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Fiddler vs Runscope: What are the differences?
Fiddler: A free web debugging tool *. It is a free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform. It helps you debug web applications by capturing network traffic between the Internet and test computers. The tool enables you to inspect incoming and outgoing data to monitor and modify requests and responses before the browser receives them; *Runscope:** API Performance Monitoring. Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.
Fiddler and Runscope can be categorized as "API" tools.
Fitbit, Twilio, and Olo are some of the popular companies that use Runscope, whereas Fiddler is used by Skybox Security, Cloud Drive, and NeoQuant. Runscope has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Fiddler, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Fiddler
Pros of Runscope
- Great features17
- Easy to use15
- Nicely priced4
- Free plan4
- No install needed - runs on cloud2
- Decent2
- Collections1
- Dead simple and useful. Excellent1
- Awesome customer support1
- Import scripts from sources including Postman1
- Shareable Collections1
- Global & Collection level variables1
- Graphical view of response times historically1
- Integrations - StatusPage, PagerDuty, HipChat, Victorop1
- Run tests from multiple locations across globe1
- Schedule test collections to auto-run at intervals1
- Auto Re-run failed scheduled tests before notifying1
- Makes developing REST APIs easy1
- History feature - call history and response history1
- Restrict access by teams1
- Fully featured without looking cluttered1
- Can save and share scripts1