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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.4
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud boosts ROI with cost savings, easy performance testing, effective load management, and improved customer experiences.
Sentiment score
7.3
Users find OpenText LoadRunner Professional provides strong ROI by improving performance, reducing outages, and saving costs through efficiency.
The ROI is not necessarily cost savings. Sometimes a customer wants to use OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, or it's the only tool that will solve the problem depending on the application.
LoadRunner Cloud helps with risk elimination by reducing performance degradation in production, ensuring a better end-user experience.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud's customer service is generally praised, but technical support experiences are mixed, impacting satisfaction levels.
Sentiment score
6.1
OpenText LoadRunner Professional's support is generally efficient but inconsistent, with users rating it between six to nine.
It's important to note that OpenText has recently taken over Micro Focus.
If I need to rate support from one to ten, I would say it is a nine.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud excels in scalability, supporting varied user loads efficiently, with flexible cloud architecture, despite potential costs.
Sentiment score
7.3
OpenText LoadRunner Professional excels in scalable user loads and supports cloud integration, despite cost and resource challenges.
It is very scalable, and on the cloud, it's even more scalable, potentially unlimited.
With load generators available, it is easily scalable to meet our needs.
The solution is highly scalable, which is its main feature.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is widely regarded for its stability, with only occasional minor issues promptly resolved by support teams.
Sentiment score
7.7
OpenText LoadRunner Professional is highly stable and reliable, with occasional issues during large tests and minor compatibility challenges.
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is extremely stable for our use case.
 

Room For Improvement

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud needs improvements in reporting, interface, compatibility, documentation, technical support, and modern tool integration.
OpenText LoadRunner Professional requires simplified use, affordable pricing, better support, and improved integration with modern technologies and tools.
In-depth analysis tools found in the standalone LoadRunner analysis, such as graph merging and setting granularity, would be beneficial.
I expect an improvement in the cloud location offering to better serve local applications, particularly to enhance testing accuracy for users in regions like Thailand.
I find that AI functionality in OpenText LoadRunner Professional should be improved and more accessible.
 

Setup Cost

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud offers flexible, cost-effective pricing for SaaS, despite higher costs compared to some competitors, supporting numerous protocols.
LoadRunner's costly licensing is offset by comprehensive features, making it ideal for large-scale testing, despite cost-effective alternatives.
It's delivering functionality, but we also use JMeter, which is free.
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud pricing is flexible, offering a more affordable solution compared to the more expensive on-premise LoadRunner.
 

Valuable Features

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud offers scalable performance testing with easy automation, seamless integration, and extensive protocol support for diverse environments.
OpenText LoadRunner Professional offers robust scripting, protocol support, scalability, and detailed analysis for efficient large-scale performance testing.
Its LoadRunner functionality allows us to record a solution's networking protocol and replay them.
A significant difference is in its depth of analysis.
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud can scale in a cloud-based environment to support up to ten thousand concurrent users without capacity loss, which is not possible with on-premise solutions on personal machines.
The most valuable feature of OpenText LoadRunner Professional is the analysis part that is really good, along with the support for multiple protocols.
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud
Ranking in Performance Testing Tools
6th
Ranking in Load Testing Tools
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText LoadRunner Profess...
Ranking in Performance Testing Tools
4th
Ranking in Load Testing Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Performance Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText LoadRunner Cloud is 9.2%, up from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText LoadRunner Professional is 13.9%, up from 13.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud-based testing accommodates high user scenarios while anticipating location improvement
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud can scale in a cloud-based environment to support up to ten thousand concurrent users without capacity loss, which is not possible with on-premise solutions on personal machines. This scalability and network bandwidth capability are essential for high-scale load testing. Additionally, it allows me to upload common LoadRunner scripts to the cloud for testing without requiring a license for scripting tools, offering a flexible and comfortable high-scale load testing solution.
HelenSague - PeerSpot reviewer
A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications
I do not have any big challenges with LoadRunner. I only have some issues with load generators. It is a very common issue, and I hope it will be resolved in the latest release. For example, when we start to run our tests, users get the message that the load generator exceeded 80% of the CPU utilization. Even when the number of users is less, we get these messages. I am trying to resolve it, but it is not going. It is annoying. It is not a failure, but I hope that it will be resolved. IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on.
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Comparison Review

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Apr 13, 2014
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Do you recommend Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud?
I absolutely recommend Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud. In fact, I consider it to be one of the best performance testing tools. I like it because it provides many benefits. Some of the ones I find to...
What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud?
One of LoadRunner's standout features is its extensive support for various TechStacks and protocols.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud?
OpenText LoadRunner Cloud pricing is flexible, offering a more affordable solution compared to the more expensive on-premise LoadRunner. The hourly usage model allows cost-saving when used rightly.
What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs.
What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?
I would like to improve OpenText LoadRunner Professional based on what we discussed in our last discussion, as those points remain similar and applicable. For future updates, I would like to see th...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud, StormRunner Load, LoadRunner Cloud, and Micro Focus StormRunner Load
Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, Micro Focus LoadRunner, HPE LoadRunner, LoadRunner
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Alfa Bank, N Brown Group, University of Copenhagen, McGraw-Hill, Cognizant
JetBlue, GOME, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, RMIT University, Virgin Media
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