# Composal vs SoapUI

SoapUI is focused on API and service behavior, including protocols that browser-centric QA does not exercise directly. Composal tests a running web experience and reports outcomes from Scenarios or exploratory Deep Scan.

## Composal

Composal sends AI browser agents to use your running web app and check the outcomes you care about. Define journeys as plain-English Scenarios, map existing flows with Discovery, or explore for bugs with Deep Scan. Runs keep recordings and reproduction steps so your team or coding agent can investigate a Finding.

[Verify documentation](https://composal.com/docs/verify)

## SoapUI

Open-source SOAP and REST service testing

SoapUI Open Source is a graphical tool for building functional tests of SOAP and REST services.

## What each tool does

| Workflow | Composal | SoapUI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Run browser journeys](https://composal.com/product/scenarios) | ✓ Yes: Run saved browser Scenarios and return recordings and reproducible Findings. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Map application workflows](https://composal.com/product/discovery) | ✓ Yes: Discovery maps key application areas and user journeys. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Explore for unexpected issues](https://composal.com/product/deep-scan) | ✓ Yes: Deep Scan explores the running application and reports reproducible issues. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Describe checks in plain English](https://composal.com/product/scenarios) | ✓ Yes: Author Scenarios around the intended user outcome, then review the steps and expected results. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Run or inspect from a terminal](https://composal.com/product/cli) | ✓ Yes: Use the CLI to start and inspect verification runs and their Findings. | – With setup: Connect its specialist checks to your development workflow using supported integrations. |
| API and protocol testing | × No: Use a dedicated tool for this specialist workflow alongside Composal’s browser verification. | ✓ Yes: SoapUI Open Source is a graphical tool for building functional tests of SOAP and REST services. |

With setup means you supply code or configuration. Not confirmed means support for this workflow needs checking with the vendor.

## Where each fits

Choose SoapUI when a team needs accessible SOAP or REST functional tests and can own the test project and its execution.

## Try this evaluation

Choose one SOAP or REST operation that supports a browser task. Create a SoapUI test for its request, response, and an error case.

### Coverage

Which user outcomes must this release prove, and which specialist checks must stay in your existing stack?

### Setup

Who prepares accounts, test data, permissions and access to the deployment being tested?

### Evidence

Can the engineer reproduce a reported failure from the recording and steps, without asking the tester to investigate again?

### Ownership

Who updates the checks when the product changes, and can the team review what a passing result actually proves?

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[All comparisons](https://composal.com/compare.md)