OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) vs Perfecto comparison

OpenText and Perforce are both solutions in the Performance Testing Tools category. OpenText is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while Perforce is ranked #16. OpenText holds a 6.1% mindshare in PTT, compared to Perforce’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) and Perfecto compete in the testing solutions category, with Perfecto having an upper hand for mobile testing due to its cost-effectiveness and strong support.

Features: OpenText is notable for its broad protocol support, flexible scheduling, and integration with Application Lifecycle Management. Perfecto shines with its automation capabilities, scalability, and cloud-based execution, making it ideal for cross-platform testing.

Room for Improvement: OpenText needs better third-party integration, an improved UI, and more robust cloud-hosted testing support. Perfecto could enhance its UI, execution speed, and cross-browser testing, while also exploring machine learning analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText offers both on-premises and cloud deployment options, but reports of inconsistent customer service exist. Perfecto primarily operates in cloud environments and provides reliable customer service and technical support.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText is often seen as expensive, though it delivers high ROI for enterprises needing detailed protocol insights. Perfecto offers competitive pricing with good ROI, especially appreciated for its cost-effectiveness in mobile testing.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Enterprise Perform...

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Load Testing Tools (5th)

Perfecto

Ranking in Performance Testing Tools

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (15th), Mobile App Testing Tools (4th), Test Automation Tools (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) is 6.1%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Perfecto is 2.5%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Performance Testing Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise)	6.1%
Perfecto	2.5%
Other	91.4%

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Founder & Chief Executive Officer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Ensures high performance and adaptability while providing room for improved analytics and support

The analytics and reporting features can be improved, though they are good enough. If you have expertise, you can manage with what is included. However, it could be much better, especially with modern AI capabilities. When considering areas for improvement in OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise), there is a need for automated analysis and code-level support.

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Roland Castelino

QA Lead at BMO Financial

Its reporting allows us to have a clear view regarding what tests have been executed

The most valuable would be their Live Stream analysis, where I can see the live analysis of all the executions on a single device or multiple devices as well as track them. The live analysis and reporting would be the single most valuable feature. We leverage Perfecto’s reporting and analytics a lot. From the CI Dashboard, it is mainly the status, which is the past, failure count, and time consumption, e.g., how much time did an average test or script take? Along with that, it provides the historical view compared to the previous result, e.g., am I a pass or fail? Also, the stack trace is very important. Whenever a pass occurs, we don't look beyond that. However, whenever a failure occurs, the stack trace information that it gives us is pretty critical for us when figuring out where failures lie. It gives a summary for the pass/fail count, total test count, the historical view, time consumption for each test as well as the total tests, and the stack rate of the failure. Perfecto's analytics are very important since we use them on a daily basis. We run our executions daily. After every execution, we pull information from the Perfecto reporting system and share that with our stakeholders. Having this information accurately reported is pretty important for us, so everybody is aware of the current status of the product. That way, we can evaluate the health of the product or environment against that which has been executed. Therefore, it helps make those real-time decisions and highlights the impact to the business. I found Perfecto to be pretty easy to use while executing against cross-platforms. The main reason is because the same script or test automation where we execute on multiple platforms has minimal changes that I need to do. Also, it is easy for me to set up an execution on one platform, then on another platform, either in parallel or one after the other. Parallel opportunities save me time. Once the execution has been completed across these different configurations, I can always check and compare, e.g., what are the differences and consistencies? We utilize Perfecto’s cloud-based lab to test across devices, browsers, and OSs. I use it occasionally for manual testing. Though, there are other team members who use it more frequently than I do. I use it mainly for executing my automated tests. We have the Perfecto lab, cloud devices, and machines. I can program my test to execute against any of those devices, which gives me more confidence in my product. I can compare and see how my product or application functionally behaves across these different devices and from a UI point of view, which helps me a lot. The device lab is extremely important to our testing operations. We rely on having multiple devices up and running all the time. Whenever we kick off an execution, there are multiple reasons why executions may get triggered: * CodeCommit * A scheduled job. * Might be on-demand by any stakeholder. We need the lab to be available, as we need devices up and running for executions to take place. Also, the devices help since they allow us to have parallel execution, and not just wait for a sequential device to become free and available. Therefore, volume is definitely key. It also gives us an opportunity to compare execution across platforms in that space. It is extremely important to you that the lab provides same-day access to new devices since we analyze that data every single day after execution. Perfecto provides their own framework called Quantum Framework. That is one option. The other option is, if I want to have my own framework, I can have a Java-based Maven project, take a Selenium library, AppiumLibrary, and REST Assured library, and utilize the open-source framework. It is easy for us to connect to Perfecto, no matter what framework we use, as long as it has these core libraries in it. I can design and structure it any way that I want. The execution will happen in Perfecto no matter what since they have support for these tools or libraries. It is pretty neat that way. We are not dependent on using just one particular framework to use Perfecto. While there are still some framework limitations, there is the opportunity to use multiple, different open-source frameworks, then pass the execution to Perfecto. We can use most frameworks, then design and craft it any way that we want, then just pass the execution to Perfecto.

