BlazeMeter vs Ixia IxLoad vs k6 Open Source comparison

BlazeMeter ensures delivery of high-performance software by enabling DevOps teams to quickly and easily run open-source-based performance tests against any mobile app, website or API at massive scale to validate performance at every stage of software delivery.

The rapidly growing BlazeMeter community has more than 100,000 developers and includes prominent global brands such as Adobe, Atlassian, Gap, NBC Universal, Pfizer and Walmart as customers. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., with its research and development in Tel Aviv.

IxLoad provides comprehensive performance tests for validation and user experience (QoE). IxLoad works by emulating web, video, voice, storage, wireless VPN, infrastructure and encapsulation protocols/security to create realistic scenarios. With a modular design, IxLoad scales infrastructure in real time, producing metrics that can quickly identify network impairments and isolate breakpoints.

Load Impact offers three main features:

1. Automated testing - Integrates into your CD pipeline with CI plug-ins or opt for full control with API/SDKs.
2. API testing - a powerful scripting environment where you can create as simple or complex API scenarios as you need.
3. Web & web app testing - easily load test your website or web app. Record user scenarios using our Chrome extension or proxy recorder and configure a test with just a few clicks - no programming required.