Apache JMeter vs Flood IO vs Loader.io

Overview

Loader.io

Stacks73

Followers173

Votes18

Flood IO

Stacks21

Followers70

Votes5

Apache JMeter

Stacks440

Followers285

Votes10

Detailed Comparison

Loader.io	Flood IO	Apache JMeter
Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.	Performance testing with Flood increases customer satisfaction and confidence in your production apps and reduces business risk.	It is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.
Share Graphs and Stats- anytime, anywhere;GUI or API- load test how you want	Browser-based load testing; JMeter load testing; Gatling load testing; Detailed reporting; on-premise; multi-cloud; AWS load testing	-
Statistics
Stacks 73	Stacks 21	Stacks 440
Followers 173	Followers 70	Followers 285
Votes 18	Votes 5	Votes 10
Pros & Cons
Pros 9 Easy to use 6 Free tier 3 Heroku add-on	Pros 2 Great feature set 2 Affordable 1 Easy to use	Pros 5 Requires no programming knowledge 3 Supports distributed 2 Open-source Cons 1 It's GUI-first 1 Too complicated
Integrations
cloudControl	Travis CI GitHub New Relic Jenkins Slack CircleCI Amazon API Gateway AWS IAM Flowdock	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Loader.io, Flood IO, Apache JMeter?

k6

It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

Locust

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

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.

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>

RedLine13

It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.

AWS Device Farm

Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors.

Blitz

Build bulletproof, scalable solutions with Blitz - a simple and fun service for load testing web apps and APIs in the cloud. Blitz offers powerful yet simple capabilities including continuous monitoring, performance testing and remediation. Blitz enables you to instantly burst up to 50,000 concurrent users against your app in seconds from multiple points of presence around the world.

LoadNinja

It is  a  cloud-based platform for engineers and performance professionals who load test web applications. It makes load testing simple and fast. Test your website and web apps on real browsers, in the cloud, without the need for dynamic correlation.

Artillery

It is a modern, open-source, powerful & easy-to-use performance testing toolkit. Use it to ship scalable applications that stay performant & resilient under high load. It prioritizes developer productivity and happiness and follows the “batteries-included” philosophy.