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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.
Pros of BlazeMeter
- I can run load tests without needing JMeter scripts.10
- Easy to prepare JMeter workers3
Pros of Gatling
- Great detailed reports6
- Can run in cluster mode5
- Loadrunner5
- Scala based3
- Load test as code2
- Faster0
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Cons of BlazeMeter
- Costly1
- UI centric1
Cons of Gatling
- Steep Learning Curve2
- Hard to test non-supported protocols1
- Not distributed0