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Pros

"Probably its prime advantage, it provides a centralized location for testing."

"The most beneficial features of the solution are flexibility and versatility in their performance."

"Creating the script is very easy and user friendly."

"We implemented through the vendor, who used highly-skilled professionals."

"For me, LoadRunner stands out, especially with its reporting capabilities, the graphs that can be generated, and the unique feature of measuring our application's response alongside our infrastructure metrics, such as CPU, memory, or disk usage, all presented in graph form. This is something other applications struggle to match."

"What I like most in Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the comparison between two different exhibitions which gives value to my company. I also like that the solution is user-friendly, especially in terms of making specific changes. For example, in the past, you can't see the changes when you upload scripts into the Performance Center, but now, it has that visibility, so whenever you want, you can change the script in the Performance Center. I also like that Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the only tool you can utilize for all your needs, even for different protocols and scripting. The solution also has the latest features, for example, networkability, where it can, within the UI, follow the waterfall model. You can use the insights in the Performance Center of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise to address or test URLs that usually take up much time."

"I like how you can make modifications to the script on LoadRunner Enterprise. You don't have to go into the IDE itself."

"The host performance testing of any application using a host/controller is the most valuable feature."

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"Mobile testing is the most valuable feature as it has reduced dependency on physical devices. We are located offshore and we don't have the physical devices, and shipping physical devices after every new release would be a difficult task. But with Perfecto, it is easy."

"The most valuable feature is automated testing."

"The quality of our software has improved since we implemented this solution."

"In terms of Perfecto's ability to perform cross-platform testing, I would rate it a ten out of ten."

"It saves on the cost and effort of having to maintain our own virtual testing environment. Even our onshore team is not in the city that we work in, so that helps a lot. Even if we didn't invest a lot in getting multiple devices, having to share those devices would become a hassle."

"The reporting feature is really tough to find in some of the other products that are competitors. Having your CITB type dashboard, where we can see the test results and see recordings of each test that passed or failed, is probably one of the distinguishing aspects of Perfecto."

"In terms of cross-platform testing, they offer all of it, every device available in the market. It covers real scenarios that mimic production so that we don't miss out on any devices that our clients might be using to run the applications we develop. It's been great and very helpful."

"The number one feature, which if we didn't have out-of-the-box would be missed, is the fact that we have video execution. That gives us the ability to view errors or defects in the progression, from beginning to the end of the video."

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Cons

"Lacks the option of carrying out transaction comparisons."

"They had wanted to change the GUI to improve the look and feel. However, since that time, we see a lot of hanging issues."

"The TruClient protocol works well but it takes a lot of memory to run those tests, which is something that can be improved."

"Canned reports are always a challenge and a question with customers because customers want to see sexy reports."

"The price of this solution could be less expensive. However, this category of solutions is expensive."

