Cocos Creator vs GameBench

Cocos Creator is an open-source, cross-platform graphics engine and real-time 3D content-creation platform for 2D and 3D games and other interactive content. Its editor targets artists, game planners, and developers, and includes a plug-in system, animation editor, and visual scripting. JavaScript and TypeScript are supported, with TypeScript described as easy to use and debug. Projects can publish to the web and deploy natively to Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows. Native projects can be opened in Xcode, Android Studio, or Visual Studio for compiling, running, debugging, and publishing; some publishing options depend on the corresponding operating system. Extensions are available through Dashboard or the Cocos Store, or can be packaged and shared. Native builds can encrypt scripts into .jsc files and compress them. The editor and runtime are available at no charge, with official documentation, API references, tutorials, forums, and technical consultation listed.

GameBench provides tools for measuring, analyzing and optimizing game performance. With GameBench Pro, users connect an Android or iOS device, choose a game, measure its performance and upload results to a dashboard. GameBench Injector adds instrumentation to APK or IPA builds without requiring developer code changes. Metrics include frame rate, CPU, GPU, memory, power, battery, network usage, screenshots and thermal throttling. The web dashboard stores and visualizes sessions, trends, apps, devices and collections for comparison. Its API supports token creation, session searches, session details and time-series metrics; Jira integration can create engineering tickets linked to sessions. Dashboard accounts support SSO and LDAP, and companies can require multi-factor authentication. Enterprise customers can run a private dashboard on their own infrastructure. The native SDK supports Android 5.0+, 64-bit iOS 10.0+ and tvOS 10.0+, for hardware platforms only. Pricing is on request, and a 28-day trial is listed. The trial includes 30 minutes of Pro testing, unlimited sessions and SDK sessions, full API access, and all metrics and analytics.