Akamai CloudTest vs Apache JMeter comparison

Akamai and Apache are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. Akamai is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Apache is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.1. Akamai holds a 3.5% mindshare in PTT, compared to Apache’s 10.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Apache users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

Akamai CloudTest and Apache JMeter compete in the load testing tools category, with each offering unique strengths. Akamai CloudTest appears to have the upper hand when it comes to real-time analytics and comprehensive testing scenarios, whereas Apache JMeter stands out for its flexibility and community support.

Features: Akamai CloudTest provides real-time insights and can handle complex test scenarios across distributed networks. It supports a variety of testing types, including load, performance, and usability. Apache JMeter offers great scripting capabilities, supports performance testing at scale, and is backed by a large selection of plugins, making it highly extensible.

Room for Improvement: Akamai CloudTest could benefit from enhanced flexibility in scripting capabilities and reduced costs. Greater compatibility with different testing tools would be a valuable addition. Apache JMeter can improve by enhancing its real-time data visualization and user interface and expanding its customer support offerings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai CloudTest offers a seamless deployment process with strong customer support, assisting throughout setup and execution phases. Apache JMeter provides ease of use through its open-source model, facilitating integration and customizations with broad community-based support.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai CloudTest generally involves higher initial setup costs but promises significant ROI for enterprises needing extensive testing infrastructure. Apache JMeter, being open-source, has minimal setup costs and offers excellent ROI for those who can maximize its extensive features without commercial fees.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai CloudTest

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

8th

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Apache JMeter

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

1st

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

API Testing Tools (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Akamai CloudTest is 3.5%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache JMeter is 10.4%, down from 22.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Performance Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Apache JMeter	10.4%
Akamai CloudTest	3.5%
Other	86.1%

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Featured Reviews

Vinod Patil

Senior Manager - Performance Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Is user-friendly and offers live monitoring

Extending the same cloud tool to make it app native so that it can help with device performance testing towards HTTP requests and responses. If you can have a front-end tool like Google's Core Web Vitals, it would be great. If you have some integration with Google's Core Web Vitals, it would be great. I want the tool to have IP spoofing because whenever you do load testing, you will have a little bit of static IP based on a particular load generator. If we have an option of just making the real-time scenario, like having IP spoofing, and the range of IPs dynamically gets changed with the request just to mimic the real-time user behavior, then it would be a good improvement. Having integration to APM tools, like Dynatrace or AppDynamics, the way we have in the load tools, would be good.

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Raja Rao Malkari

Principal Performance Architect at Tecnotree Corporation

Have built custom performance test scripts and integrated them into automated pipelines seamlessly

Apache JMeter has its own pros and cons when compared to other tools. It is easy to use the tool and it has open-source capability so we can build our custom scripts and execute them. It provides other capabilities, such as integrating a database and connecting to other application servers for monitoring and related functions. We use dynamic HTML reporting, which helps us in testing analysis by pinpointing the bottlenecks based on the reports. We can identify the specific areas that need attention, troubleshoot them, and report to the development team. The user-friendly GUI for creating and managing tests makes it very easy to drag and drop samplers. For example, if you want the HTTP sampler, you can drag and drop it and use it. For configurations, we have other samplers. For results, we have the view results samplers that we can also drag and drop. The UI is good in comparison with other tools. Regarding integration with CI/CD pipelines, we can create Apache JMeter scripts and use the Docker image. From the image, whatever scripting we have done can be connected. We can use the CI/CD pipelines and connect them with Jenkins tools and GitHub. Then we can create the pipelines and automate the end-to-end flow. For connecting Jenkins to Apache JMeter, JMeter plugins are available, and we have used them. Apache JMeter also has some third-party plugins, which are not native samplers. If we want to use custom test executions, we definitely use all the different plugins available in Apache JMeter. The capability to simulate users has impacted testing resources and outcomes as Apache JMeter is based on Java, which has a limit to the users in a particular load generator. Apache JMeter provides distributed load testing where you can connect multiple PCs in a master and slave concept, allowing you to pump the load with any number of users. In the past, I have done load testing with 10,000 users by connecting the Apache JMeter distributed network in BlazeMeter. There is a cloud version available, the updated BlazeMeter, and I used that. It is very easy to launch load generators in BlazeMeter, and then we can run the test, scaling up beyond 10,000 users.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool is very user-friendly, so you can save a lot of time in terms of your preparation activities."

