Akamai CloudTest vs Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing comparison

Akamai and Dotcom-Monitor are both solutions in the Load Testing Tools category. Akamai is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Dotcom-Monitor is ranked #17. Akamai holds a 3.6% mindshare in LTT, compared to Dotcom-Monitor’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Dotcom-Monitor users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

Akamai CloudTest and Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing compete in the software stress testing category. While Dotcom-Monitor LoadView has the upper hand in features, Akamai CloudTest offers better pricing and customer support.

Features: Akamai CloudTest provides real-time analytics and supports large-scale tests. Additionally, it ensures robust performance assessment. Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing offers powerful scripting capabilities and browser-based testing. Its ability to simulate real-world user experiences and conduct tests across diverse environments gives it an advantage.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing allows straightforward deployment with its cloud-based model, making it agile in initiating tests with less setup. Akamai CloudTest requires more preparation, potentially delaying deployment, but provides strong customer support throughout the process.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai CloudTest delivers cost-effective scalable solutions suitable for businesses with varying needs. Although Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing might be more costly, its advanced features and comprehensive capabilities offer high ROI. Akamai CloudTest offers better value at a lower price, while Dotcom-Monitor LoadView justifies a higher cost with extensive offerings.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai CloudTest

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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Performance Testing Tools (8th)

Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Str...

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

17th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Load Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Akamai CloudTest is 3.6%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Load Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Akamai CloudTest	3.6%
Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing	1.3%
Other	95.1%

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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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reviewer1631949

Solutions Architect ICT at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

User-friendly, cheap, and quick to set up

It's actually quite easy to set it up. You can change your upgrade plan at any time. The pricing is reasonable. The support was also very good. They are great at helping you set it up. Overall, it's user-friendly. I like that you can also use different servers, which I used in Europe or in different contexts. The reporting is okay. I can get notifications via email, which is nice. Everything is immediate and in real-time.

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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

"Customer service is great; quick to act on everything."

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

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

"The solution is very stable."

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

"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."

"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."

More Akamai CloudTest pros

"The initial setup is easy, and if you need more help, they are there to assist."

"LoadView is a perfect cloud-based load testing tool."

"LoadView is a flexible solution, which protects your investments."

"The pricing is reasonable."

Cons

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

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

"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."

"Out of five, I would rate the technical support of the solution at two or three. Sometimes it's a challenge because we face delays."

"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."

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

"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."

More Akamai CloudTest cons

"A lot of time you start the stress testing, and you sign the log in again, and I want to get rid of that. It's just not clear to me how to do it yet."

"If I do the web application test, I want to bypass a login part."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Running cost is very low."

"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."

"You can buy plans that range from free to $500 a month."

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Financial Services Firm

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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

LoadView Stress Testing

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

LoadView provides scalable external load testing using real browsers. Spin up virtual machines in the Amazon, Google or Rackspace clouds without having to manage cloud accounts. Record scripts and run stress tests on demand. Learn more at https://www.loadview-testing.com

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Sample Customers

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Citrix, Aflac, Xerox, American InterContinental University, UMASS, ITT Technical Institute, Roanoke College

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