"I believe the data that demonstrates the automated correlations should be corrected."

"We'd like the product to include protocol identifiers whenever a tester wants to test a new application."

"They need to focus on minimizing the cost."

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"I'm hoping that Perfecto will come up with browser testing as well because it would be easier to access it."

"Previously, we used the cradle. Every time the mobile was blocking it, we would have to ask Perfecto to provide another one. That took a lot of time away from us."

"I'm hoping they can support on-premises instances. We have been working on a JIRA integration with Perfecto—and I'm extremely impressed that they have that—but at this time they're not supporting onsite JIRA instances, which is what we have."

"It would be ideal if there was a complete integration with other test management tools and other applications like HPLM, Micro Focus, or Microsoft Azure."

"I would like to see the inclusion of machine learning features. If we can have that, it will be a better tool."

"The monitoring features, in particular network traffic monitoring, could be improved."

"Its performance should be improved. Anything to speed up the user interface would be a great help. We've had a lot of pain with their migration from a product UI that was based on Adobe Flash to the new product that is based on HTML5. Migrations like that seemed to be very painful and not a real smooth process. We're still sort of recovering from that migration from old technology to new, and we haven't got all the functionality ported over that we used to have on the old UI."

"The flakiness, or the accuracy, of the test execution can be improved. Also, the responsiveness of their cloud lab could be improved as well."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We got a very good deal. We are happy with that. We have 5,000 licenses."

"LoadRunner Enterprise's price is high."

"The price of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise could improve, it is expensive."

"We used the Professional version and then moved to the enterprise version. We have subscribed to 1000 user licenses. The tool will be super expensive if we take up 5,000 user licenses. We have to limit ourselves on testing."

"I have not been directly involved in price negotiations but my understanding is that while the cost is a little bit high, it provides good value for the money."

"The price is really steep. It's an enterprise-level tool."

"We got an 80 percent discount for the product. It was cost-effective, but licenses tend to get expensive."

"There is an ROI. What LoadRunner does, is it prevents failures when there are many, many concurrent users in the systems of a company."

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"Although Perfecto is a good product for us to use, it is a bit expensive. It takes management a bit of work to find the appropriate funding for us to keep Perfecto. I imagine there could be some way to make it more accessible."

"Perfecto's price is excellent compared to other products with similar features. It was the lowest of the three we evaluated. We also established a partnership with Perfecto, so they provide discounts when we sell Perfecto projects and licenses to our customers."

"This is an expensive solution compared to others, by 30% to 40%."

"Pricing-wise, it is fine. It is not as expensive as what we used to have in the past from HP, IBM, and others. It is decently priced."

"I am not sure about its pricing, but from our perspective, licensing has been easy. Anytime I have new users or requests for users that want to get added, it's a very simple process. I just give the architectural owner of the product the name and email address, and they're able to easily add a new user. We don't have any issues in regards to getting licenses, but I don't have any insights into pricing."

"It's definitely on the higher end of prices for this type of service."

"Perfecto has definitely saved us on the costs and efforts of having to maintain our own virtual test environment. We lost about 20 devices in the past to maintenance and audit. That was a massive loss for us, as a company, because we were giving devices to someone, but don't know whether we would get it back or not. Having those virtual labs, we don't need to worry about these kinds of things. We are easily saving $5,000 to $10,000 a month on device costing."

"Pricing is an area where Perfecto can do a little better. When we obtain additional licenses, we enter into negotiations with them."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	73

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Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	23

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Also Known As

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Performance Center, HPE Performance Center

Perfecto Mobile, Perfecto Web

Overview

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) provides robust performance testing capabilities with scalable and user-friendly tools. It supports multiple protocols for diverse applications, ensuring reliable and comprehensive performance metrics for organizations.

