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Akamai CloudTest vs Ixia IxLoad comparison

 

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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
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ixia IxLoad
Ranking in Performance Testing Tools
17th
Ranking in Load Testing Tools
18th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Load Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Akamai CloudTest is 3.4%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ixia IxLoad is 1.2%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Load Testing Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Akamai CloudTest3.4%
Ixia IxLoad1.2%
Other95.4%
Load Testing Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Vinod Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Retailer
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Government
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akamai CloudTest?
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 ...
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.
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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SOASTA CloudTest
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