When comparing SikuliX vs eggPlant Function, the Slant community recommends eggPlant Function for most people. In the question“What are the best generic (image based) GUI functional test frameworks?” eggPlant Function is ranked 2nd while SikuliX is ranked 3rd.
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
SikuliX is cross-platform and available on the most popular systems (Windows, OSX and Linux).
Pro Simple text recognition
SikuliX uses Tesseract OCR to have basic text recognition which can be used to search text in images.
Pro OpenSource
It's free and open source with the source code hosted on GitHub.
Pro Simple IDE
Pro Can run in different languages
Allows running scripts in Jypthon (Python) or JRuby (Ruby) and has also an API.
Pro One of the most feature complete
Pro Text recognition
eggPlant Function uses OCR technology to recognize text in images. It also supports different languages including Russian and Chinese.
Cons
Con Unknown yearly subscription fee
Although there's a free trial, in order to be able to use eggPlant Functional fully you need to pay a yearly subscription fee which is not clear and nor is it available on the site. You need to contact the eggPlant team to get the price information.