"The agents on the cloud have been extremely valuable for us."

"The level of support is quite good and the integration is also very flexible."

"Akamai Cloud Test provides detailed analysis during load and performance testing which helps in determining different components of our platforms and external integrations with other vendors needs optimization (i.e.) it highlights exact API call with request, response, error, TTFB to identify root cause of failure which in turn helps in improving time to resolution and prioritize change requests."

"The solution was easy to set-up and much more easy and intuitive to build performance tests."

"From my own experience, if you're talking about load testing and performance testing then definitely you should go for CloudTest. Because when we compared CloudTest with Performance Center, cost wise it was a better solution. It is easy to use as well, and you can definitely get an automation engineer or a performance engineer with very little exposure to any programming or scripting language such as JavaScript. I would definitely recommend this solution and would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten."

"This is an awesome performance testing tool for web based applications, able to generate load multiple geographies, dynamic ramp-up to any levels of virtual users."

"Soasta CloudTest is an integral part of our performance testing strategy and key in generating load across geography."

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"I recommend JMeter if your goal is to design some stress tests."

"Very easy to download and setup the entire infrastructure (Controller + LGs)."

"If you play within those limitations, it is a really great tool."

"It gives accurate results and recommendations that we can implement to enhance the performance of websites."

"API testing, Database Testing, and MQ testing can be done with ease."

"Apache JMeter is mainly used for performance testing, and this is one of the prime features that we use in any of the performance testing aspects."

"It is easy to set up."

"JMeter's open-source nature allows us to create scripts easily, add any number of users during load tests, and handle large volumes of data without additional cost."

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Cons

"The UI gets stuck sometimes; pulling huge load test data takes time and the UI often gets stuck."

"It's a manual process to whitelist respective internal IPs in coordination with web operations team to access Soasta. Availability of any standardized tool from Soasta will make setup process easy."

"In terms of improvement, I think integration of these tools with the leading EPM tools would be good. It would help to seamlessly integrate to Dynatrace or AppDynamics to understand what the profiling looks like when generating a load."

"I couldn't say, as I haven't used it outside the training or applied it to any project yet."

"The test clip should be more user-friendly."

"If we have an option of just making the real-time scenario, like having IP spoofing, and the range of IPs dynamically gets changed with the request just to mimic the real-time user behavior, then it would be a good improvement."

"Resource consumption also needs to be worked on. When we generate a thousand or two thousand concurrent users, we need to optimize the load generator resource utilization."

"Akamai cloud test integration into our current CI/CD pipelines (i.e.) identify and resolve the issues during the sprint phase which helps in delivering an absolute product and reduces time to market/release."

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"The solution's setup could be easier and security could be improved to minimize vulnerabilities."

"There are issues with stability when running with multiple users because it consumes a lot of memory."

"They can improve it a little bit in terms of distribution load testing. We struggled with it during the distribution."

"From an improvement perspective, consider a scenario where your application needs to retrieve data from PayPal and store it in an Excel file in an external network."

"I need to consider it further because as features increase, it might become more complicated, and my goal has always been simplicity. Currently, I have to focus on other tasks, and I'm handling multiple responsibilities, so I can't juggle everything at once. However, if you ask me, I believe EJB covers most functionalities that are crucial. One improvement I'd suggest is adding a graphical aspect to the Gateway, making it a bit more colorful. Unlike JMeter, which lacks color, having a bit of color in the graphical aspects would be beneficial. Overall, for the essential features, EJB should work fine."

"In Micro Focus LoadRunner we can go from the UI and we can configure it. There is no such feature in Apache JMeter. There should be UI-based recording history or logs."

"Scalability is somewhat of an issue, which I would rate around five or six. For runs involving a thousand or more users, JMeter presents a problem because of memory and related issues."

"JMeter's reporting is extremely rudimentary. The fundamental reporting mechanisms need to be drastically improved. It doesn't utilize an automatic session management mechanism or methods other tools use like parsing cookies and variables. Everything needs to be done manually. There's no automation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is at an intermediate level. When you compare it with other enterprise load testing tools, it falls under the average category."

"We have a yearly license, and I would give it a rating of three out of five."

"Running cost is very low."

"The solution is open source."

"Apache JMeter is a free tool."

