Pricing is dependent on what you're referring to. If you're talking about the cloud, it's likely competitive. However, if you're talking about the on-premise version, professional or enterprise licenses are required. Prices are on the high side. They are not cheap.

That's one of the benefits of the cloud. The most important aspect of the cloud is that it applies to everything. They take care of the inconvenience of maintaining the infrastructure required to support your performance testing environment, regardless of the application.

I'm familiar with both. I have been with LoadRunner long enough to understand what it's like to manage one of those environments because the cloud didn't exist ten years ago. That's significant time and effort savings for the customer, but you pay for it.

If they don't give it away for free, you have everyone who will have someone do all the maintenance for you, such as 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 money, and it is not free. There must be a careful balancing act between how much you will use the cloud and what you will do on-premise.

It is neither costly nor cheap. It is not too high and not too low. I know the price of other tools, and LoadRunner Cloud's price is in the medium range.

The pay-as-you-go licensing model included in our cloud migration is a valuable feature. It ensures we only pay for what we use, eliminating unnecessary fees during periods of low activity.

The pricing for OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is average.

LoadRunner always had expensive pricing. At my company, we used to evaluate LoadRunner, but we stuck with Silk Performer because its pricing was always better in the past. I do feel that I got a fair deal this time. Our value-added reseller and our sales guy worked hard to give us a fair deal. I feel that we got a fair deal.

We did not go for the pay-as-you-go deal. I did an upfront package. I prefer that. I want to know what my costs are.

When we compare the price of LoadRunner Cloud with that of products by other SaaS providers, it is a little bit on the higher side.

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is economical. However, it is expensive compared to other tools.

The solution is a bit expensive. The pay-as-you-go model offered by LoadRunner Cloud is important to us, especially when considering the cost-effectiveness of performance testing.

We make use of virtual user hours. We buy time in the LoadRunner Cloud. It costs around $80,000.

I don't think there are any additional costs to standard licensing.

There is no monthly or yearly cost but rather, the fees are based on the amount of traffic that you use. It is difficult to predict the costs until after you have begun using it.

I'm not aware of the cost. I don't handle that aspect of the product.

My understanding, however, is that it is a little bit pricey. 

It's a subscription-based, pay-per-user license. I wouldn't say it's expensive. 

Because it was an on-premise license, it was a costly affair. Only certain stakeholders could use it. Now, it is enterprise-wide, we can have any number of cloud users performing the load testing because it is pay-per-user.

The product must improve its price. The solution’s price is considerably high. It is the highest in the market.

The solution is expensive. There should be a version that optimizes the price-to-performance ratio for the service package.

The pricing is very reasonable and the licensing is straightforward.

You decide on the number of virtual users you will need to support multiple runs or for a year and purchase that quality of virtual-user hours. We chose to procure this solution via the AWS Marketplace because of remote site testing and low cost.

HP StormRunner load is SAAS offerings so the initial setup costs are very minimal when compared to the traditional approach (no or minimal capex ), and the day to day costs would be purely driven by the duration and number of virtual users required to simulate the traffic.

There pricing and licensing options are very aggressive, but the holiday discount brought down the price further.