It is on the higher side cost-wise, but the usability is good. If they reduced the cost, it would help smaller organizations like ours to take advantage of the features it offers.
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LoadRunner is the best load testing tool, however, it is very expensive. The factors to purchase are:
1. It can simulate load a large number of concurrent users using small HW resources (CPU memory) compared with others.
2. It has a very specific protocol that other tools don't support since LR have 50+ supported protocols including complex one.
3. Having monitoring tool bundled (SiteScope)
4. The ease of use to
4.1 It can create scripts from recording engine or pcap import (and maintain).
4.2 Analysis module that you can correlate many graphs to find the bottleneck.
If you want to purchase, I suggest the average minimum amount such as the Web 500. However, if you want to perform a large scale or other specific protocols, you can consider purchasing VUser Days (Quota license) on top of it.
Lead Performance Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 20, 2023
Shift-left is very new to our organization because we have been using professional/community licenses. We are trying to use enterprise now because, with professionals, it's a one-machine license. It's a single user. We pay a lot for licensing. But the incentive is the support we get with it, that we pay once, and we are set.
Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway
Real User
Top 20
Oct 20, 2023
It is reasonable. We pay the cost, but we have everything. We have a big set of licenses for SAP and other applications. We have all kinds of licenses.
Performance Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
MSP
Top 5
May 25, 2023
On a scale of one to ten, where one is low and ten is a high price, I rate the solution a five. So, many things can be done with open-source solutions rather than Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. But LoadRunner provides scalability and stability, which helps save the money of our customers.
Senior Quality & Test Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 9, 2023
This is not an open-source product. You do have to pay for the solution. However, there are open-source solutions available. The cloud is probably competitive in terms of pricing. However, if you're talking about the on-premise stuff, the professional licenses or the enterprise licenses are on the high side of prices. They're not they're not cheap. The biggest thing about the cloud, and, for that matter, whatever application you're talking about, is that they take care of the headache of you maintaining the infrastructure needed to support your performance testing environment. I've been with LoadRunner long enough to know what it's like to maintain one of those types of environments since the cloud wasn't around ten years ago. Therefore, I've witnessed that the cloud offers significant savings in time and effort from a customer's point of view, even if you pay for it. That said, they don't give it away for free. You have everyone that's doing all the maintenance for you, including setting up your servers and making sure they use to start up the servers appropriately with the right level of software and keep the software up to date and all that stuff. That costs, and that's not free. There's a careful balancing act you have to have between how much you're going to use the cloud, and what you're gonna do on-premise.
Senior Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jan 20, 2023
When you compare the cost of other tools such as NeoLoad and LoadNinja, the cost of LoadRunner is on the expensive side. As a result, we are currently considering going with NeoLoad.
Test Architect Applications and Performance at Max Stack Labs
Real User
Dec 29, 2022
There's an Enterprise Professional and Cloud option as well. The cloud option is maybe called StormRunner. However, most clients choose on-premises deployments. I use the professional version. I'd rate the solution five out of ten as it is more expensive. There is a free trial for up to 50 users that companies should try.
Engineer 2 at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 6, 2022
It is very expensive compared to the other tools available in the market. LoadRunner is likely the most expensive one. I'd rate it a one or two out of five in terms of affordability. I'm not aware of the exact cost. I'm not involved in the purchasing.
The licensing model is complex. You have to pick up the protocol and the number of concurrent users, and then select the level of concurrent users. For example, there would be one price for 100 to 500 users and another for 500 to 2000 users. If you choose two protocols, then you will have to pay twice the amount depending on the number of concurrent users.
Sr. Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Aug 16, 2022
LoadRunner Professional's licensing costs are on the higher side, apart from the Community Edition. The Community Edition is free but limited to fifty users; after that, you have to pay for extra users.
Pricing depends on our choices because it depends on what type of protocol we are getting, what type of licensing we are getting, and what kind of relationships we have with HP and Micro Focus. We can't say how much it will be based on that. I cannot say because we are technical managers and I am not involved in any costing or pricing issues. I am not involved with any pricing. I would rate the pricing a one out of five. It is expensive.