"We are using the free version, and if required, we can easily switch to the other version."

"We use the open source version."

"Since we are using an outsourced solution, it is not paid for by our company."

"When comparing the price with Load Runner, and if the cost is an issue then JMeter is a better choice"

"I switched to Apache because it is free. Other tools are much too expensive and can cost up to $50,000 a year if you are looking at commercial options."

"The solution is free of cost as it is open source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Retailer

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	25
Large Enterprise	56

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akamai CloudTest?

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What is your primary use case for Akamai CloudTest?

I use the solution in my company for load testing. You can say that it is used on the API and then for web page-level load testing.

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What advice do you have for others considering Akamai CloudTest?

The tool's very first benefit is zero maintenance. You need not take care of your controller or load generator, so there is zero maintenance. The second benefit of the tool would be in the area of ...

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How does Postman compare with Apache JMeter?

Postman lets you easily define variables, which then get updated automatically. This is a huge time-saver and makes processes very efficient. We can also export the test cases we create and share t...

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How does BlazeMeter compare with Apache JMeter?

Blazemeter is a continuous testing platform that provides scriptless test automation. It unifies functional and performance testing, enabling users to monitor and test public and private APIs. We ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache JMeter?

Using JMeter helps us avoid additional costs for high-load testing since it is open-source and allows for unlimited virtual users at no extra cost.

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest

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Overview

Akamai CloudTest provides a robust platform for simulating real-world traffic scenarios, allowing businesses to optimize application performance and reliability.

Akamai CloudTest is designed for high-scale load testing, enabling companies to simulate thousands to millions of users in realistic environments. It delivers accurate performance insights, ensuring applications handle peak demands. With its real-time analytics, teams can make informed decisions to improve app reliability and user experience.

What are the key features of Akamai CloudTest?

Real-Time Analytics: Provides immediate insights into performance metrics during tests.
Scalability: Simulates a range of user loads from thousands to millions.
Cloud Integration: Utilizes cloud resources for flexible and extensive testing.
Customizable Test Scenarios: Allows tailored load tests to reflect real-world conditions.
Integrated Monitoring: Offers comprehensive monitoring of application performance during load tests.

What benefits and ROI can be expected?

Improved Performance: Identifies performance bottlenecks swiftly, enhancing application speed and reliability.
Cost Efficiency: Optimizes resource allocation by preventing over-provisioning.
Informed Decisions: Empowers teams to make data-driven decisions based on real-time insights.
Reduced Downtime: Minimizes application downtime through proactive testing and analysis.

In industries like finance, retail, and media, Akamai CloudTest is often implemented to ensure transaction-heavy environments remain stable under peak loads. Retailers use it during sales events to guarantee seamless user experiences, while media companies benefit during high-traffic streaming events.

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Apache JMeter is a versatile, open-source tool designed for performance and load testing, widely recognized for its user-friendly interface and robust test automation capabilities. It supports a range of protocols and integrates seamlessly into various environments, making it ideal for high-load scenarios.

Apache JMeter stands out in performance testing for its ability to handle high transactions per second and perform distributed load testing effectively. Its open-source nature and cost-effectiveness are enhanced by its user-friendly GUI, which simplifies the testing process. Despite memory consumption concerns, Apache JMeter remains a top choice due to its large community support, comprehensive scripting capabilities, and easy integration with CI/CD pipelines, allowing for continuous automated testing. Its robust protocol support meets diverse testing needs.

What are Apache JMeter's key features?

User-Friendly GUI: Simplifies test creation and management.
Open-Source: Offers flexibility and community support.
Protocol Support: Handles multiple protocols effectively.
Integration: Works seamlessly with tools like Jenkins.
Scripting: Extensive scripting abilities for custom tests.
Platform Independence: Operates on various operating systems.

Which benefits should users consider in reviews?

Cost-Effectiveness: No licensing fees due to open-source status.
Community Support: Access to a large user base for help and updates.
Scalability: Effective in high-load scenarios with distributed testing capabilities.
Automation: Integration with CI/CD for continuous testing.
Comprehensive Reporting: Provides detailed performance insights.

In industries like finance and banking, Apache JMeter is used extensively for performance validation to ensure system robustness under heavy user loads. It's integrated into CI/CD pipelines for automated testing processes, allowing organizations to simulate real-world scenarios and ensure high-performance standards.

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