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BlazeMeter vs Gatling: What are the differences?

Developers describe BlazeMeter as "The Load Testing Platform for Developers". Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.
. On the other hand, Gatling is detailed as "open-source load testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty". Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support..

BlazeMeter and Gatling can be categorized as "Load and Performance Testing" tools.

Gatling is an open source tool with 4.28K GitHub stars and 912 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gatling's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Gatling has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 13 developers stacks; compared to BlazeMeter, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Pros of BlazeMeter
Pros of Gatling
  • 10
    I can run load tests without needing JMeter scripts.
  • 3
    Easy to prepare JMeter workers
  • 6
    Great detailed reports
  • 5
    Can run in cluster mode
  • 5
    Loadrunner
  • 3
    Scala based
  • 2
    Load test as code
  • 0
    Faster

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Cons of BlazeMeter
Cons of Gatling
  • 1
    Costly
  • 1
    UI centric
  • 2
    Steep Learning Curve
  • 1
    Hard to test non-supported protocols
  • 0
    Not distributed

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What is BlazeMeter?

Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>

What is Gatling?

Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.

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