Akamai CloudTest vs Tricentis NeoLoad comparison

Akamai and Tricentis are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. Akamai is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Tricentis is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1. Akamai holds a 3.5% mindshare in PTT, compared to Tricentis’s 10.7% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Tricentis users who would recommend it.

Akamai CloudTest

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 6, 2025

Akamai CloudTest and Tricentis NeoLoad are in the performance testing category, with NeoLoad having the upper hand due to its extensive features and perceived value.

Features: Akamai CloudTest is strong in large-scale test handling, real-time analytics, and seamless integration. Tricentis NeoLoad is known for its high scalability, ability to reuse scripts, and integration with CI/CD pipelines, providing broader testing capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Akamai CloudTest could enhance scalability, expand its script reuse options, and improve integration with modern CI/CD systems. Tricentis NeoLoad may improve its user interface, reduce learning curve complexities, and enhance script creation speed.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai CloudTest provides straightforward deployment with exceptional customer service known for quick issue resolution. Tricentis NeoLoad offers flexible deployment options and comprehensive customer support that facilitates swift problem resolution, making it preferable for customers seeking deployment flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai CloudTest is praised for its competitive pricing and strong ROI due to its efficient capabilities. Tricentis NeoLoad, despite being more expensive, justifies its cost through high ROI linked to its advanced features and comprehensive testing capabilities, making it a worthwhile investment.

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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

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tricentis NeoLoad

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

3rd

Ranking in Load Testing Tools

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Akamai CloudTest is 3.5%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tricentis NeoLoad is 10.7%, down from 15.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Performance Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tricentis NeoLoad	10.7%
Akamai CloudTest	3.5%
Other	85.8%

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Featured Reviews

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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reviewer2732589

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.

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

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

"From my own experience, if you're talking about load testing and performance testing then definitely you should go for CloudTest."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"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 solution is a UI-based tool, so it's easy to use because we don't have to do actual recording with it. This makes it easier to use, and, in terms of speed, it's a bit faster than other tools when it comes to scripting."

"NeoLoad offers better reporting than most competing tools. It is effortless to analyze and measure the reported data. It's also simple to generate a report that most people can read and management can understand. NeoLoad helps you figure out the main issues inside the application."

"Implementing this product has allowed us to increase the number of projects that get load testing, and the frequency by which we re-test our performance."

"NeoLoad is very user friendly and works well with HTTP and REST API’s, is very effective during cloud based testing, and the cost is a fraction of LoadRunner."

"It’s a very powerful tool which meets all our load and performance testing requirements, along with very sophisticated monitoring tools and reports."

"The scripting is really user-friendly and the reporting is very good."

"A great deal of improvement in application performance happened because we could pin point the bottlenecks."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"The product must improve the features that allow integration with CI/CD pipelines."

"A small number of times, when load testing huge projects with huge number (~10,000) of vUsers, we have seen that it completely froze."

"It needs improvements in the UI. It's currently not as friendly as it should be."

"LoadRunner supports multiple protocols, whereas NeoLoad supports only three protocols. With NeoLoad, we can go for the SAP technology, web-based HTTP, and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). If I have to simulate .NET application-based traffic, I won't be able to do that. So, protocol support is a limitation for NeoLoad. It should support more protocols."

"There were some features that were lacking in Tricentis NeoLoad, e.g. those were more into Citrix and other complicated protocols, which were supported easily by a competitor: Micro Focus LoadRunner."

"Team Server - Neotys Team Server - This currently stores project data on the local drive. I suggest having Neotys Team Server Data stored on an actual server."

"NeoLoad can improve the correlation templates, which are specific to frameworks. There's room for improvement in that area."

"Sometimes it's complicated to maintain the test cases. It's much easier than in JMeter, however. I'm not sure if this depends so much on NeoLoad, or is more based on the environment that we are testing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a yearly license, and I would give it a rating of three out of five."

"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."

"Running cost is very low."

"When compared to LoadRunner, NeoLoad has less costs. Compared to that, it's somehow affordable."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The licensing for this solution is renewable yearly, and covers all available features and technical support."

"The tool's pricing is somewhat higher than licensed tools like LoadRunner. The approximate cost is around $25,000. There are no additional charges for maintenance or support. Everything is included in the package we have."

"NeoLoad now has a much more flexible licensing process."

"Tricentis NeoLoad is much cheaper compared to other tools like LoadRunner."

"The solution requires an annual license."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap, I rate Tricentis NeoLoad's pricing a seven out of ten."

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it_user104961

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…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Retailer

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction 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	12
Large Enterprise	49

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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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...

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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...

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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...

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Comparisons

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

Apache JMeter vs Akamai CloudTest

Compared 9% of the time

k6 Open Source vs Akamai CloudTest

Compared 7% of the time

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OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) vs Tricentis NeoLoad

Compared 33% of the time

Apache JMeter vs Tricentis NeoLoad

Compared 16% of the time

OpenText Core Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Cloud) vs Tricentis NeoLoad

Compared 8% of the time

BlazeMeter vs Tricentis NeoLoad

Compared 6% of the time

k6 Open Source vs Tricentis NeoLoad

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest

NeoLoad, Neotys NeoLoad

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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Tricentis NeoLoad is designed for performance and load testing, allowing teams to collaborate effectively, even across different locations. Its user-centric interface supports various protocols and seamlessly integrates with tools like Jenkins and Tableau.

Tricentis NeoLoad streamlines performance testing by offering an adaptable environment for distributed teams. The tool is noted for its comprehensive analysis capabilities, user-friendly interface, and support for mobile and cloud testing. It also provides cost-effective scalability compared to competitors such as LoadRunner. However, areas for improvement include enhanced protocol support, interface and reporting upgrades, and better integration with CI/CD pipelines. Users have noted stability issues with large projects and challenges with concurrent script editing. Enhancing customer service, licensing options, and documentation could further improve user experience.

What features make Tricentis NeoLoad stand out?

Team Collaboration: Enables simultaneous work across different locations.
Comprehensive Insights: Custom graph options for detailed analysis.
User-Centric Design: Simplifies scripting without extensive coding knowledge.
Protocol Support: Facilitates mobile, web, and cloud-based testing.
Tool Integration: Works seamlessly with Jenkins, Tableau, and others.
Scalability and Monitoring: Supports real-time monitoring and API integration.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Cost Efficiency: More affordable than some competitors while offering scalable solutions.
Improved Testing Accuracy: Real-world simulation of multi-user scenarios.
Deployment Flexibility: Supports both on-premise and SaaS models.
Enhanced Application Performance: Monitors system behavior effectively.

Tricentis NeoLoad is primarily utilized in web application and SAP GUI testing, focusing on performance in QA and production settings. It supports real-world simulation for web services and APIs, proving especially beneficial in industries demanding robust system behavior monitoring and application scaling. Catering to on-premise and SaaS deployments, it integrates into CI/CD pipelines, enhancing testing efficiency across sectors.

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Sample Customers

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

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