What are the best Load Testing Tools?

Apache JMeter, k6, Gatling, Locust, and AWS Device Farm are the most popular tools in the category “Load Testing”. “Requires no programming knowledge” is the primary reason developers pick Apache JMeter over its competitors, while “Fits nicely in a CI workflow” is the reason why k6 was chosen.

1st

Apache JMeter

435 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Apache JMeter

• •Requires no programming knowledge
• •Supports distributed
• •Open-source

2nd

k6

257 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose k6

• •Fits nicely in a CI workflow
• •Test scripts are written in javascript
• •Open-source

3rd

Gatling

244 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Gatling

• •Great detailed reports
• •Can run in cluster mode
• •Loadrunner

4th

Locust

191 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Locust

• •Hackable
• •Supports distributed
• •Open source

5th

AWS Device Farm

74 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose AWS Device Farm

• •1000 free minutes
• •Pay as you go pricing

6th

Loader.io

71 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Loader.io

• •Easy to use
• •Free tier
• •Heroku add-on

7th

BlazeMeter

68 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose BlazeMeter

• •I can run load tests without needing JMeter scripts.
• •Easy to prepare JMeter workers

8th

Google Lighthouse

43 stacks

9th

Blitz

43 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Blitz

• •Load testing

10th

Sitespeed.io

41 stacks