Apica LoadTest vs Speedscale

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.

Speedscale is a hybrid API and load-testing product that uses captured production traffic to test changes in Kubernetes. It can replay requests, create service virtualizations that mimic flaky or third-party dependencies, and generate load tests from captured traffic. Load tests track latency and throughput against budgets; the product supports stress testing and distributed load. Listed pipeline integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Google Cloud Deploy, AWS CodeBuild, Bitbucket Pipelines, TeamCity, and CircleCI. Other listed integrations include GitHub Actions, k6, and Postman. The full stack can run inside a customer’s AWS, GCP, or Azure account, keeping traffic within that VPC. Speedscale offers tools to redact sensitive data and says leaked sensitive data can be deleted retroactively. The company says it completed an AICPA SOC 2 Type I audit. Its free proxymock tool provides unlimited local mocking, basic traffic recording, and a desktop CLI for local development. Proxymock has native command-line options for macOS, Linux, and Windows.