Appium Requirements

The basic requirements for the Appium server are:

• A macOS, Linux, or Windows operating system
• Node.js version in the SemVer range ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0
• NPM version >= 8 (NPM is usually bundled with Node.js, but can be upgraded independently)

By itself, Appium is relatively lightweight and doesn't have significant disk space or RAM requirements. It can even be run in resource-constrained environments like Raspberry Pi, so long as Node.js is available.

To use Appium to automate a particular platform, please refer to the documentation of the Appium driver(s) for that platform for additional dependencies. It is almost universally the case that Appium drivers for a given platform will require the developer toolchain and SDKs for that platform to be available.