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BlazeMeter vs k6: What are the differences?

Developers describe BlazeMeter as "The Load Testing Platform for Developers". Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.
. On the other hand, k6 is detailed as "Developer centric open-source load and performance testing tool". It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

BlazeMeter and k6 belong to "Load and Performance Testing" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by BlazeMeter are:

  • 100% JMeter Compatible- Take full advantage of JMeter’s scripting capabilities or let our auto-scripting feature take care of the details.
  • Scalable and Realistic- Easily scale from 100 to 300,000+ concurrent users using realistic visitor behaviour and browser simulation.
  • Start Testing in 2 Minutes- Use up to 100 dedicated servers per test. No setup or installation required. Self-service and on-demand.

On the other hand, k6 provides the following key features:

  • Written in Go and JavaScript, built to integrate well into the modern developer workflow and automation pipelines
  • Primarily for load testing, it also works for functional testing of APIs and microservices with its powerful JS ES6 based scripting API
  • Straightforward CLI, sharing many UX aspects with the DevOps tools you already use

k6 is an open source tool with 5.57K GitHub stars and 287 GitHub forks. Here's a link to k6's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of BlazeMeter
Pros of k6
  • 10
    I can run load tests without needing JMeter scripts.
  • 3
    Easy to prepare JMeter workers
  • 13
    Fits nicely in a CI workflow
  • 11
    It's code-first
  • 11
    Test scripts are written in javascript
  • 11
    Open-source
  • 10
    Easy to use

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Cons of BlazeMeter
Cons of k6
  • 1
    Costly
  • 1
    UI centric
  • 3
    Requires bundling and transpiling to use npm packages

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What is BlazeMeter?

Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>

What is k6?

It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

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What are some alternatives to BlazeMeter and k6?
Flood IO
Performance testing with Flood increases customer satisfaction and confidence in your production apps and reduces business risk.
Gatling
Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.
Load Impact
It is performance testing platform brings performance testing to the developer’s turf. Developers of all skill levels are able to easily pick up manual testing with it and simply transition to the more modern principles of DevOps and performance testing automation.
Runscope
Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.
RedLine13
It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.
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