Apache JMeter vs. BrowserStack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JMeter
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
JMeter, from Apache, is a load and performance testing tool.
$0
BrowserStack
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BrowserStack is a test platform built for developers and QAs to expand test coverage, scale and optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability. BrowserStack states it currently powers over a billion tests a year for customers who include Amazon, Paypal, Well Fargo Bank, Nvidia, MongoDB, Pfizer, GE, Discovery, React JS, Apache, JQuery and several others rely on BrowserStack to test their web and mobile apps.
$0
per month Unlimited users and 5000 free screenshots
Pricing
Apache JMeterBrowserStack
Editions & Modules
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Percy - Free
$0
per month Unlimited users and 5000 free screenshots
App Percy - Free
$0
per month 5000 free screenshots and 100 minutes of infrastructure
Test Observability - Unlimited Free
$0
Accessibility Testing - Free
$0
Test Observability - Observability Pro
$0.01
per month per test execution
Percy - Desktop
$0.02
per month per screenshot
App Percy - Visual Core
$0.02
per month per screenshot
Percy - Desktop & Mobile
$0.02
per month per screenshot
App Percy - Visual Cloud
$0.03
per month per screenshot
Live - Desktop
$29
per month per user
Live - Desktop & Mobile
$39
per month per user
App Live - Individual
$39
per month per user
Automate - Desktop
$129
per month 1 parallel test
Live - Team
$150
per month 5 users
App Live - Team
$150
per month 5 users
Automate - Desktop & Mobile
$199
per month 1 parallel test
App Automate - Device Cloud
$199
per month 1 parallel test
App Live - Team Pro
$199
per month 5 users
Accessibility Testing - Team
$199
per month 5 users
App Automate - Device Cloud Pro
$249
per month 1 parallel test
Automate - Enterprise
Contact sales team
Percy - Enterprise
Contact Sales
App Automate - Enterprise
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App Live - Enterprise
Contact sales team
Live - Enterprise
Contact sales team
App Automate - Device Cloud Pro + Visual Cloud
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App Percy - Enterprise
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Test Observability - Enterprise
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Accessibility Testing - Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JMeterBrowserStack
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Apache JMeterBrowserStack
Considered Both Products
JMeter

No answer on this topic

BrowserStack
Chose BrowserStack
We chose BrowserStack as our solution as it provides a comprehensive, all-in-one package. This integrated approach ensures that all your needs are met in one place, eliminating the need for multiple tools or services. It streamlines processes, improves efficiency, and …
Chose BrowserStack
It is one of the product which each software organisation should include in their end to end product development journey. I have explored other products in this category and I can proudly say that BrowserStack is a clear winner in terms of its Features, Performance and Product …
Chose BrowserStack
Price looks little high for browserstack , they need to introduce more flexible plans to stack their customers, support team must be more quick, sometimes they take more than 2-3 days to resolve the issue. other tools are available in less cost with same features. so later on …
Chose BrowserStack
Due to better Mobile App testing feature, we choose browserstack
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Apache JMeterBrowserStack
Load Testing
Comparison of Load Testing features of Product A and Product B
Apache JMeter
7.5
24 Ratings
12% below category average
BrowserStack
-
Ratings
End to end performance management9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated performance data8.822 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility6.421 Ratings00 Ratings
Real time monitoring8.921 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated anomaly detection4.518 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses

