Compare Apache JMeter vs. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The solution is free. You don't need to worry about licensing costs." "The solution offers a lot of plug-ins and a huge continuously developing community that is regularly offering new features and plug-ins." "API testing, Database Testing, and MQ testing can be done with ease." "The ease of use is the solution's most valuable feature. Also, the ability to easily create test cases is also very good. It's easy to just ramp up on the solution." "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." "JMeter is easy to use for a user who doesn't have too much knowledge of programming or certain languages." "The most valuable feature in JMeter is the Thread Group, which helps us to see whether the performance is good." "The most valuable features are the integration with Jenkins and the reporting." | "LoadRunner is a very systematic tool for anyone to use. Even someone who is actually a first time user of LoadRunner can actually get a lot of benefit out of the tool." "It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance." "Very useful for finding out how the system responds to load, stress, and normal situations, as well as benchmarking with other industry competitors. It also improved our response time, memory delegation, and CPU delegation. In addition, we used LoadRunner to optimize our database and website." "The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period." "The initial setup and installation of the software were very easy and straightforward." "The solution is quite stable." "The load testing, reporting, and scripting features are all valuable features." "I like the user interface. I like the way we can divide our scenarios and can tune them. The integration with the quality center is great. These features are really good." |
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"The user interface is a little bit tricky." "The solution could use some sort of educational features to offer tips and hints to help users navigate it better. They should improve the manuals and help files." "The tool should be made a bit more robust, and better support should be made available." "In future releases, it would be helpful if there was an integration with ALM Octane." "There is some work to be done with the integration." "Considering the kinds of tests we are performing here, where we launch several tests at the same time as a batch request, JMeter is not the best tool for the job. Those kinds of things could be done easily with other tools, like T6." "Automation is difficult in JMeter." "The interface could be made more user-friendly." | "If they can make LoadRunner more comprehensive, it would really help." "Support for Microsoft Dynamics needs improvement." "There is room for improvement of the pilot processing, the dump analysis, and forwarding results based on the dump analysis. We have a generator, root controller, different agents, and an analyzer, so all of these are very important when it comes to LoadRunner." "The price of this solution should be cheaper." "Sometimes we are not be able to click on some of the buttons due to the screen mismatching and compatibility issues." "I guess scalability becomes a problem when you use things like TruClients." "The solution needs to reduce its pricing. Right now, it's quite expensive." "The solution uses a lot of memory and then it dies. It's difficult to work with the solution sometimes when you run a scenario it dies. They need to make the solution lighter somehow." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"Free" "I switched to Apache because it is free. Other tools are much too expensive and can cost up to $50,000 a year if you are looking at commercial options." "This is an open-source solution, and there are no fees." "This is an open-source product." "I was using the free version of the software." "In terms of open-source adoption, it is completely free." | "I don't know the licensing cost, but I think that you would get a discount for normal usage. I think there are different yearly options for different types of usage. It is not only how many users, but also whether it is shareable or not and other criteria involved in each feature. There are additional fees for the users and hardware linked to the processing." "The licensing fees are based on the number of users." "It is competing with other products that may cost significantly less or may be available as open-source. Because of that it is relatively expensive." "LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product." "This is not a cheap product." "There is a licensing cost that is expensive." More Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: When there's a high number of TPS I can achieve more transactions per seconds given the hyper-limitations. Top Answer: This is an open-source product. Top Answer: We have some scenarios for diameter load testing where TPS requirements are very high, 30K or 40K TPS. In the telco area, this is for simulating mobile usage. However, diameter load testing can be… more » | Top Answer: LoadRunner is the best load testing tool, however, it is very expensive. The factors to purchase are:
1. It can simulate load a large number of concurrent users using small HW resources (CPU memory)… more » |
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Views 15,009 Comparisons 12,504 Reviews 14 Average Words per Review 483 Rating 7.6 | Views 16,126 Comparisons 11,609 Reviews 15 Average Words per Review 492 Rating 7.8 |
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Also Known As | |
| JMeter | Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner |
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| Apache | Micro Focus |
Overview | |
Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources, Web dynamic applications. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. | LoadRunner is the Micro Focus industry-standard software solution for application performance and load testing. LoadRunner stresses your entire system to isolate and identify potential client, network, and server bottlenecks, supporting performance testing of new technologies together with your existing, legacy applications. |
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Sample Customers | |
| AOL, Orbitz, Innopath Software, PrepMe, Sapient, Corporate Express Australia, CSIRO, Ephibian, Talis, DATACOM, ALALOOP, eFusion, Panter, Sourcepole, University of Western Cape | JetBlue, GOME, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, RMIT University, Virgin Media |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm33% Computer Software Company20% University7% Comms Service Provider7% Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider18% Financial Services Firm6% Media Company4% | Financial Services Firm28% Computer Software Company24% Comms Service Provider12% Retailer8% Computer Software Company45% Comms Service Provider14% Government6% Financial Services Firm6% |
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Small Business24% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise53% | Small Business20% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise69% Small Business6% Midsize Enterprise5% Large Enterprise89% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache JMeter vs. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
456,812 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Apache JMeter is ranked 2nd in Load Testing Tools with 15 reviews while Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is ranked 1st in Load Testing Tools with 16 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.6, while Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "Good performance and easy to configure but could use better UI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional writes "Good synchronization capabilities but pilot processing needs improvement". Apache JMeter is most compared with Postman, BlazeMeter, LoadUI Pro, Neotys NeoLoad and Katalon Studio, whereas Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud, Neotys NeoLoad, Silk Test and BlazeMeter. See our Apache JMeter vs. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional report.
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