Performance Testing Software
Alternatives to WebLOAD
The tools Specifiction weighs against WebLOAD, from its list of performance testing software, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.
- 01 Keysight Eggplant Test
It suits teams automating tests across multiple application types, including complex, packaged or mainframe systems.
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.0 Visit Specs - 02 Loadster Synthetic Monitoring
Loadster suits teams that need scheduled checks for public websites, web apps, or APIs, including multi-step journeys and checks from multiple locations.
From $29/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.0 Visit Specs - 03 LoadFocus
LoadFocus suits engineering teams, developers, web agencies, product owners and DevOps engineers who need load, page-speed, API or UI testing.
From $15.80/mo Free plan Web · API · Browser extension8.9 Visit Specs - 04 LoadView
LoadView suits teams testing websites, web applications or APIs, including organizations that need to generate load within a private network.
From $199/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.8 Visit Specs - 05
Artillery Artillery suits application developers, test and QA engineers, and operations or SRE teams responsible for production backend systems.
From $199/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.6 Visit Specs - 06
Apache JMeter JMeter suits users who need free load or stress testing across supported protocols and can work with a Java-based tool.
Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted8.4 Visit Specs - 07
BlazeMeter BlazeMeter may suit teams coordinating performance, functional, and API testing with CI/CD systems or simulating dependent services.
From $8.25/mo Free trial Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.3 Visit Specs - 08
Gatling Gatling suits teams that want to author load tests in code, through a no-code generator or by importing Postman tests.
From €89/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.3 Visit Specs - 09 OpenText Core Performance Engineering
It suits developers, QA specialists, and project managers on Agile teams who need performance testing across application types and cloud regions.
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.3 Visit Specs - 10
Apica LoadTest Apica LoadTest suits teams testing application capacity and performance across web, cloud, APIs, and mobile devices.
Free trial Web · Linux · iOS · Android8.2 Visit Specs - 11 Avidemux Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.2 Visit Specs
- 12 Fortio
Fortio suits developers and operators who need self-hosted HTTP or gRPC load and API testing.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.2 Visit Specs - 13
Blackfire.io From €33.25/mo Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.1 Visit Specs - 14
Cavisson NetStorm Free trial Web · Linux · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 15
HammerDB It suits teams benchmarking supported databases on Windows, Linux or self-hosted infrastructure.
Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 16 Loader.io From $99.95/mo Free plan Web · API8.0 Visit Specs
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OctoPerf From €649/mo Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 18 Taurus
Taurus suits teams automating performance or functional tests across documented test engines and CI systems.
Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 19
LoadForge From $5.58/mo Free trial Web · API7.8 Visit Specs - 20
LoadNinja Free trial Web · API7.8 Visit Specs - 21
LoadStrike From $269.10/mo Free plan API · Self-hosted7.8 Visit Specs - 22 Vegeta
Vegeta suits developers and teams needing constant-rate HTTP or API load tests, including distributed runs.
Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · API7.8 Visit Specs - 23 Locust
Locust suits developers who can author test scenarios in Python and need to observe HTTP or other protocol performance.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.7 Visit Specs - 24
Speedscale Speedscale suits teams building cloud-native applications that want to replay production traffic, test APIs, or generate load tests.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.7 Visit Specs - 25 StresStimulus Free plan Windows · Self-hosted7.7 Visit Specs
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Xceptance LoadTest Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · API7.6 Visit Specs - 27 Tsung Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted7.5 Visit Specs
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WAPT Pro Free trial Windows · Self-hosted7.4 Visit Specs - 29 Grafana k6
It suits teams running load, stress, browser-based, distributed, or API tests on Linux, especially those needing the listed tracing, logging, or profiling features.
From $19/mo Free plan Linux7.3 Visit Specs - 30 Goose Self-hosted7.1 Visit Specs
WebLOAD, head to head
- WebLOAD vs Keysight Eggplant Test
- WebLOAD vs Loadster Synthetic Monitoring
- WebLOAD vs LoadFocus
- WebLOAD vs LoadView
- WebLOAD vs Artillery
- WebLOAD vs Apache JMeter
- WebLOAD vs BlazeMeter
- WebLOAD vs Gatling
- WebLOAD vs OpenText Core Performance Engineering
- WebLOAD vs Apica LoadTest
- WebLOAD vs Avidemux
- WebLOAD vs Fortio