Runscope Reviews

Name: Runscope
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4.4 (11 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

11 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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Runscope is the #3 ranked solution in API Monitoring Software. PeerSpot users give Runscope an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Runscope is most commonly compared to Postman: Runscope vs Postman.

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QualityA876f

Quality Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that. Also, it would be nice to be able to generate API documentation.

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Brian Robison

Director, QA

File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios. Having Runscope support file uploads is the biggest improvement that we would benefit from. I would be willing to pay more if file upload was supported.

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Directorae62

Director of Engineering at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We would like to have an improved ability to share a set of tests across different environments (e.g., dev, stage, and prod). The shared environments feature is great in practice, but in reality, if you have two or three of them using the same set of tests, it gets complicated to figure out which environment is failing. Overall, the user interface (UI) requires a lot of clicking around. Waiting for asynchronous results requires a lot of "Pause" steps, which is quite difficult to get right. It would be great to have some type of "Waiting for Results" step, which would include success/failure conditions, then eventual timeout for retries.

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Runscope mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Runscope in the API Monitoring Software category stands at 18.9%, down from 20.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	API Monitoring Software	Jan 9, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 9, 2025	Download
Comparison	Runscope vs Postman	Jan 9, 2025	Download
Comparison	Runscope vs NGINX API Gateway	Jan 9, 2025	Download
Comparison	Runscope vs AlertSite	Jan 9, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Postman	4.1	42.6%	95%	58 interviews Add to research
AlertSite	4.0	11.5%	100%	5 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"You can run it off the cloud and against different data centers. That's one of the plus points for most people for this product, as opposed to some other solutions."
"It uses JavaScript which is easy."
"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."

Room for Improvement

"the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug."
"I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens."
"I would like to see easier integration and display of test results so that the data could be shared via a dashboard within our company. (Some integration is possible, provided you use one of the supported platforms)."

Pricing

"Pricing is fair."
"Having the different plans organized by team size, buckets, and requests per billing period works for our needs. Larger companies may need to take a close look at these elements."
"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"

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