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User Ratings
Apache JMeterBrowserStack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(39 ratings)
8.8
(176 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(12 ratings)
7.3
(14 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(19 ratings)
Availability
1.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.9
(77 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(21 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Online Training
1.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(6 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apache JMeterBrowserStack
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
JMeter is well suited for Java applications where the user can script the scenario once and make changes to accommodate for as many numbers of users for load test execution. The image and selection of any files or exporting files scenario is handled well.
It is less appropriate to test Ajax applications where it is required to script click per use.
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BrowserStack
It is very easy to integrate with the Testing or Development Framework that we use. We were able to do the integration seamlessly with our own framework built using Java-Appium/Selenium. The documentation available on each Browserstack product on the website is very detailed and really helpful. We even found using Browserstack with other tools like Appium Inspector to inspect our applications really easy.
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Pros
Apache
  • Easy of use - in generate load like HTTP requests, and processing/analyzing the responses. No coding is necessary at the basic level, just need to understand load testing and the infrastructure being tested.
  • Automatic management of things like cookies to help with session state support - so you don't specifically have to worry about it or handle it
  • Lots of testing/configuration options to suit your needs in making the right load generation (sampling requests), and analyzing the results, including any pre and post processing of the results first. Things like the Beanshell/BSF pre/post processors, response assertion, regular expression extractor, XPath extractor, CSV data set config
  • There is a JMeter cloud service called BlazeMeter that I think would be useful for those that need to scale up high load without provisioning their own systems. I've not personally tried it though, but I recently attended a meetup presentation that highlighted nice useful features that BlazeMeter provides. One should evaluate the service if they are considering JMeter and need to expand beyond existing hardware resources.
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BrowserStack
  • It gets the backend logs that is pretty useful for getting backend end errors
  • The connection with the BrowserStack devices are quick and easy to setup
  • BrowserStack provides a lot of documentation to guide you when you're starting to use BrowserStack
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Cons
Apache
  • Jmeter requires many tweaks with respect to its configuration file and thread properties. users need to edit theses files themselves. There could be some interface where we can edit this fields.
  • Jmeter cannot handle more threads and hangs up when we increase the number of threads. This causes lot of inconvenience. In these situations, user can be notified that such change would be lead to slow performance so that user can do as required. The same appears when we try to view huge files on graph listener.
  • Jmeter should optimize the read and write access to output csv since it acts as overhead to the I/O performance. This affects our test results for the application which we are testing.
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BrowserStack
  • Easier way to screen record just the mobile screen during App Live sessions. Current solution of recording via browser tab seems clumsy
  • Easier way to measure app launch time, screen load time etc during App Live sessions
  • Suggest on script improvement based on waiting time on screens etc in App automate dashboard.
  • Group tests which failed due to same reason so that root cause analysis can go faster.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apache
Price, Wiki and user sharing. Having access to the information provided by the developers and other open source providers is key for me. The ability to share information and get answers directly is very important to success in software testing. And the price of this product currently is amazing. Too many companies charge way too much money for products that are far behind in their value and pertinence
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BrowserStack
This decisions mostly taken by senior management at VP and CEO level, they also need approval from many other teams like dev, design according to the use, and finance due to competitive cost, They do check other product as well, and I am just a single person from QA team, and not a decision maker
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Usability
Apache
I can jump right into a new test plan and start building from scratch. The natural progression from test plan to thread group and then designing the basic format of the process is very streamlined and smooth. With only slight modifications I can build out a very complex model from a very basic beginning.
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BrowserStack
It integrates directly in internal networks and local development. The point and click interface of choosing your device, pick the browser/version and you have a working emulation of that exact environment. What else could you ask for? I've set our least computer savvy users up with BrowserStack for testing in minutes. It feels like it's just part of your local environemnt.
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Reliability and Availability
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
Till now have not faced any outage Whenever we have taken help from the Browserstack Support team, they have given prompt and helpful answers
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Performance
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
The tests are fast considering the fact that they're Appium tests. I've seen tests reliably pass or fail when they're supposed to, with next to zero issues on the BrowserStack side of things. Tests launch only seconds after I kick off them off from my CLI.
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Support Rating
Apache
I have been using JMeter for the last year. By using this tool, you can make sure the system will work under varied loads. It helps us to simulate real time scenarios by creating required virtual users and make sure the application will work under load. Perform load, stress, and stability testing using JMeter.
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BrowserStack
I'm saying a 10 for support for BrowserStack only based on feedback from the development team. I myself have never had to reach out to support for any questions or issues, but others in the company have. From my conversations with them, the support was fantastic and had been a pleasure working with the BrowserStack team.
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In-Person Training
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
Yes, it was online training on meet, and trainer looks like skilled and technical strong, he has covered end to end all the features and he has answers all the queries. because of this trainings we are able to implement it by our own in the organization, thank you for support and training.
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Online Training
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
It was a quick training from the support of browserstack, it was nice and easy to understand, thanks again for the support given by the team. and regularly I used to receive mails for training from support for any new feature they launch, I was able to spread same training to all my team and dev.
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Implementation Rating
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
It was new learning for me, till the time I was not aware of such tools are available for manual CBT testing and for automation integration caue I was using some VM for testing, it has increase my knowledge and skill set. It was a fun while implementation and I enjoyed it.
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Alternatives Considered
Apache
I have used LoadRunner and Silkperformer, and so far Jmeter turns out be the easiest to use of all these. While each of them have their own ROI, Jmeter can be picked by anyone in hours and start testing within a day. While with other tools, we need to get license, install them (takes a while) and setup tests and firewalls, etc.
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BrowserStack
We did a benchmark to compare multiple criterias: Security, reliability, Sound, Variety of devices, availability of devices, how long before new released devices are made available, easy to use, extra features, customer support, company reference, integration with our tools. BrowserStack got the highest score and the overall price was also cheaper than their competitors.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
No Vendors were involved, directly dealt with Browserstack
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Scalability
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
I may not be the best person to answer this as I am only using it for 1 department and at 1 site but will still try my best As far as Scalability for Devices for Mobile Automation is concerned, it gets a Solid 10, as the users can run cases on upto 10 device parallel and also have the best choices of devices to choose
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Professional Services
Apache
No answers on this topic
BrowserStack
Not used
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • Good ROI on improving the performance of the application.
  • Finding issues in the performance.
  • Benchmark the performance results.
  • CON: Need skillset to create and maintain the scripts in Java.
  • Scripts are reusable and it is executed by any user.
  • Need Client and Server setup to execute the scripts.
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BrowserStack
  • It reduced the cost of buying multiple devices as we have multiple devices access in it
  • Easily accessible from anywhere due to it cloud availability
  • Introducing this to our client also helped us in building trust as well as winning their confidence during deliverables
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