2019-03-10T16:43:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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AN
Real User
Top 20
2024-01-12T08:44:00Z
Jan 12, 2024

The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement.

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NN
Reseller
Top 20
2024-01-11T10:03:00Z
Jan 11, 2024

The solution's pricing is expensive.

Mahendra Andhale - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2024-01-08T11:04:00Z
Jan 8, 2024

It is on the higher side cost-wise, but the usability is good. If they reduced the cost, it would help smaller organizations like ours to take advantage of the features it offers.

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-10-27T10:23:00Z
Oct 27, 2023

The pricing model and the software licensing model could be better.

SM
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-23T14:22:00Z
Oct 23, 2023

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise's pricing is reasonable.

SP
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-20T18:36:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

Shift-left is very new to our organization because we have been using professional/community licenses. We are trying to use enterprise now because, with professionals, it's a one-machine license. It's a single user. We pay a lot for licensing. But the incentive is the support we get with it, that we pay once, and we are set.

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HelenSague - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-20T18:13:00Z
Oct 20, 2023

It is reasonable. We pay the cost, but we have everything. We have a big set of licenses for SAP and other applications. We have all kinds of licenses.

SifisoNhlambo - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-09-01T12:38:00Z
Sep 1, 2023

It is a high-cost investment, particularly for companies with small budgets or limited testing needs.

SM
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-08-10T07:04:29Z
Aug 10, 2023

I have been using the paid version of the product.

Gary_Chen - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2023-06-12T08:18:00Z
Jun 12, 2023

I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten.

RA
MSP
Top 20
2023-05-25T07:28:00Z
May 25, 2023

On a scale of one to ten, where one is low and ten is a high price, I rate the solution a five. So, many things can be done with open-source solutions rather than Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. But LoadRunner provides scalability and stability, which helps save the money of our customers.

Richard Dachowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-03-09T22:03:40Z
Mar 9, 2023

This is not an open-source product. You do have to pay for the solution. However, there are open-source solutions available. The cloud is probably competitive in terms of pricing. However, if you're talking about the on-premise stuff, the professional licenses or the enterprise licenses are on the high side of prices. They're not they're not cheap. The biggest thing about the cloud, and, for that matter, whatever application you're talking about, is that they take care of the headache of you maintaining the infrastructure needed to support your performance testing environment. I've been with LoadRunner long enough to know what it's like to maintain one of those types of environments since the cloud wasn't around ten years ago. Therefore, I've witnessed that the cloud offers significant savings in time and effort from a customer's point of view, even if you pay for it. That said, they don't give it away for free. You have everyone that's doing all the maintenance for you, including setting up your servers and making sure they use to start up the servers appropriately with the right level of software and keep the software up to date and all that stuff. That costs, and that's not free. There's a careful balancing act you have to have between how much you're going to use the cloud, and what you're gonna do on-premise.

KK
Real User
Top 20
2023-01-20T02:16:04Z
Jan 20, 2023

When you compare the cost of other tools such as NeoLoad and LoadNinja, the cost of LoadRunner is on the expensive side. As a result, we are currently considering going with NeoLoad.

Abin K Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-12-29T06:57:49Z
Dec 29, 2022

There's an Enterprise Professional and Cloud option as well. The cloud option is maybe called StormRunner. However, most clients choose on-premises deployments. I use the professional version. I'd rate the solution five out of ten as it is more expensive. There is a free trial for up to 50 users that companies should try.

SJ
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-06T12:41:20Z
Oct 6, 2022

It is very expensive compared to the other tools available in the market. LoadRunner is likely the most expensive one. I'd rate it a one or two out of five in terms of affordability. I'm not aware of the exact cost. I'm not involved in the purchasing.

NamNguyen8 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-09-21T11:29:22Z
Sep 21, 2022

The fee for LoadRunner Professional is very high - about US$500 per user.

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-09-05T14:26:00Z
Sep 5, 2022

The licensing model is complex. You have to pick up the protocol and the number of concurrent users, and then select the level of concurrent users. For example, there would be one price for 100 to 500 users and another for 500 to 2000 users. If you choose two protocols, then you will have to pay twice the amount depending on the number of concurrent users.

Omkar  Sawant - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-16T18:37:06Z
Aug 16, 2022

LoadRunner Professional's licensing costs are on the higher side, apart from the Community Edition. The Community Edition is free but limited to fifty users; after that, you have to pay for extra users.

