Unlike cloud testing platforms with opaque per-execution pricing, Karate Agent is licensed annually, sized by the team using it, not by test count, environments or CI runs. Running costs are transparent: you pay your LLM provider for tokens, or nothing if you use scripted flows.
Token budgets are enforced per-job via maxIterations. The dashboard shows input/output token counts per session.
What You Run
Pay nothing for scripted flows. Pay pennies for flows + LLM recovery. Pay a bit more for prompt-only exploration. You choose per job.
Ranges reflect typical enterprise web workflows. Your cost depends on page size, model choice, and how many steps need LLM recovery.
Start in Explore to build coverage. As each flow gets codified, cost drops. Most production regression suites run in Guided + Flows (~$0.02/run) or Full Flows ($0/run). A 12-step Guidewire submission went from $0.50 to $0 once flows were in place.
See the Guidewire case studyCost Controls
Every mechanism is documented, configurable, and visible in the dashboard. No surprises on the token bill.
Scripted .js flows run at native JavaScript speed via Flow.run(). Zero LLM calls for known paths.
maxIterations caps LLM calls per job. The agent stops when it hits the ceiling: your budget is never exceeded.
Prompt caching gives a high hit rate on the system prompt, billed at a fraction of regular input cost on supported providers.
Run Gemma 4 26B (4B active, MoE) or Qwen 3.6 35B (3B active, MoE) on one 24 GB GPU via Ollama. Both pass the full benchmark suite. Zero cloud API cost.
Pricing Model
The usual model bundles infrastructure, LLM usage, and per-execution fees into a single opaque bill. Karate Agent unbundles it.
Enterprise Ready
No feature gating. No premium tier. No paid add-ons. The full platform (both modes, the flow system, every integration) is in one jar and one Docker image.
1 jar. 1 image.
Your infra · Your data · Your rules
No SaaS dependency, no telemetry, no data egress. Pair with Ollama for a fully air-gapped stack: the LLM, the browser, and the grid all run on your hardware.
No per-run fees
Annual licence · tokens at cost
One annual licence, sized by your team. Your LLM costs are your own, billed direct by Anthropic, OpenAI, or whichever provider. Scripted flows use no tokens.
Interactive + Autonomous
Both modes · Flow system · Shared library
Explore live in the dashboard, then submit unattended jobs. Flows compose into orchestrators, stored in git, shared across teams. Every feature is in the one licence.
Audit + API + CI
REST · MCP · self-hosted · session trails
Standard REST API and MCP server, full audit trails with H.264 session recordings, self-hosted behind your firewall. A single curl triggers jobs from any CI pipeline.
Tell us about your team and testing needs. We'll find the right fit.