OpenText LoadRunner Professional Pricing
It is reasonable. We pay the cost, but we have everything. We have a big set of licenses for SAP and other applications. We have all kinds of licenses.
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Shivam Paul
Lead Performance Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Shift-left is very new to our organization because we have been using professional/community licenses. We are trying to use enterprise now because, with professionals, it's a one-machine license. It's a single user.
We pay a lot for licensing. But the incentive is the support we get with it, that we pay once, and we are set.
View full review »This is not an open-source product. You do have to pay for the solution. However, there are open-source solutions available.
The cloud is probably competitive in terms of pricing. However, if you're talking about the on-premise stuff, the professional licenses or the enterprise licenses are on the high side of prices. They're not they're not cheap.
The biggest thing about the cloud, and, for that matter, whatever application you're talking about, is that they take care of the headache of you maintaining the infrastructure needed to support your performance testing environment.
I've been with LoadRunner long enough to know what it's like to maintain one of those types of environments since the cloud wasn't around ten years ago. Therefore, I've witnessed that the cloud offers significant savings in time and effort from a customer's point of view, even if you pay for it.
That said, they don't give it away for free. You have everyone that's doing all the maintenance for you, including setting up your servers and making sure they use to start up the servers appropriately with the right level of software and keep the software up to date and all that stuff. That costs, and that's not free. There's a careful balancing act you have to have between how much you're going to use the cloud, and what you're gonna do on-premise.
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional
April 2024
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The licensing model is complex. You have to pick up the protocol and the number of concurrent users, and then select the level of concurrent users. For example, there would be one price for 100 to 500 users and another for 500 to 2000 users. If you choose two protocols, then you will have to pay twice the amount depending on the number of concurrent users.
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Vinod Patil
Senior Manager - Performance Architect at Publicis Sapient
The licensing is on a yearly basis and is relatively expensive.
View full review »The pricing model and the software licensing model could be better.
It is a high-cost investment, particularly for companies with small budgets or limited testing needs.
View full review »It is on the higher side cost-wise, but the usability is good. If they reduced the cost, it would help smaller organizations like ours to take advantage of the features it offers.
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Dibyajipan Sethi
Performance Task Consultant at PCS Systemtechnik GmbH
The price is a bit on the high side, but it is still affordable.
View full review »LoadRunner Professional's licensing costs are on the higher side, apart from the Community Edition. The Community Edition is free but limited to fifty users; after that, you have to pay for extra users.
View full review »Micro Focus offers several options for licensing, it really depends on the number of users you have and your use case.
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Arssy Hasyir Nursidiq
Script analyst at Alpha Citra Siber Indonesia
The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement.
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reviewer2077479
Senior Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
When you compare the cost of other tools such as NeoLoad and LoadNinja, the cost of LoadRunner is on the expensive side. As a result, we are currently considering going with NeoLoad.
View full review »LoadRunner is a little more expensive than other solutions, but there are no hidden costs.
View full review »There's an Enterprise Professional and Cloud option as well. The cloud option is maybe called StormRunner. However, most clients choose on-premises deployments. I use the professional version.
I'd rate the solution five out of ten as it is more expensive.
There is a free trial for up to 50 users that companies should try.
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reviewer1399428
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I am not aware of the pricing.
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Shivakumar-Gutte
Senior Manager at Capgemini
Pricing depends on our choices because it depends on what type of protocol we are getting, what type of licensing we are getting, and what kind of relationships we have with HP and Micro Focus. We can't say how much it will be based on that.
I cannot say because we are technical managers and I am not involved in any costing or pricing issues. I am not involved with any pricing.
I would rate the pricing a one out of five. It is expensive.
View full review »I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1576428
Engineer 2 at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It is very expensive compared to the other tools available in the market.
I'd rate it a two out of five in terms of affordability.
LoadRunner is more expensive than some competing products.
The pricing is a little too high. However, everything is mostly included in the initial license. It depends on how many nodes you want to set up. This is what determines some of the additional costs.
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SumitMathur
Manager sap at Southwest Gas Corporation
OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise's pricing is reasonable.
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Venu Cherukuri
Lead Solution Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
I would still consider LoadRunner as an expensive tool and you get a LoadRunner and the Performance Center.
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reviewer2253501
Performance Test Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
I have been using the paid version of the product.
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Rajesh Anampally
Performance Architect at valuelabs LLP
On a scale of one to ten, where one is low and ten is a high price, I rate the solution a five. So, many things can be done with open-source solutions rather than Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. But LoadRunner provides scalability and stability, which helps save the money of our customers.
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reviewer1454061
Performance Test Line manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There is an annual license required to use Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. There are not any additional costs other than the licensing fees to use it.
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GauravArora
Lead Test Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The licensing fees are based on the number of users. There is also a free community edition, but it depends on what protocol you're using and how many users you want. Essentially, the licensing fees are based on the need.
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reviewer1445541
Test Automation, DevOps & Performance Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This is not a cheap product.
View full review »We have our license pool with 100 concurrent users. I like the concurrent license model. I don't have any problem scaling.
View full review »The set up costs depend on the protocol type (there are standard and premium types), the number of virtual users being simulated, the terms, and the number of, load generator machines that are needed. Then there is an annual support maintenance fee that allows for free upgrade and access to the support functions.
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reviewer1322280
Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
There is a licensing cost that is expensive. There is also the Enterprise version of the software which allows other features that the Professional does not, such as, license sharing.
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reviewer1415043
Senior Load & Performance Test Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product.
View full review »I don't have any information about how much it costs to run the solution. I know it is expensive, but I don't handle the accounting, so I'm unsure how much our organization actually pays. I don't believe there are other costs beyond the standard licensing fee.
There are different licence tiers. We have the maximum, so so don't have to deal with any limitations at any time.
There's two types of users on the solution. One is the actual testers. In our organization, we have twenty people using this load. The others are virtual users. The licensing is dependent upon the virtual user and you are charged according to how many virtual users are using the application. Around twenty users are virtual in my organization.
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QAmgr9845
QA Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
View full review »The license cost is much more compared to other tools available, but it will give you a complete package for load testing your application.
View full review »The fee for LoadRunner Professional is very high - about US$500 per user.
View full review »The cost depends greatly on the needs of the testing engagement.
The free community licence (permanent for 50 VUsers) available from Version 12 is very useful. For small tests this is sufficient and there is no licence cost to use it.
The community licence is excellent for training as well, you get full functionality for as long as you like.
View full review »It is very costly, but LoadRunner works perfectly. It fits our needs in the way we use it, but you should make sure your use justifies the cost.
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Desil Ponnatt
Technical Leader at Valtech
Look at the options on other software which are not as pricey as LoadRunner. It's true that LoadRunner has all the features and a lot of ways to help, but then not all companies require such extensive tools. That is where I would probably suggest asking the pricing and the features integrated.
View full review »The solution's pricing is expensive.
View full review »The price is a bit high but if you procure the HPE LoadRunner you will get many benefits such as excellent technical support, a wide range of supported protocols, a great document library and easy help from the technical communities for your problems.
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reviewer1182177
Assistant Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The licensing of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. If it can be easier and the concurrent run can be included with the current total number of users, it would be helpful.
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reviewer1221264
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
There's the licensing fee, and then additional fees on top of that as well.
View full review »Pricing is the only thing which make people think many times before purchasing this product.
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText LoadRunner Professional. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.