Performance Test Line manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
May 30, 2022
There is an annual license required to use Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. There are not any additional costs other than the licensing fees to use it.
The licensing of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. If it can be easier and the concurrent run can be included with the current total number of users, it would be helpful.
LoadRunner is more expensive than some competing products. The pricing is a little too high. However, everything is mostly included in the initial license. It depends on how many nodes you want to set up. This is what determines some of the additional costs.
Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 19, 2020
There is a licensing cost that is expensive. There is also the Enterprise version of the software which allows other features that the Professional does not, such as, license sharing.
Head - Testing Centre of Excellence at NIIT Technologies Limited
Real User
Jun 15, 2020
I don't have any information about how much it costs to run the solution. I know it is expensive, but I don't handle the accounting, so I'm unsure how much our organization actually pays. I don't believe there are other costs beyond the standard licensing fee. There are different licence tiers. We have the maximum, so so don't have to deal with any limitations at any time. There's two types of users on the solution. One is the actual testers. In our organization, we have twenty people using this load. The others are virtual users. The licensing is dependent upon the virtual user and you are charged according to how many virtual users are using the application. Around twenty users are virtual in my organization.
Lead Test Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jan 12, 2020
The licensing fees are based on the number of users. There is also a free community edition, but it depends on what protocol you're using and how many users you want. Essentially, the licensing fees are based on the need.
QA Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
May 15, 2019
I don't know the licensing cost, but I think that you would get a discount for normal usage. I think there are different yearly options for different types of usage. It is not only how many users, but also whether it is shareable or not and other criteria involved in each feature. There are additional fees for the users and hardware linked to the processing.
Look at the options on other software which are not as pricey as LoadRunner. It's true that LoadRunner has all the features and a lot of ways to help, but then not all companies require such extensive tools. That is where I would probably suggest asking the pricing and the features integrated.
OpenText Professional Performance Engineering, known as LoadRunner Professional, stands out with its powerful scripting tool, flexible capabilities, and extensive analytics, supporting numerous concurrent users for impactful load testing. This performance engineering tool offers integration across systems and strong community support, paired with user-friendly interfaces. It excels in features like multi-protocol support, auto-correlation, and detailed reporting. However, improvements are...
The pricing should be reduced and made more competitive.
The license was a bit expensive. That was the reason we used to depend on the customer to fund it.
It is on the higher side when compared with other tools, but given the suite or package it provides, it is a fair price.
The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement.
The solution's pricing is expensive.
It is on the higher side cost-wise, but the usability is good. If they reduced the cost, it would help smaller organizations like ours to take advantage of the features it offers.
LoadRunner is the best load testing tool, however, it is very expensive. The factors to purchase are:
1. It can simulate load a large number of concurrent users using small HW resources (CPU memory) compared with others.
2. It has a very specific protocol that other tools don't support since LR have 50+ supported protocols including complex one.
3. Having monitoring tool bundled (SiteScope)
4. The ease of use to
4.1 It can create scripts from recording engine or pcap import (and maintain).
4.2 Analysis module that you can correlate many graphs to find the bottleneck.
If you want to purchase, I suggest the average minimum amount such as the Web 500. However, if you want to perform a large scale or other specific protocols, you can consider purchasing VUser Days (Quota license) on top of it.
The pricing model and the software licensing model could be better.
OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise's pricing is reasonable.
Shift-left is very new to our organization because we have been using professional/community licenses. We are trying to use enterprise now because, with professionals, it's a one-machine license. It's a single user. We pay a lot for licensing. But the incentive is the support we get with it, that we pay once, and we are set.
It is reasonable. We pay the cost, but we have everything. We have a big set of licenses for SAP and other applications. We have all kinds of licenses.
It is a high-cost investment, particularly for companies with small budgets or limited testing needs.
I have been using the paid version of the product.
I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is low and ten is a high price, I rate the solution a five. So, many things can be done with open-source solutions rather than Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. But LoadRunner provides scalability and stability, which helps save the money of our customers.
