LoadForge Alternatives

LoadForge is described as 'Load testing and stress tests for websites, APIs and servers. LoadForge brings affordable, highly scalable, easy to run and understand load testing into the modern SaaS world. Simulate up to 500,000 users from $19 a month' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to LoadForge for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best LoadForge alternative is k6, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LoadForge are locust, Loadster, Loader.io and OctoPerf.

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  1. k6 icon
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    k6 is an open-source load testing tool. It's used to test the performance of websites, web apps, APIs and micro-services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • k6 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to LoadForge.

    • k6 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to LoadForge.

    • k6 is Free and Open SourceLoadForge is Paid and Proprietary
  2. locust icon
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    An open source load testing tool written in Python. Locust allows you to define user behaviour with Python code, and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • locust is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to LoadForge.

    • locust is Free and Open SourceLoadForge is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Loadster icon
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    Loadster is a full-featured load testing solution for websites, web apps, and web services. It's built for real web apps and effortlessly handles cookies, user sessions, custom headers, dynamic form data and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Loadster is the most popular Web-based alternative to LoadForge.

    • Loadster is Freemium and ProprietaryLoadForge is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Loader.io icon
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    Loader.io is a simple cloud-based load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps & apis with thousands of concurrent connections. Made by the team behind SendGrid.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. OctoPerf icon
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    OctoPerf is a SaaS load testing solution, based on JMeter.

    Stress test your web and mobile apps within minutes. Design realistic virtual users. Scales to thousands of user from multiple locations simultaneously. We take care of the infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • OctoPerf is the most popular commercial alternative to LoadForge.

    • OctoPerf is Paid and ProprietaryLoadForge is also Paid and Proprietary
  6. blitz.io icon
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    Blitz makes load and performance testing of your web site, API, iPhone and Android and Facebook apps a fun sport.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Managed load testing platform built on k6, integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, supporting frontend and backend scenarios, GUI test builder, browser recorder, and JavaScript scripting. Free tier offers virtual user hours, metrics, logs, traces, and observability.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Gatling.io icon
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    Gatling is an open-source load testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty.

    47 Gatling.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Maven
     
  9. Loadrunner icon
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    LoadRunner is a software testing tool used to test applications, measuring system behaviour and performance under load. LoadRunner can simulate thousands of users concurrently using application software, recording and later analyzing the performance of key components of the...

    44 Loadrunner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. CloudTest icon
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    Load Testing of Web Sites, Mobile Applications, Web Services, and Web Sockets. Real-Time Analytics, Public Cloud load injectors, rapid test development, real user data, network emulation, SLAs, all with CI Integration. 100VUs for free, forever.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. StresStimulus icon
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    Load testing tool for websites and mobile that works with hard-to-test applications.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. SmartMeter.io icon
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    SmartMeter.io is a load and performance testing tool based on JMeter that is fixing its drawbacks while adding enterprise-level load testing features.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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