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BlazeMeter vs Runscope: What are the differences?
BlazeMeter: 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.
; Runscope: API Performance Monitoring. Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.
BlazeMeter and Runscope are primarily classified as "Load and Performance Testing" and "API" tools respectively.
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, Runscope provides the following key features:
- Runscope Radar: Automatically monitor your APIs from around the globe. Integrates with PagerDuty, New Relic Insights, Keen IO, HipChat, Slack and more. Test complete API workflows with powerful assertions and notifications.
- Runscope Metrics: API performance and usage reports.
- Runscope API Traffic Inspector: Log and view API calls from any language or framework to any API to solve integration problems.
"I can run load tests without needing JMeter scripts. " is the primary reason why developers consider BlazeMeter over the competitors, whereas "Great features" was stated as the key factor in picking Runscope.
Fitbit, Twilio, and Olo are some of the popular companies that use Runscope, whereas BlazeMeter is used by MIT, Nike, and Day Delegate Limited. Runscope has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to BlazeMeter, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of BlazeMeter
- I can run load tests without needing JMeter scripts.10
- Easy to prepare JMeter workers3
Pros of Runscope
- Great features17
- Easy to use15
- Nicely priced4
- Free plan4
- No install needed - runs on cloud2
- Decent2
- Collections1
- Dead simple and useful. Excellent1
- Awesome customer support1
- Import scripts from sources including Postman1
- Shareable Collections1
- Global & Collection level variables1
- Graphical view of response times historically1
- Integrations - StatusPage, PagerDuty, HipChat, Victorop1
- Run tests from multiple locations across globe1
- Schedule test collections to auto-run at intervals1
- Auto Re-run failed scheduled tests before notifying1
- Makes developing REST APIs easy1
- History feature - call history and response history1
- Restrict access by teams1
- Fully featured without looking cluttered1
- Can save and share scripts1
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Cons of BlazeMeter
- Costly1
- UI centric1