Akamai CloudTest vs ReadyAPI comparison

Akamai and SmartBear are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. Akamai is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while SmartBear is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.3. Akamai holds a 3.3% mindshare in PTT, compared to SmartBear’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 5, 2025

Akamai CloudTest and ReadyAPI compete in the testing solutions category, with ReadyAPI often seen as superior due to its extensive features.

Features: Akamai CloudTest offers real-time load testing, scalability, and detailed performance analytics. It integrates with AWS and Jenkins, providing thorough monitoring and dashboards for data insight. ReadyAPI excels in API testing, with a user-friendly design, robust functionality, integration capabilities, and comprehensive testing features all on a single platform.

Room for Improvement: Akamai CloudTest could enhance ease of use in deployment and expand its API testing capabilities. Simplifying user interface and enhancing integration options can also improve user experience. ReadyAPI may benefit from a simpler setup process, improved handling of high load tests and optimization of resource usage, and enhanced support for large-scale operations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ReadyAPI is noted for its straightforward deployment process and efficient customer support, ensuring seamless issue resolution and satisfied customers. Akamai CloudTest, while requiring more complex deployment, offers extensive support that contributes to high customer satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai CloudTest is cost-effective, providing clear ROI for large-scale performance testing with scalable offerings. ReadyAPI requires a higher initial investment, which is offset by its versatile feature set and long-term value, making up for the higher cost through its comprehensive API testing abilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai CloudTest

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Load Testing Tools (7th)

ReadyAPI

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

7th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Akamai CloudTest is 3.3%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReadyAPI is 3.1%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Performance Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ReadyAPI	3.1%
Akamai CloudTest	3.3%
Other	93.6%

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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PrashanthKumar

Lead QA Engineer at Msys Technologies

Experience effective testing with flexible licensing alongside pivotal insights on essential improvements

For non-functional testing, I focus on performance and security. For performance and security tests, I used REST API, SoapUI, and JMeter. These tools help us conduct thorough testing across these dimensions. I find ReadyAPI helpful especially in overcoming security issues, as we experienced slowness in the application after merging our JAR files. For instance, if a person wants to access a university database and encounters a timeout error, we learned through ReadyAPI that the issue was due to HTML protocol limits with the payload. We fine-tuned this process to display the expected data effectively. I consider ReadyAPI a cost-effective solution because it covers three verticals without needing to purchase separate tools for security, performance, or functional testing. ReadyAPI is a versatile tool for creating multiple testing frameworks and validating various parameters seamlessly. REST API is the tool I use to test all three types of articles, meaning I validate the APIs I send to my peers or clients for functional testing, and I also perform security testing to ensure the URL and data passed through multiple components adhere to policies and user privileges. This is done through functional security testing using the REST API tool, and for performance, I ensure that applications can be accessed simultaneously by multiple users without hindrance or slowness through thorough performance testing.

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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 solution is very stable."

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

"Akamai Cloud Test provides detailed analysis during load and performance testing which helps in determining different components of our platforms and external integrations with other vendors needs optimization (i.e.) it highlights exact API call with request, response, error, TTFB to identify root cause of failure which in turn helps in improving time to resolution and prioritize change requests."

"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."

"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."

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

More Akamai CloudTest pros

"The feature I find valuable is project management, as it allows us to organize our test cases and suites inside the project and store variables as properties so they can be used across test cases and test suites at the project, test suite, or test case level."

"It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint."

"This solution is very intuitive; once you finish your first few testing cases, you can change several parameters and create lots of testing cases, and you can use the same testing cases for different purposes such as automation, performance, and screen testing."

"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the ready-to-use assertions and filters which can perform the validation. If we want to filter out any value, the filters are available. Apart from that database integration, if you want to go ahead and perform validation in the database layer it is possible with the ready-to-use feature available. The execution and reporting are rich features."

"One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration."

"It's easy to automate for more data-driven testing."

"I haven't seen any other tool that offers both types of tests. This is very helpful for us, and it's one of the main reasons why we chose this service."

"My advice is that based on the flexibility of the application, the ease of use, and the price, it's definitely worth it."

Cons

"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."

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

"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."

"The UI gets stuck sometimes; pulling huge load test data takes time and the UI often gets stuck."

"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."

"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."

"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."

More Akamai CloudTest cons

"Many users will consider this solution expensive compared to the layout. It is more expensive than other solutions."

"The UI is not user-friendly."

"There is a lot of room for improvement, mainly from the point of view of integrating ReadyAPI into the CI pipelines, and also the scripting aspect into Bitbucket."

"I would not recommend this product, as there are better products out there."

"There are lots of options within the solution, however they are not upfront or user-friendly."

"ReadyAPI could improve by having dynamic validation information."

"The licensing is sometimes a barrier for our customers. You need to have separate licenses for functional tests, load testing and virtual (mock) services."

