Perfecto vs ReadyAPI Test comparison

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Perforce and SmartBear are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. Perforce is ranked #20, while SmartBear is ranked #22. Perforce holds a 2.4% mindshare in FT, compared to SmartBear’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Perforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

Perfecto

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Perfecto and ReadyAPI Test both compete in the software testing category. Perfecto seems to have the upper hand in cross-platform support and real-time access to new devices, while ReadyAPI Test stands out in API testing features and an easy-to-use interface.

Features: Perfecto is praised for its cloud-based architecture, allowing extensive cross-platform testing and video recording features, essential for remote teams. The tool supports both Appium and Selenium integration, which is a strong point for automated testing. Perfecto's real-time access to new devices ensures teams can keep up with market changes. ReadyAPI Test excels with its simplified API testing setup, providing mock services and advanced scripting capabilities. The data-driven testing feature enhances test coverage and flexibility. A user-friendly interface makes ReadyAPI Test easily accessible to technical and non-technical users.

Room for Improvement: Perfecto could see gains in performance improvements for iOS, as well as better reporting through machine learning insights. Enhancing speed and device reliability, particularly for cloud operations, would improve user experience. Greater integration with other test management tools would expand its functionality. ReadyAPI Test would benefit from enhanced stability and scalability, bringing more graphical elements to reports, and addressing challenges with licensing complexity and costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Perfecto offers flexible deployment options including public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, which is versatile for different organizational needs. Its customer service is highly rated for its responsiveness and technical support, which enhances its overall offering. ReadyAPI Test, primarily an on-premises solution, may not offer the same flexibility but receives favorable reviews for technical support. However, Perfecto stands out for its superior customer interactions and effective support system.

Pricing and ROI: Perfecto's pricing is on the higher side, especially for private cloud scenarios, but users often find the investment worthwhile due to the robust support and device availability, which minimizes the necessity for physical devices and infrastructure. Significant ROI is achieved through efficient device pool management and reduced test execution times. In contrast, ReadyAPI Test's pricing is considered high, with concerns that it may not be justified by its offerings. Despite this, its comprehensive API testing capabilities offer value, but cost considerations are vital when assessing its advanced features and integrations.

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Categories and Ranking

Perfecto

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

20th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (13th), Mobile App Testing Tools (6th), Test Automation Tools (21st)

ReadyAPI Test

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Regression Testing Tools (11th), API Testing Tools (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Perfecto is 2.4%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReadyAPI Test is 2.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Perfecto	2.4%
ReadyAPI Test	2.3%
Other	95.3%

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Rodrigo Candido Costa

Software Quality and Automation Specialist at PRIME CONTROL

The solution saves us money because the cost of each license is 10 times lower than what we would spend to maintain infrastructure here

Sometimes, when the automated tests sync up or we have to debug remotely, we cannot interact directly with the device. We can interact with the code in the debugging tool, but we cannot directly click on the element on the screen or send other kinds of inputs to the device. This is possible with other tools. Also, it would be nice if there were some kind of API to get a list of available devices. Currently, we have to look at the web interface to see the available devices, but the pipelines can't do it on their own there. We always need to do this manually, so it would be better if this feature was automated.

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Luis Sanchez

Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer at Dormakaba

Helps in data, regression, performance, security, and functional testing

ReadyAPI Test needs to improve its reporting. While reports provide essential information when issues arise, or tests fail, having more graphical representations directly within the reports would be beneficial. It needs to improve stability and scalability as well. The tool's support is slow, and takes months to reach a solution.

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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

"We're working in Agile and we need results ASAP. The fact that the lab provides same-day access to new devices is extremely important to us."

"Overall, it results in huge cost savings for our company."

"Perfecto has affected our software quality in a good way; it has allowed us to catch our defects earlier, thus improving the quality of our applications."

"When the scripts are stable, Perfecto is awesome."

"Their team is really great to work with. They're very flexible, and they always show care. They prioritize our work, our company, and our working relationship. I appreciate the ad hoc sessions that they schedule to provide help with troubleshooting, provide the information that we're looking for, or do a demo of a new feature that they have. They're always willing and very quick to get that scheduled for us. I appreciate that a lot."

"The reporting feature is really tough to find in some of the other products that are competitors. Having your CITB type dashboard, where we can see the test results and see recordings of each test that passed or failed, is probably one of the distinguishing aspects of Perfecto."

"Performance-wise, Perfecto has been awesome."

