Apica LoadTest vs LoadFocus

Apica LoadTest creates, runs, and analyzes capacity and performance tests for web and cloud applications. Its workflow covers scripting, setup, building, execution, analysis, and reporting. Users can create or upload HTTP/S load-test scripts, select geographic test clusters, and work through a browser portal without local software downloads. The portal provides managed infrastructure, test execution and scheduling, reporting and analysis, and collaboration storage. Apica says its premium load test network supports tests of up to 2,000,000 concurrent users. Documentation also describes device testing for iPhone, Android, iPad, and Windows, including native mobile applications. Example integrations include AWS Code Pipeline, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. LoadTest integrates with ZebraTester for exchanging scripts and results; ZebraTester can also run standalone on customer infrastructure. Apica offers full-service projects in which its experts design, script, and execute tests and work with customers on performance analysis and improvement. A blog page invites users to start a 30-day full-featured trial. The Self Service Portal is subscription-based by the month, but no price is listed.

LoadFocus is a cloud platform for load testing, website page-speed testing, API monitoring and front-end UI testing. Load tests can use JMeter.jmx files or k6 JavaScript scripts; users can also describe a test in plain English and have the service generate a script in either format. The maker says a test can scale to more than 20,000 virtual concurrent users. Charts report response time, latency, hits and throughput per second, standard deviation, and the 50th, 90th and 99th percentiles. A Chrome extension and Jenkins CI plugin support creating or scheduling tests and checking results, while direct reporting integrations are listed for Datadog and Azure Application Insights. Customers can choose EU or US data storage regions. LoadFocus has free plans for API monitoring and load testing, and a 7-day trial is listed. Paid plans start at $19/mo. Plan test-run limits apply: users who reach an allowance must upgrade to unlock more runs. The maker presents it for engineering teams, including developers, web agencies, product owners and DevOps engineers.