Akamai CloudTest vs Appvance AIQ Platform comparison

Akamai and Appvance are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. Akamai is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Appvance is ranked #18. Akamai holds a 3.4% mindshare in PTT, compared to Appvance’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Appvance users who would recommend it.

Akamai CloudTest

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Appvance AIQ Platform

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100% willing to recommend

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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

Appvance AIQ Platform

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

18th

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (60th), Functional Testing Tools (34th), Regression Testing Tools (15th), Test Automation Tools (32nd), AI-Augmented Software-Testing Tools (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Akamai CloudTest is 3.4%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Appvance AIQ Platform is 2.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Performance Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Akamai CloudTest	3.4%
Appvance AIQ Platform	2.4%
Other	94.2%

Performance Testing Tools

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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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it_user129477

Performance Tester/QA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Network Emulation allows for performance testing of geographically-distributed users.

It is a great performance testing tool. The most valuable feature of the tool is its Avatar technology. Scripting is really fast, compared to other tools. It works for almost all major protocols, platforms and browsers. It makes complex scenarios simple, and we need minimal custom coding. It also provides features for Network Emulation, which is quite helpful in testing the performance for geographically-distributed users. Appvance can provide information from end to end (back-end and front-end), which makes it surpass other tools. The tool provides protocol level as well as browser level response time. And it can be integrated with major monitoring tools. As it is a web-based tool, it makes it easy to access anywhere anytime. All the team members can access the common information easily.

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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."

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

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

"The solution is very stable."

"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."

"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."

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

"It is a great performance testing tool."

Cons

"One of the challenges with Soasta is availability and quick access to their technical support documentation and on-call support."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Reporting features can be improved to provide more flexibility, collation, exporting in different formats, etc."

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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Retailer

11%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

21%

Computer Software Company

15%

Construction Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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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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Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest

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Overview

Soasta's CloudTest rapidly builds realistic test scenarios using real user data, then tests, analyzes and repairs faster. CloudTest's visual test environment and real-time analytics test your website, mobile app and api backend to give you a streaming view of all your performance data while tests run from back-end systems to front end performance.

Akamai

Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven testing, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ™, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. AIQ empowers enterprises to improve the quality, performance and security of their apps, while transforming the efficiency and output of their testing teams.

Appvance IQ was launched in late 2017, helping Appvance.ai to become among the fastest growing test automation companies in the world, and the leader in the new category of AI driven testing.

Appvance

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