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OpenText Service Virtualization vs ReadyAPI Virtualization comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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

OpenText Service Virtualiza...
Ranking in Service Virtualization
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ReadyAPI Virtualization
Ranking in Service Virtualization
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Service Virtualization category, the mindshare of OpenText Service Virtualization is 15.9%, down from 17.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReadyAPI Virtualization is 11.3%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Service Virtualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Service Virtualization15.9%
ReadyAPI Virtualization11.3%
Other72.8%
Service Virtualization
 

Featured Reviews

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Is scalable and easy to use, but the monitoring feature needs improvement
The support for Micro Focus Service Virtualization is better than that for other products. The technical support staff are highly skilled. Sometimes, we don't have to open a ticket. We can just go into the community and then talk to them directly. I would rate technical support at seven out of ten.
Venkata Yedida - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Good RESTful API support and performs well, but customization is difficult and time-consuming
My advice for anyone who is considering this product is that it is mainly for RESTful calls. If somebody is using Swagger APIs or some RESTful calls as part of the specification that they want to virtualize, then this tool can be a good choice. Also, if they want to virtualize a GUI tool, then it is good. In general, this is a good product but I think that the user experience has to be improved. There's just a lot of manual work that has to be done with scripting. This should be reduced to make it a more seamless experience for the user. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Service Virtualization cuts down dependency across dev as well as any third party components."
"The feature which is most valuable in this solution is the ease of use. The product is very easy to use and very easy to implement."
"It is easy to use. This is what I tell my customers. The coding is easier to develop as well."
"Shift-Left by enabling Build and QA teams to conduct Development Integration/ API / Performance / System Integration Testing Remove wait times for constrained services and speed delivery Reduce infrastructure costs Eliminate expenses from dev/test access to third-party services Reduce downtime risk"
"We choose HPE servers because they're rock solid."
"With Service Virtualization, it's much less expensive and we can turn them off and on when we need to."
"Performance testing and infrastructure costs were reduced because of virtual services."
"The most valuable feature is that it reduces the dependency so that the down time of the environment is not a major cost. That cost can be used for something else like the cloud."
"It only takes a few minutes to get up and running with virtual services and RESTful calls."
"So far expected result has been beneficial to the our environment and system."
"Discovery option to create virtual services."
"Very good for the price point and compared to more expensive or custom development solutions."
"The technical support is good."
"ServiceV Pro enabled our organization to deliver an end-to-end solution by virtualizing external systems, which was easy to implement and provided for a lot of flexibility."
"Ties-in with the rest of the SoapUI platform and its ability to record traffic and create a virtual endpoint."
"The solution is very easy to use."
 

Cons

"The stability of the product, it’s still a work in progress."
"The monitoring feature is not impressive because they use Windows for so much monitoring. They set a lock on the window, and then we have to gather the information from the main monitoring feature in the Windows server. There is not enough capacity for problem solving performance issues."
"HPE products are good, but they never make a product for a specific use."
"Sometimes it stops working after switching remote and local servers."
"As it stands now, the debugging capacity within the tool is fairly limited."
"The developers area Performance testers"
"Pricing is always a concern for our clients, so my guess is if anything can be beat it's price."
"The integration with other solutions, such as ALM and Jira, should be improved."
"Requires more documentation or videos with examples, which is easily understood by the new users."
"The solution does not allow you to export APIs to the cURL command like Postman."
"ServiceV still has some bug in the tools, such as structure of the project, integration, and combination with different tools present."
"This solution has few features for customization."
"ServiceV still has some bug in the tools, such as structure of the project, integration, and combination with different tools present in the same tools, like SoapUI NG and LoadUI."
"Requires more documentation or videos with examples, which is easily understood by the new users."
"The effort required to utilize the capabilities/usage of ServiceV Pro looks like the one area where we could have some further improvements"
"The effort required to utilize the capabilities/usage of ServiceV Pro looks like the one area where we could have some further improvements made just to minimize the time required by a developer to use all the products collaboratively (SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro)."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's an expensive solution, but you can get discounts. You have to buy one server and one designer together, for example, and it may cost 15 million Thai Baht."
"Micro Service Virtualization is very expensive. The pricing of this product is in line with all of the other big name-brand products."
"Ability to have general IT staff enable developers using this software as opposed to more expensive vendors or developers building their own solution."
"Pricing is alright, however more options would be desirable for a fairly new product like ServiceV."
"Be updated with the latest offerings that the tool provides so as to avoid any clashes with issues, like licensing."
"This product is worth the cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Transportation Company
6%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Service Virtualization, HPE Service Virtualization
ServiceV Pro
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Virgin Media, TTNet
Zurich Insurance Group
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText Service Virtualization vs. ReadyAPI Virtualization and other solutions. Updated: April 2026.
893,221 professionals have used our research since 2012.