This is not an open-source product. You do have to pay for the solution. However, there are open-source solutions available. The cloud is probably competitive in terms of pricing. However, if you're talking about the on-premise stuff, the professional licenses or the enterprise licenses are on the high side of prices. They're not they're not cheap. The biggest thing about the cloud, and, for that matter, whatever application you're talking about, is that they take care of the headache of you maintaining the infrastructure needed to support your performance testing environment. I've been with LoadRunner long enough to know what it's like to maintain one of those types of environments since the cloud wasn't around ten years ago. Therefore, I've witnessed that the cloud offers significant savings in time and effort from a customer's point of view, even if you pay for it. That said, they don't give it away for free. You have everyone that's doing all the maintenance for you, including setting up your servers and making sure they use to start up the servers appropriately with the right level of software and keep the software up to date and all that stuff. That costs, and that's not free. There's a careful balancing act you have to have between how much you're going to use the cloud, and what you're gonna do on-premise.
When you compare the cost of other tools such as NeoLoad and LoadNinja, the cost of LoadRunner is on the expensive side. As a result, we are currently considering going with NeoLoad.
There's an Enterprise Professional and Cloud option as well. The cloud option is maybe called StormRunner. However, most clients choose on-premises deployments. I use the professional version. I'd rate the solution five out of ten as it is more expensive. There is a free trial for up to 50 users that companies should try.
It is very expensive compared to the other tools available in the market. LoadRunner is likely the most expensive one. I'd rate it a one or two out of five in terms of affordability. I'm not aware of the exact cost. I'm not involved in the purchasing.
The fee for LoadRunner Professional is very high - about US$500 per user.
The licensing model is complex. You have to pick up the protocol and the number of concurrent users, and then select the level of concurrent users. For example, there would be one price for 100 to 500 users and another for 500 to 2000 users. If you choose two protocols, then you will have to pay twice the amount depending on the number of concurrent users.
LoadRunner Professional's licensing costs are on the higher side, apart from the Community Edition. The Community Edition is free but limited to fifty users; after that, you have to pay for extra users.
Pricing depends on our choices because it depends on what type of protocol we are getting, what type of licensing we are getting, and what kind of relationships we have with HP and Micro Focus. We can't say how much it will be based on that. I cannot say because we are technical managers and I am not involved in any costing or pricing issues. I am not involved with any pricing. I would rate the pricing a one out of five. It is expensive.
The licensing is on a yearly basis and is relatively expensive.
I am not aware of the pricing.
LoadRunner is a little more expensive than other solutions, but there are no hidden costs.
Micro Focus offers several options for licensing, it really depends on the number of users you have and your use case.
There is an annual license required to use Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. There are not any additional costs other than the licensing fees to use it.
The licensing of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. If it can be easier and the concurrent run can be included with the current total number of users, it would be helpful.
LoadRunner is more expensive than some competing products. The pricing is a little too high. However, everything is mostly included in the initial license. It depends on how many nodes you want to set up. This is what determines some of the additional costs.
There is a licensing cost that is expensive. There is also the Enterprise version of the software which allows other features that the Professional does not, such as, license sharing.
This is not a cheap product.
LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product.
I don't have any information about how much it costs to run the solution. I know it is expensive, but I don't handle the accounting, so I'm unsure how much our organization actually pays. I don't believe there are other costs beyond the standard licensing fee. There are different licence tiers. We have the maximum, so so don't have to deal with any limitations at any time. There's two types of users on the solution. One is the actual testers. In our organization, we have twenty people using this load. The others are virtual users. The licensing is dependent upon the virtual user and you are charged according to how many virtual users are using the application. Around twenty users are virtual in my organization.
The licensing fees are based on the number of users. There is also a free community edition, but it depends on what protocol you're using and how many users you want. Essentially, the licensing fees are based on the need.
There's the licensing fee, and then additional fees on top of that as well.
I don't know the licensing cost, but I think that you would get a discount for normal usage. I think there are different yearly options for different types of usage. It is not only how many users, but also whether it is shareable or not and other criteria involved in each feature. There are additional fees for the users and hardware linked to the processing.
Look at the options on other software which are not as pricey as LoadRunner. It's true that LoadRunner has all the features and a lot of ways to help, but then not all companies require such extensive tools. That is where I would probably suggest asking the pricing and the features integrated.