SG
Real User
2022-08-12T10:43:31Z
Aug 12, 2022

Pricing depends on our choices because it depends on what type of protocol we are getting, what type of licensing we are getting, and what kind of relationships we have with HP and Micro Focus. We can't say how much it will be based on that. I cannot say because we are technical managers and I am not involved in any costing or pricing issues. I am not involved with any pricing. I would rate the pricing a one out of five. It is expensive.

VP
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-08-09T08:17:00Z
Aug 9, 2022

The licensing is on a yearly basis and is relatively expensive.

RS
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-05T08:39:16Z
Aug 5, 2022

I am not aware of the pricing.

Venkat G - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-17T19:33:00Z
Jul 17, 2022

LoadRunner is a little more expensive than other solutions, but there are no hidden costs.

RajeevSAwant - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-07-12T08:21:19Z
Jul 12, 2022

Micro Focus offers several options for licensing, it really depends on the number of users you have and your use case.

HR
Real User
Top 5
2022-05-30T11:00:41Z
May 30, 2022

There is an annual license required to use Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional. There are not any additional costs other than the licensing fees to use it.

SD
Real User
2022-02-20T17:21:54Z
Feb 20, 2022

The licensing of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. If it can be easier and the concurrent run can be included with the current total number of users, it would be helpful.

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-10-05T08:41:32Z
Oct 5, 2020

LoadRunner is the best load testing tool, however, it is very expensive. The factors to purchase are:


1. It can simulate load a large number of concurrent users using small HW resources (CPU memory) compared with others.


2. It has a very specific protocol that other tools don't support since LR have 50+ supported protocols including complex one.


3. Having monitoring tool bundled (SiteScope)


4. The ease of use to


4.1 It can create scripts from recording engine or pcap import (and maintain).


4.2 Analysis module that you can correlate many graphs to find the bottleneck.


If you want to purchase, I suggest the average minimum amount such as the Web 500. However, if you want to perform a large scale or other specific protocols, you can consider purchasing VUser Days (Quota license) on top of it.

Vipul-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5
2022-02-14T10:03:37Z
Feb 14, 2022

LoadRunner is more expensive than some competing products. The pricing is a little too high. However, everything is mostly included in the initial license. It depends on how many nodes you want to set up. This is what determines some of the additional costs.

VG
Real User
2020-12-19T19:07:00Z
Dec 19, 2020

There is a licensing cost that is expensive. There is also the Enterprise version of the software which allows other features that the Professional does not, such as, license sharing.

DA
Real User
2020-11-06T05:22:09Z
Nov 6, 2020

This is not a cheap product.

TD
Real User
2020-09-13T07:02:30Z
Sep 13, 2020

LoadRunner Professional is an expensive product.

it_user1124241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2020-06-15T07:33:57Z
Jun 15, 2020

I don't have any information about how much it costs to run the solution. I know it is expensive, but I don't handle the accounting, so I'm unsure how much our organization actually pays. I don't believe there are other costs beyond the standard licensing fee. There are different licence tiers. We have the maximum, so so don't have to deal with any limitations at any time. There's two types of users on the solution. One is the actual testers. In our organization, we have twenty people using this load. The others are virtual users. The licensing is dependent upon the virtual user and you are charged according to how many virtual users are using the application. Around twenty users are virtual in my organization.

GA
Real User
2020-01-12T12:02:00Z
Jan 12, 2020

The licensing fees are based on the number of users. There is also a free community edition, but it depends on what protocol you're using and how many users you want. Essentially, the licensing fees are based on the need.

SS
Vendor
2019-11-07T10:35:00Z
Nov 7, 2019

There's the licensing fee, and then additional fees on top of that as well.

RV
Real User
2019-05-15T05:16:00Z
May 15, 2019

I don't know the licensing cost, but I think that you would get a discount for normal usage. I think there are different yearly options for different types of usage. It is not only how many users, but also whether it is shareable or not and other criteria involved in each feature. There are additional fees for the users and hardware linked to the processing.

DP
Real User
2019-03-10T16:43:00Z
Mar 10, 2019

Look at the options on other software which are not as pricey as LoadRunner. It's true that LoadRunner has all the features and a lot of ways to help, but then not all companies require such extensive tools. That is where I would probably suggest asking the pricing and the features integrated.

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