We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and Katalon Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is scalable."
"This solution is easier to use than any other tool in the market; there is not even a requirement to learn a lot of scripting in order to use it."
"A lot of things are valuable. It is free. It has a lot of features, such as report generation and integration with CI/CD, which makes it very competitive with the other paid solutions available in the market. It is a good solution."
"The distributed load testing is very good with Apache JMeter."
"The most valuable feature for us is the available information on the forums and to be able to discuss and get answers from the people that are involved in using this tool."
"The metrics part of it and the ability to write your custom code to do some specific tests in the performance testing space are the most valuable features."
"It is scalable. You can scale up to 1,000 users in JMeter. If you can put up four slave servers, you can easily ramp up to 1,000 users."
"Very user-friendly and easy to use."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward and easy enough to complete."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"One of the features that I like is Object Recognition. It worked very well, and it allowed me to create a dynamic expert based on my requirements."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"The most valuable feature is that the browser and the API testing is available in a single tool, and I don't have to look at other options."
"If the solution was GUI based, I believe that it would be more versatile."
"Improving JMeter's sync time would be beneficial."
"The UI of the solution needs to be better. The UI takes up a lot of our bandwidth."
"The plug-ins make the reports heavy and they have to be run in non-GUI mode."
"It's not easy to get the data from one place or to do customizations."
"The UI could be better."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"JMeter is lagging when it comes to GUI performance testing because we need to install some third-party plugins for recording the GUI script, and the performance isn't very reliable."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"During parallel execution, some reports are randomly switched."
"The tool's maintenance is very difficult since they do not follow call by value or call by reference. Due to this, any change happening is not reflected throughout all the test cases. There are some issues with data parameterization as well."
Apache JMeter is ranked 3rd in API Testing Tools with 82 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 41 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional and ReadyAPI, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Eggplant Test. See our Apache JMeter vs. Katalon Studio report.
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