"Based on my experience, ReadyAPI could improve by simplifying the process of scripting."

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."

"It costs approximately $200 000 Taiwan Dollars for three years."

"There are costs in addition to the licensing fee. For example, if you want to add the load testing you would pay more."

"We use fixed licenses, and the last time I checked, I want to say it's around $680 per seat per year."

"This is a cheap solution when you consider the money that will be saved in testing."

"The price was around $6,000 for one license, but I don't remember exactly. It is definitely expensive. Our organization was planning on having multiple licenses for this year."

"We have approximately 12 licenses in place. There are other solutions that are more expensive than ReadyAPI that have more features, but if the scope of the project is limited to SOAP and REST service, then this is the best option."

"The solution is dynamically priced so you only pay for what you use."

"We pay $3,000 annually for a floating license. actually. That allows another person from my company to use it as well. It's a cloud-based license."

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Retailer

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	28

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ReadyAPI?

Currently, we don't extensively use the performance testing due to license costs. License prices can be a factor in considering which technologies to adopt.

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What needs improvement with ReadyAPI?

One issue I found with ReadyAPI is related to event listeners compared to JMeter or SoapUI. We created an in-house dashboard to display automation runs across projects, which required manual updati...

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What is your primary use case for ReadyAPI?

My experience with Katalon Studio is that we used Katalon for one of our projects, and then I started leveraging Katalon by integrating it with AI tools, AP tools, and aptly tools. Aptly tool is an...

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Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest

Ready API

Overview

Akamai CloudTest provides a robust platform for simulating real-world traffic scenarios, allowing businesses to optimize application performance and reliability.

Akamai CloudTest is designed for high-scale load testing, enabling companies to simulate thousands to millions of users in realistic environments. It delivers accurate performance insights, ensuring applications handle peak demands. With its real-time analytics, teams can make informed decisions to improve app reliability and user experience.

What are the key features of Akamai CloudTest?

Real-Time Analytics: Provides immediate insights into performance metrics during tests.
Scalability: Simulates a range of user loads from thousands to millions.
Cloud Integration: Utilizes cloud resources for flexible and extensive testing.
Customizable Test Scenarios: Allows tailored load tests to reflect real-world conditions.
Integrated Monitoring: Offers comprehensive monitoring of application performance during load tests.

What benefits and ROI can be expected?

Improved Performance: Identifies performance bottlenecks swiftly, enhancing application speed and reliability.
Cost Efficiency: Optimizes resource allocation by preventing over-provisioning.
Informed Decisions: Empowers teams to make data-driven decisions based on real-time insights.
Reduced Downtime: Minimizes application downtime through proactive testing and analysis.

In industries like finance, retail, and media, Akamai CloudTest is often implemented to ensure transaction-heavy environments remain stable under peak loads. Retailers use it during sales events to guarantee seamless user experiences, while media companies benefit during high-traffic streaming events.

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ReadyAPI stands out for its API testing capabilities and integration with development tools like Jira and Git. Its user-friendly interface and automation with Groovy scripting make it a suitable, efficient choice for developers aiming for seamless project management and test execution.

ReadyAPI presents a comprehensive suite for API testing, supporting functional, performance, and security tasks with minimal coding required. It offers robust integration with tools such as Postman and CI/CD processes, enabling users to manage and automate testing scenarios efficiently. Despite its strengths, users notice limitations in performance and cloud integration, especially in scalability and test management. While it facilitates data-driven testing through Excel and supports on-premise and cloud environments, ReadyAPI could benefit from improved reporting and simpler scripting processes. Its interface and GitHub integration would further enhance its adaptability for larger projects and diverse applications.

What are ReadyAPI's main features?

Smart Assertion: Simplifies API validation with efficient testing mechanisms.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Enhances ease of use and streamlines workflow.
Groovy Scripting Automation: Allows for advanced automation without extensive coding.
Data-Driven Testing: Utilizes Excel files for managing test scenarios effectively.
CI/CD Integration: Ensures smooth project management and test execution across development cycles.

Why consider ReadyAPI in your evaluations?

Testing Efficiency: Reduces coding requirements, allowing for rapid test case development and validation.
Tool Integration: Seamless compatibility with platforms like Jira and Postman boosts workflow.
Cost-Effective: Offers a versatile toolset for developers without excessive expenditure.
Reporting Options: Provides comprehensive insights to refine testing outcomes and strategies.

ReadyAPI is principally leveraged by industries that require precise API testing capabilities, spanning functional, performance, and security assessments. Its ease of integrating with CI/CD tools and ability to manage backend APIs make it an ideal choice in sectors that prioritize automation and reliability in testing processes. Companies operating within on-premise and cloud environments benefit from its support for diverse testing needs and scenarios, ensuring improved testing proficiency and response validation.

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Sample Customers

Chester Zoo

Healthcare Data Solutions (HDS)

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