ReadyAPI vs StresStimulus comparison

SmartBear and Stimulus Technology are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. SmartBear is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.5, while Stimulus Technology is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.5. SmartBear holds a 2.7% mindshare in PTT, compared to Stimulus Technology’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of SmartBear users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Stimulus Technology users who would recommend it.

ReadyAPI

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 5, 2025

ReadyAPI and StresStimulus are competing in the API testing and load testing market. ReadyAPI is recognized for its extensive feature set and ease of use, while StresStimulus is better known for its robust load testing capabilities.

Features:ReadyAPI offers easy test creation, data-driven testing, and seamless integration with multiple tools and platforms. It has a user-friendly interface and supports comprehensive API testing. StresStimulus focuses on detailed reporting and advanced load testing features, offering support for various protocols and performance scenarios.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:ReadyAPI provides straightforward deployment with its standalone package and includes robust customer support through extensive documentation and forums. Deployment is more intuitive for users, facilitating a smoother process. On the other hand, StresStimulus offers a flexible deployment model and is noted for personalized customer interaction and assistance.

Pricing and ROI:ReadyAPI's initial setup cost is higher, but its extensive features ensure a good return on investment. It is ideal for those looking for comprehensive testing solutions. StresStimulus presents a cost-effective option with flexible pricing, yielding significant returns for those focusing on load testing functionalities.

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Categories and Ranking

ReadyAPI

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

7th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (17th)

StresStimulus

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Load Testing Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of ReadyAPI is 2.7%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StresStimulus is 1.4%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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SandeepSingh9

Sr. QA Engineer at Arizona Department of Education

Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper

One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration.

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Shiju Chandran

Manager - Performance & Site Reliability at AssureCare LLC

Good performance testing, simple UI, and the ability to run the same script across different domains

StresStimulus simulates browser HTTP calls. I would love to see where it can also simulate a real browser to measure visually complete time. For example, to be something similar to TruClient. We run tests on SQL statements and stored procedures directly, even before integrating with UI. I wish there were a way to connect to my application DB and run SQL queries using a JDBC connection. In a world where the applications are changing every day, I hope StresStimulus comes up with an option to compare HTTP requests before and after deployment and tell me what requests have changed. This would help avoid rescripting every time, and this would be a huge deal.

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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

"The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"This solution is very intuitive. Once you finish your first few testing cases, you can change several parameters and create lots of testing cases. You could use the same testing cases for different purposes such as automation, performance and screen testing."

"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities."

"For anyone who does not have experience with automation, ReadyAPI provides a sense of comfort, especially for testers who find it hard to go directly into coding."

"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the scripting tools and the connectivity to external data sources, such as Excel and PDF files. There are plenty of useful features that are useful, such as automating flexibility and usability. Overall, the solution is easy to use."

"It's easy to automate for more data-driven testing."

"ReadyAPI enhances my workflows by allowing us to use Docker containers based on the ReadyAPI test runner."

Cons

"The performance in some cases needs improvement. Sometimes it requires too many resources."

"The solution is made up of multiple tools, and the one additional feature we'd like to have is load testing."

"Advanced functionalities could be improved."

"The content on ReadyAPI in SmartBear Academy is outdated."

"The Property Transfer capability could be more user friendly because it is a bit difficult to understand."

"It doesn't have connectors to the NoSQL database. This is one of the things where they do not have a very solid strategy today. Other solutions have an in-built mechanism where I can directly and easily connect. An API is more around a user submitting a request on the frontend. It then hits the backend, puts the data, and responds back. If I am hitting MongoDB or NoSQL databases, I do not have ready-made inbuilt solutions in ReadyAPI that can easily help me in automating it faster. In our organization, we deal with NoSQL databases, and therefore, we need Groovy. We just cannot have a connector from ReadyAPI to do that. I have to write Groovy scripts. If you have themes that are predominantly using MongoDB, it leads to more maintenance and support activity because we are introducing more code into our commission. In terms of additional features, it can have cloud support. This is one of the things where we are getting into cloud support. We'll see how it works, but it is one of the doubts that we still have."

"The reporting is not very robust and needs to be improved."

"What needs improvement in ReadyAPI is its load testing feature because there was a hiccup when my team performed some load testing on the tool. My team had meetings with the ReadyAPI team and tried to get that issue fixed, but it still hasn't improved. This is a shortcoming of the tool, especially when you compare it with HP LoadRunner."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive. Each user needs to be licensed, and there are different licenses within the product. It starts with 750 euros for a single user per year, but for the full product features, you need to pay a lot more. There are three versions. This cost is for functional testing, and then there is a cost for load testing and virtual services. If you want to use these areas with the functional test license, you are limited. You hit some limits in these functions. If you have all three licenses, then you have full functionality for the API."

"We use fixed licenses, and the last time I checked, I want to say it's around $680 per seat per year."

"The price of the solution has been fine."

"This is a cheap solution when you consider the money that will be saved in testing."

"For each license, they charge the same amount, which is less than $1,000 for each desktop license."

"The price was around $6,000 for one license, but I don't remember exactly. It is definitely expensive. Our organization was planning on having multiple licenses for this year."

"The thing with ReadyAPI is that you have to buy different licenses for different purposes."

"We pay $3,000 annually for a floating license. actually. That allows another person from my company to use it as well. It's a cloud-based license."

Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Insurance Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

11%

Hospitality Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ReadyAPI?

The performance testing capabilities are very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ReadyAPI?

Currently, we don't extensively use the performance testing due to license costs. License prices can be a factor in considering which technologies to adopt.

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What needs improvement with ReadyAPI?

In native teams and cloud environments, there is room for improvement. I'm considering the use of AWS and its Lambda functionalities prepared by the vendor. These are more so points from my wishlis...

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Overview

ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.

ReadyAPI Features

Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:

Continuous integration
Comprehensive dashboard
API discovery
Central, standardized reporting function
Plugin architecture
ReadyAPI Projects
Multiple options for scripting to create functional, load, or security tests

ReadyAPI Benefits

Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:

Easy and flexible test creation and execution: ReadyAPI has visual editors and wizards that make testing easy, saving time and simplifying onboarding.
Test APIs continuously: With ReadyAPI you can run consistent tests on local environments, Docker containers, or other distributed staging environments.
Team friendly: ReadyAPI enables software teams with the ability to easily share testing projects and artifacts, share licenses between team members, and report issues directly from the testing IDE.
Powerful, data-driven testing capabilities: With ReadyAPI, you can save time by checking for numerous real world conditions.
Supports multiple specifications, schemas, and protocols: ReadyAPI includes legacy SOAP services, microservices powered by Apache Kafka, and mainstream REST services, as well as IoT use cases leveraging MQTT. It allows you to test and virtualize the most popular API protocols and also to import APIs from specifications and schemas instantly.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.

PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”

An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."

Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.

They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”

SmartBear

StresStimulus is a load testing tool for websites, mobile and Enterprise apps. It determines the web performance and scalability of your application under the rigors of heavy traffic load. Hundreds or thousands of physical users are realistically emulated through on-premise load generators or in a cloud testing environment

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Healthcare Data Solutions (HDS)

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