"We are able to offer a quality product that has been tested fully, which improves our customer satisfaction. That is a good thing. It has also reduced our IT infrastructure cost. We don't have to spend a lot on setting up infrastructure, which becomes redundant or obsolete very soon. It helps in offsetting that cost."

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"The most valuable features are that it is user-friendly, it's easy to use and easy to teach to others."

"Using this solution, we developed tests about three times faster than we did with Java and by doing manual REST reverse engineering from product code (Java)."

"One good feature is SoapUI's URL check, which allows you to check among the applications. I'm not just talking about the ones for Android. It has all kinds of multi-world tests that are really helpful."

"SoapUI is uncomplicated and user-friendly."

"I think this is a very easy tool to use for automated tests to run in a CI environment."

"We are using SoapUI Pro as an API testing tool, and we do API building, testing, and tracking."

"The out-of-the-box support for the database is a valuable feature."

"For the money this is a great tool."

Cons

"In iOS, it needs improvements with some limitations."

"So, overall, I would rate Perfecto a seven out of ten because sometimes, we also have lagging with some of the devices. We get error messages, but we're not quite sure what's causing them."

"Its performance should be improved. Anything to speed up the user interface would be a great help. We've had a lot of pain with their migration from a product UI that was based on Adobe Flash to the new product that is based on HTML5. Migrations like that seemed to be very painful and not a real smooth process. We're still sort of recovering from that migration from old technology to new, and we haven't got all the functionality ported over that we used to have on the old UI."

"Going by the dashboard or analytics capabilities that Perfecto or Perforce is looking to offer in its roadmap, it will certainly help if they also cater to executing and enabling decision-making, rather than just focusing on standard testing metrics such as execution, efficiency, and defect rate. These are good metrics, but they don't necessarily enable decision-making for SLTs. Any improvements in the dashboards and reporting tools should focus on metrics or SLAs that can help with decision-making."

"It is slow compared to physical device testing. The interactive speed could be improved."

"The monitoring features, in particular network traffic monitoring, could be improved."

"The flakiness, or the accuracy, of the test execution can be improved. Also, the responsiveness of their cloud lab could be improved as well."

"On the analytics side, Perfecto is in need of improvement."

More Perfecto cons

"I think their user-information sites should be better defined by SoapUI. For example, if I want to hit that virtualize server, let's say, with a 100K load — what is the bare minimum requirement?"

"For automation commands, it should be able to do what SmartBear is doing with ReadyAPI."

"SoapUI Pro could improve by having dashboards."

"Occasionally, when you are saving, the solution can hang."

"I am never going to buy SoapUI, far too expensive."

"I would like more documentation, training, tutorials, etc. Also, I don't particularly appreciate that I have to save everything. It takes up a lot of space on my laptop, but I have to install the WSDL again If I don't save it."

"There are no bugs or glitches, but a few features available only in the Pro version could be made available in the open-source version. Some of the features do not necessarily need to be only available to Pro users. The data generator would be really useful for the open-source version users."

"There aren't any plugins for UI automation. You need to make a custom code and download a job to put into the libraries. If it were panelized, then it would be straightforward. It should be in a panel of the tools, so you can add those tools as your test step in your test cases."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Perfecto has definitely saved us on the costs and efforts of having to maintain our own virtual test environment. We lost about 20 devices in the past to maintenance and audit. That was a massive loss for us, as a company, because we were giving devices to someone, but don't know whether we would get it back or not. Having those virtual labs, we don't need to worry about these kinds of things. We are easily saving $5,000 to $10,000 a month on device costing."

"This is an expensive solution compared to others, by 30% to 40%."

"Pricing is an area where Perfecto can do a little better. When we obtain additional licenses, we enter into negotiations with them."

"I am not sure about its pricing, but from our perspective, licensing has been easy. Anytime I have new users or requests for users that want to get added, it's a very simple process. I just give the architectural owner of the product the name and email address, and they're able to easily add a new user. We don't have any issues in regards to getting licenses, but I don't have any insights into pricing."

"It's definitely on the higher end of prices for this type of service."

"Although Perfecto is a good product for us to use, it is a bit expensive. It takes management a bit of work to find the appropriate funding for us to keep Perfecto. I imagine there could be some way to make it more accessible."

"Pricing-wise, it is fine. It is not as expensive as what we used to have in the past from HP, IBM, and others. It is decently priced."

"Perfecto is about 30-40% cheaper than Device Anywhere. That was a big reason why we switched. Perfecto also solves some of the issues that we had with Device Anywhere. We have grown by 100% since we started to use Perfecto, and now we have devices roaming. When we look at the competition, we would still stick with Perfecto."

