest](https://www.capterra.com/p/207900/Parasoft-SOAtest/)[

AWS Device Farm](https://www.capterra.com/p/234693/AWS-Device-Farm/)[

Digital.ai Continuous Testing](https://www.capterra.com/p/230113/Digitalai-Continuous-Testing/)

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.1 (13)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.1 (13)

4.1

Based on 13 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.3

Based on 16 reviews

Filter by rating

5(7)

4(7)

3(2)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

SK

Sagar K.

Test specialist

Telecommunications

### "Very useful test automation framework"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

August 10, 2024

Pros

It’s so user friendly to automate mobile apps. Being a open source it’s support for multiple languages is very useful.

Cons

Set up is slightly complicated but still worth it.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SG

Shravya g.

QA

Information Technology and Services

### "Open source for mobile automation"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

August 11, 2022

Pros

It is an open source. Appium supports multiple mobile platforms. Appium can also be used to run multiple application tests at the same time.

Cons

There is not really a lot that I dislike about appium, but one thing is the ease of scrolling to find the elements on the app. You have to write commands so that you perform a scroll action and then be able to find the element

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DM

Daniel M.

Software Developer

Information Technology and Services

### "Best tool for functional test automation"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 27, 2022

Pros

This automation platform provides everything for cross-platform functional test automation. It works for both Android and iOS platforms.

Cons

Until now, there's nothing I'm missing in this software.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

George Rex A.

Co-founder & CAO

Information Technology and Services

### "The Goto Tool for Automated Mobile App Testing"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

April 25, 2021

I am trying to be a mobile app developer for both android and IOS. So, testing my app projects no matter how small they are really matters to me. So, Appium is a really functional tool for my mission, and I love it when open source applications can compete with proprietary or paid industry solutions.

Pros

I started developing apps for mobile, especially shuffling between Google's android studio and JetBrains PyCharm. Whenever I finish any simple project, I have no fear as to the testing phase because Appium works efficiently well enough with any of this programming language I choose to build with. Secondly, it impresses me to note that this great tool is free to use. What more could a developer ask for.

Cons

I hate it when getting an application up and running without hassles is a hassle itself. It took more so much time to learn through the guide just to ensure I set up the tool to work as required. This is just my concern with Appium. But outside that, I love the automation process.

Alternatives considered

[UserTesting](https://www.capterra.com/p/173755/UserTesting/)

Reasons for choosing Appium

I am new to app development, so I just didn't want to overwhelm my choices by paying for solutions when I could try and use the free stuff. UserTesting is a name in the industry already, but Appium speaks louder for the community.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

dolly b.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "Appium"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 22, 2021

Pros

While doing automation, Searching for the locators like XPath, id, text, and many more can find easily. Also at the same time right after writing the XPath, we can do a check by click on that XPath and check if that is right or wrong.

Cons

Sometimes after connecting the device from the appium it is taking a long time to launch the application. And also after getting disconnected we need to start the same process from the starting.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Thang N.

Senior iOS Developer

Information Technology and Services

### "Test automation tool built with developer's mindset"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

2.0

2.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

January 8, 2021

My work flow involves Appium and Robot framework to do integration test and end to end test, it's very hard to dockerlize the process due to python version and dependency requirement. But it works for our team despite limitation in deployment.

Pros

Appium is open source and support both Android and iOS, also works with multiple programming language like java, python, ruby , C# as well as all kind of apps.

Cons

Setup process for Appium is tricky if you go with full manual path to implement all kind of mobile OS versions. As an open source project it is sometime inconsistent and tent to appear to skilled developer who know what and how to do with all kind of configuration and errors.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

PB

Pedro B.

QA Intern

Education Management

### "The Software that saves time "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

2.0

2.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

April 21, 2020

My experience is ok, isn't that good cause the app isn't that easy to use as others

Pros

The thing that I most liked on Appium was the integration with mobile, the integration is really good, also the connection with it too.

Cons

Isn't that easy to use, compared with other softwares, Appium isn't that easy to use, after a long search on the internet I've found out how to do some small steps on the software.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Bharat S.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "Best for mobile app testing "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

February 7, 2020

I’m doing appium testing on different mobile applications.

Pros

It is good open source mobile application testing tools. It works on all the platforms and perform with many programming language. It support to both android and iOS applications.

Cons

It difficult to understand to some people because it requires a programming language to understand. Setup in system is little complex.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

KL

Karuna L.

Software Test Engineer

Computer Software

### "Great software, highly recommended for mobile automation"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 7, 2020

Our mobile application had 0 automation in the beginning. Now within a period of 3-4 months, we have the entire automation framework setup upto 70% using Appium by our QA engineers.

Pros

Appium is a great mobile automation testing software. Can help any novice, intermediate or an advanced engineer to help setup the test automation framework for a native and hybrid mobile application. Very easy to understand using the documentation, great inspector UI and easy to use.

Cons

There are not many FAQs or guides if you face any error during setup of the iOS framework using the new XCUITest framework. Had to struggle finding solutions online

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SV

Sumanth V.

Qa automation engineer mobile

Computer Software

### "Beware of Appium updates"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

December 15, 2019

We have setup iOS and Android test automation based on Appium. We run tests locally and also on CI. Better try to update appium on CI first and see the results over there and try to update locally. Appium save capabilities UI sucks.

Pros

Element Inspector, actions we can perform on the inspector. Easy to configure and run tests. Open source makes to use for free. Appium community is always active. Can run parallel tests on any platform like same OS parallelism or multi OS parallellism.

Cons

Beware of updating appium as it may break things, its hard to manage between appium server and appium as different versions. server logs are not accurate enough to understand failures.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

[View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/185602/Appium/reviews/)

Independent research methodology

Capterra's researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology.

[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/proprietary-data-research/)

How Capterra verifies reviews

Capterra carefully verified over 2.5 million+ reviews to bring you authentic software experiences from real users. Our human moderators verify that reviewers are real people and that reviews are authentic. They use leading tech to analyze text quality and to detect plagiarism and generative AI.

[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-verify-reviews/)

How Capterra ensures transparency

Capterra lists all providers across its website—not just those that pay us—so that users can make informed purchase decisions. Capterra is free for users. Software providers pay us for sponsored profiles to receive web traffic and sales opportunities. Sponsored profiles include a link-out icon that takes users to the provider's website.

[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/)