Akamai CloudTest vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise comparison

Akamai and OpenText are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. Akamai is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while OpenText is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Akamai CloudTest

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85% willing to recommend

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Akamai CloudTest and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Performance Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Akamai CloudTest vs. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise Report (Updated: November 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai CloudTest

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

11th

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

5th

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Vinod Patil

Senior Manager - Performance Architect at Publicis Sapient

Is user-friendly and offers live monitoring

Extending the same cloud tool to make it app native so that it can help with device performance testing towards HTTP requests and responses. If you can have a front-end tool like Google's Core Web Vitals, it would be great. If you have some integration with Google's Core Web Vitals, it would be great. I want the tool to have IP spoofing because whenever you do load testing, you will have a little bit of static IP based on a particular load generator. If we have an option of just making the real-time scenario, like having IP spoofing, and the range of IPs dynamically gets changed with the request just to mimic the real-time user behavior, then it would be a good improvement. Having integration to APM tools, like Dynatrace or AppDynamics, the way we have in the load tools, would be good.

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VictorHorescu

Chief Executive Officer at iqst

Ability to test almost every tool in the companies I enter and performs well in a distributed environment

It would be beneficial if LoadRunner could optimize resource usage, especially for protocols that require significant resources, like TrueClient, which interacts directly with the UI. If they could improve resource usage, like ingest or for the load generator, using less CPU or RAM memory, that would be great. That's where I have problems. In real time, when they ask for 5,000 or 10,000 concurrent users, I have to provision a lot of virtual machines to define this load. Then there are situations with certain platforms, especially document management platforms, where the technology is so weird that normal LoadRunner protocols cannot detect it. So, in that case, I have to use that special TruClient protocol. I have to use the TruClient protocol, which actually clicks on the object. Despite the SQL technology, I can still create a script and test for performance. So what I would appreciate a lot is if this protocol would require less resources on a normal virtual machine. I can use fewer concurrent users with TruClient protocols as opposed to almost one hundred with HTTP/HTML. As opposed to many more with HTTP/HTML from, let's say, JMeter. So, optimization at that level for resource consumption by OpenText would be much appreciated.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This is an awesome performance testing tool for web based applications, able to generate load multiple geographies, dynamic ramp-up to any levels of virtual users."

"The solution is very stable."

"The level of support is quite good and the integration is also very flexible."

"From my own experience, if you're talking about load testing and performance testing then definitely you should go for CloudTest. Because when we compared CloudTest with Performance Center, cost wise it was a better solution. It is easy to use as well, and you can definitely get an automation engineer or a performance engineer with very little exposure to any programming or scripting language such as JavaScript. I would definitely recommend this solution and would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten."

"The tool is very user-friendly, so you can save a lot of time in terms of your preparation activities."

"It has offered me some reliability against other products, like JMeter or some other tools."

"The host performance testing of any application using a host/controller is the most valuable feature."

"We have a centralized delivery team and we are able to meet enterprise requirements, which include different types of protocols that are involved, including scripting. The technology supports that and enables us to have a wider range of testing. Enterprise-level testing is something that we are satisfied with."

"LoadRunner Enterprise's most valuable features are load simulation and creating correlation for parameters."

"Provides the performance of load test applications and reliably on good reporting."

"You can test a huge variety of applications, not just web-based systems, but SAP, Oracle, web services, pretty much anything out in the market place, but it's mobile-based testing."

"We are delivering fine performance results and performance recommendations using Performance Center."

"Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise supports a lot of technologies. The existing performance testing that this tool is capable of is good. The protocols that are available are widely varied when compared to other performance testing tools."

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Cons

"In terms of improvement, I think integration of these tools with the leading EPM tools would be good. It would help to seamlessly integrate to Dynatrace or AppDynamics to understand what the profiling looks like when generating a load."

"If we have an option of just making the real-time scenario, like having IP spoofing, and the range of IPs dynamically gets changed with the request just to mimic the real-time user behavior, then it would be a good improvement."

"It's a manual process to whitelist respective internal IPs in coordination with web operations team to access Soasta. Availability of any standardized tool from Soasta will make setup process easy."

"Akamai cloud test integration into our current CI/CD pipelines (i.e.) identify and resolve the issues during the sprint phase which helps in delivering an absolute product and reduces time to market/release."

"The test clip should be more user-friendly."

"The process of upgrading LoadRunner can be difficult and time-consuming."

"Dashboard creation should be implemented, so we can get the results in a desired format."

"It would be beneficial if LoadRunner could optimize resource usage, especially for protocols that require significant resources, like TrueClient, which interacts directly with the UI. If they could improve resource usage, like ingest or for the load generator, using less CPU or RAM memory, that would be great. That's where I have problems."

"The technical support offered by the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"In Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, I need to spend a lot of time training people, while on other low-code or no-code platforms, I need not invest that much time."

"It is tough to maintain from the infrastructure side."

"Third-party product integrations could be a little more slickly handled."

"I believe the data that demonstrates the automated correlations should be corrected."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is at an intermediate level. When you compare it with other enterprise load testing tools, it falls under the average category."

"We have a yearly license, and I would give it a rating of three out of five."

"Running cost is very low."

"The price is really steep. It's an enterprise-level tool."

"I give the cost a one out of ten."

"I have not been directly involved in price negotiations but my understanding is that while the cost is a little bit high, it provides good value for the money."

"There is an ROI. What LoadRunner does, is it prevents failures when there are many, many concurrent users in the systems of a company."

"The price is a bit too high."

"ROI is 200%."

"We used the Professional version and then moved to the enterprise version. We have subscribed to 1000 user licenses. The tool will be super expensive if we take up 5,000 user licenses. We have to limit ourselves on testing."

"I rate the product's pricing a three out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akamai CloudTest?

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What is your primary use case for Akamai CloudTest?

I use the solution in my company for load testing. You can say that it is used on the API and then for web page-level load testing.

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What advice do you have for others considering Akamai CloudTest?

The tool's very first benefit is zero maintenance. You need not take care of your controller or load generator, so there is zero maintenance. The second benefit of the tool would be in the area of ...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

Now that LoadRunner integrates with Dynatrace and other monitoring tools, it simplifies the process of integration into a company, taking merely five minutes to set up. This ease of integration a...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

In 2019, I was dealing with the costs of LoadRunner. While I don't remember the exact figures, JMeter being free and RPT being cheaper makes them attractive. The high cost of LoadRunner, in contras...

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

While I don't see any issues with LoadRunner's functionality, the cost of the tool is a major factor. Many of my customers have had to switch to different tools due to the cost of LoadRunner, despi...

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Comparisons

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

BlazeMeter vs Akamai CloudTest

Compared 9% of the time

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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Compared 38% of the time

OpenText LoadRunner Professional vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Compared 24% of the time

Tricentis NeoLoad vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Compared 9% of the time

OpenText Silk Performer vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Compared 6% of the time

BlazeMeter vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Performance Center, Micro Focus Performance Center, HPE Performance Center

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OpenText

Overview

Soasta's CloudTest rapidly builds realistic test scenarios using real user data, then tests, analyzes and repairs faster. CloudTest's visual test environment and real-time analytics test your website, mobile app and api backend to give you a streaming view of all your performance data while tests run from back-end systems to front end performance.

Your globally distributed performance testing teams have the responsibility of driving quality acrossyour enterprise while testing a broad range of application types, managing costs and deploying applications that meet the performance requirements of your business. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise delivers a collaborative testing platform that reduces complexity, centralizes resources and leverages shared assets and licenses to increase consistency across your enterprise.

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Hexaware, British Sky Broadcasting, JetBlue

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