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"It is free of charge."

"We have team members who are working in shifts, and it is not possible for us to utilize a single license on a single piece of hardware so that multiple team members can use it. We have to take out multiple licenses for each team member."

"ReadyAPI Test is about $680 per user, per year."

"SoapUI Pro is open source but it has a subscription-based model which involves some more features. At the moment we are using the free version. The Pro version requires a license, and it is an annual license to use it."

"The Pro version can be expensive for some companies. There are no costs in addition to the licensing fees."

"The cost is not that bad."

"My understanding is that the pricing is okay, however, that's taken care of by our procurement team. It's around $5,000 for three years."

"I think the number of users is also limited, considering how much we pay."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	20

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Also Known As

Perfecto Mobile, Perfecto Web

SoapUI NG Pro

Overview

Perfecto is a cloud-based testing platform that supports automated and manual testing processes across many devices and operating systems, facilitating cross-platform and real-time data access. Users experience seamless testing integrations, although improvements are sought in some areas.

Perfecto provides extensive mobile testing capabilities across iOS, Android, and more, with automation and enhanced reporting options such as video recordings. While it excels with Appium and Selenium integration for cross-platform consistency and CI Dashboard features, it faces challenges in iOS web testing and hybrid apps. Users indicate the need for better integration with test management tools, dashboard metrics improvements, and machine learning features. Cloud device response times and UI interactions could benefit from performance enhancements, while users desire longer report history and API automation advancements.

What are Perfecto's most important features?

Cloud-based Architecture: Access a vast array of devices and OS versions for testing scalability.
Automation: Supports Selenium and Appium for streamlined testing processes.
Enhanced Reporting: Offers video recordings to help validate tests thoroughly.
Cross-platform Testing: Execute tests across multiple platforms efficiently.
Real-time Data Access: Monitor tests via CI Dashboard and Live Stream.

What benefits or ROI can users expect from reviews?

Increased Device Availability: Quickly access the newest devices and software updates.
Improved Testing Speed: Allow faster test execution and feedback loops.
Scalability: Easily scale up or down with cloud-based resources.
Enhanced Productivity: Automate tests and streamline reporting for efficiency.

Perfecto has broad applications in industries such as retail, finance, and technology, where secure and scalable testing is critical. Organizations employ it in both private and public cloud environments for mobile, web, and API testing. Its ability to provide extensive device coverage and integration into existing CI/CD processes makes it integral for ensuring reliable mobile app performance and compatibility across platforms.

Perforce

ReadyAPI Test is a versatile solution for API testing, known for its flexibility, automation, and ease of setup. It efficiently handles SOAP, REST, and JDBC testing, with a user-friendly interface that supports both technical and non-technical teams.

ReadyAPI Test offers robust capabilities in API testing, including functional, load, and security testing. Features such as Groovy scripting, mock services, and data-driven testing enhance workflow efficiency. It integrates well with project environments, supporting script writing and database validation. Teams benefit from easy navigation and comprehensive testing capabilities, making it suitable for IT clients and software test engineers.

What are the main features of ReadyAPI Test?

Groovy Scripting: Enables advanced testing scenarios and custom functions.
Mock Services: Allows simulation of service responses for more dynamic testing.
Data-Driven Testing: Supports testing with diverse data sets for extensive validation.
Integration Capabilities: Enhances project workflows with seamless environment connections.
Load and Security Testing: Provides efficient performance analysis and security checks.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies navigation for both technical and non-technical users.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Time Efficiency: Streamlined testing processes reduce time spent on manual tasks.
Flexibility: Adapts to varied testing needs and environments easily.
Comprehensive Testing: Supports a full range of API testing types for different protocols.
Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces long-term costs through automation and efficient operations.
Improved Collaboration: Facilitates better team collaboration with integrated tools.

ReadyAPI Test is deployed across industries for automated and manual API testing. It suits industries like IT services, where it assists software test engineers in end-to-end testing scenarios, including email systems and mainframe integration. Organizations utilize it for extensive testing requirements, offering a range of validation methods across project lifecycles.

SmartBear

Sample Customers

Virgin Media, Paychex, Rabobank, R+V, Discover

Apple, Cisco, FedEx, eBay, Microsoft, MasterCard, Pfizer, Nike, Oracle, Volvo, Lufthansa, Disney, HP, Intel, U.S. Air Force, Schindler

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