Apache JMeter vs Flood IO vs Locust

Overview

Flood IO

Stacks21

Followers70

Votes5

Locust

Stacks174

Followers317

Votes51

GitHub Stars27.0K

Forks3.1K

Apache JMeter

Stacks440

Followers285

Votes10

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Detailed Comparison

Flood IO	Locust	Apache JMeter
Performance testing with Flood increases customer satisfaction and confidence in your production apps and reduces business risk.	Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.	It is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.
Browser-based load testing; JMeter load testing; Gatling load testing; Detailed reporting; on-premise; multi-cloud; AWS load testing	Define user behaviour in code;Distributed & scalable;Proven & battle tested	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 27.0K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 3.1K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 21	Stacks 174	Stacks 440
Followers 70	Followers 317	Followers 285
Votes 5	Votes 51	Votes 10
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Affordable 2 Great feature set 1 Easy to use	Pros 15 Hackable 11 Supports distributed 7 Open source 6 Easy to setup 6 Easy to use Cons 1 Bad design	Pros 5 Requires no programming knowledge 3 Supports distributed 2 Open-source Cons 1 It's GUI-first 1 Too complicated
Integrations
Travis CI GitHub New Relic Jenkins Slack CircleCI Amazon API Gateway AWS IAM Flowdock	Python	No integrations available

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