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Akamai CloudTest vs Tricentis NeoLoad comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

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
Tricentis NeoLoad
Ranking in Performance Testing Tools
2nd
Ranking in Load Testing Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 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 Tricentis NeoLoad is 10.7%, down from 16.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Performance Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tricentis NeoLoad10.7%
Akamai CloudTest3.3%
Other86.0%
Performance 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.
reviewer2732589 - PeerSpot reviewer
senior test engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Positive experience with seamless setup and responsive support but pricing and version compatibility need improvement
I'm not ready to share what areas of Tricentis NeoLoad have room for improvement now. The price could be more friendly, and it was impossible to continue using the same version of Tricentis NeoLoad, as we were forced to move to the next version. Sometimes there were compatibility problems, and that was a major problem with backward compatibility issues.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"Soasta CloudTest is an integral part of our performance testing strategy and key in generating load across geography."
"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."
"The agents on the cloud have been extremely valuable for us."
"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."
"Customer service is great; quick to act on everything."
"From my own experience, if you're talking about load testing and performance testing then definitely you should go for CloudTest."
"Script designing and "free" network emulation are the most valuable features for us."
"The solution has provided us with options to improve our applications by allowing us to design scenarios, and export our scripts to the Git repository, CACD integration, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics integration."
"The GUI based scripting is a huge time saver for us since we don’t have a dedicated performance team yet, as I can create scripts quickly and get tests going."
"It offered us an easy to use, limited code option for end-to-end performance testing."
"It helped us to improve the performance of all our applications."
"The most valuable feature that we've found useful is that NeoLoad provides a variety of bandwidths."
"With the tool, it is possible to compare NeoLoad test results against baseline and benchmark, and we can make the comparisons in the same window."
"The scripting is really user-friendly and the reporting is very good."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"The test clip should be more user-friendly."
"I couldn't say, as I haven't used it outside the training or applied it to any project yet."
"The UI gets stuck sometimes; pulling huge load test data takes time and the UI often gets stuck."
"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."
"One of the challenges with Soasta is availability and quick access to their technical support documentation and on-call support."
"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."
"We had some initial issues with the number of tests, memory leaks, and the controller itself."
"The rendering of heavyweighted applications can't be scripted via NeoLoad, so we have to use LoadRunner as an extra client."
"Since the ownership of NeoLoad has changed to Tricentis, they have done a very poor job with license management."
"It needs improvement with post-production."
"LoadRunner offers a full protocol, whereas, with this product, only a few of the protocols are supported - not all."
"While importing the scripts from backup it should not create the new variables because it has created some issues for us."
"Tricentis NeoLoad could improve the range of codeless scripting such as with terminal emulation apps."
"The protocol support area could be improved."
 

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."
"NeoLoad is expensive, but to my knowledge, it's better than LoadRunner."
"We used a 60-day trial with ten hours of work per month."
"The tool is not cheap."
"Tricentis NeoLoad price is a benefit of using this tool, it is less expensive than some of the other solutions."
"Its licensing cost is very less."
"The licensing for this solution is renewable yearly, and covers all available features and technical support."
"I'd rate it a seven out of ten in terms of pricing"
"Licence cost is very attractive compared to other vendor tools and also there are many license alternatives."
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Comparison Review

it_user104961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Penetration and Neoload Tester at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 13, 2014
LoadRunner vs NeoLoad
The six phases of an IT project Enthusiasm Disillusionment Panic Search for the guilty Punishment of the innocent (the performance tester) Praise and rewards for the incompetent non-participants This article has been put together as part of an evaluation of the performance test tools NeoLoad and…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Retailer
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise49
 

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 ...
Do you recommend Tricentis NeoLoad?
I highly recommend Tricentis NeoLoad for companies that are in need of a versatile load and performance testing tool. This relatively inexpensive solution is recognized by organizations like Oxford...
What is your primary use case for Neotys NeoLoad?
My relationship with Tricentis NeoLoad is that I implemented it during a trial period, and then they implemented some solution on the basis of Tricentis NeoLoad. We tested both virtual infrastructu...
What do you like most about Tricentis NeoLoad?
The most valuable feature of Tricentis NeoLoad for us has been its ability to easily monitor all the load generators and configure the dynamics and data rates. Additionally, we can monitor individu...
 

Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest
NeoLoad, Neotys NeoLoad
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Chester Zoo
Dell, H&R Block, Best Buy, Orange, Verizon Wireless, ING, Mazda, Siemens, University of Oxford
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