Designed for extensive performance testing, OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering offers advanced integration features and global testing capabilities. Users value its ease of scheduling, detailed analysis, and efficient resource management. It simulates real-world scenarios to deliver valuable metrics across industries. Its intuitive interface, while needing smoother navigation, aligns with its flexibility and versatility. Enhanced reporting and cloud-based integration, especially with AWS, are potential growth areas alongside improved third-party tool integration and technical support.

What are the key features of OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering?

Reporting Capabilities: Offers detailed and customizable reports for insightful data analysis.
Scalability: Supports testing with thousands of concurrent users for robust application performance validation.
Integration Features: Provides seamless integration options for a cohesive testing environment.
Global Execution: Enables worldwide test execution with ease and flexibility.
Protocol Support: Accommodates a wide range of protocols for versatile application testing.

What benefits should users expect from using OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering?

Improved Performance Metrics: Detailed insights into application stability and performance.
Cost Management: Particularly with enhanced AWS integration, helps manage infrastructure costs.
Industry Versatility: Applicable across sectors like banking, healthcare, and retail.
Flexibility: Adapts to cloud, web, and ERP applications with robust scripting and testing options.

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering is implemented in banking, healthcare, and retail industries, assisting in load, stress, and performance testing. Organizations utilize its capabilities for validating web, API, cloud, ERP, and Citrix applications, ensuring reliability with comprehensive metrics for large-scale user handling.

OpenText

Perfecto is a cloud-based mobile app testing tool that is designed to help test applications on different operating systems and devices. The solution lets users automate processes related to advanced test scenarios and access browser versions and devices according to individual requirements. With Perfecto’s smart test execution capabilities, teams can manage testing across web and mobile platforms using a single script, conduct parallel testing for large test suites, and design advanced user-based test scenarios to accelerate app release cycles. The solution is also helpful for IT departments, providing insights into biometrics, device vitals, audio injection, network throttling, packet loss, and rotation data to meet desired end-user conditions that align with business priorities.

Perfecto Features

Perfecto has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Live Stream analysis
Reporting/analytics
Activity dashboard
Action-word testing
Bug tracking
Debugging
BDD & codeless automation
Model-based testing
Real-time monitoring
Role-based permissions
User management
Test failure analysis
Real user simulation

Perfecto Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Perfecto. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Streamlined test creation: When you use Perfecto, test creation is easy for your teams. Testing frameworks, like Appium, allows you to scale automated test scripts without any issues.

Scalable test execution: Perfecto enables you to accelerate your mobile app testing and is elastically-scaled with no single point of failure, so you can get the testing cadence you need. In addition, the solution makes it possible for you to execute tests from within IDEs as well as through CI servers like Jenkins.

Superior application quality for mobile: By using Perfecto, you can maximize continuous testing and shift quality by combining the solution with BlazeMeter. Together, these two solutions can help you measure mobile user experience, produce high-quality test data on demand, and create realistic mock services.

AI-driven test automation dashboards: The solution’s unique dashboards and heatmaps give you high-level visibility with timelines and trends.

Cloud-based lab: Perfecto’s Smart Testing Lab gives you the tools you need to quickly test your mobile app against thousands of permutations.

Reviews from Real Users

Perfecto is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it has fantastic testing, reporting, and automation capabilities.

Roland C., QA Lead at BMO Financial, says, “The most valuable would be their Live Stream analysis, where I can see the live analysis of all the executions on a single device or multiple devices as well as track them. The live analysis and reporting would be the single most valuable feature.”

Andy B., Systems Engineer at a financial services firm, writes, “I really love the interaction it has with mobile devices, the testing capabilities, as well as reporting capabilities that we get from the application. Perfecto is excellent when it comes to executing cross-platform testing.”

A Director, QE Automation & Analytics at a financial services firm, says, “The most valuable feature is cloud-based automation and testing.”

Another PeerSpot reviewer, Kristina B., Product Manager at a manufacturing company, states, “The solution allows us to do seamless cross-platform testing, saves time, and comes with excellent customer service.”

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Hexaware, British Sky Broadcasting, JetBlue

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