blackfire.io vs. BlazeMeter

blackfire.io

3 Reviews and Ratings

BlazeMeter

25 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
blackfire.io	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Blackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow. The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web…	N/A
BlazeMeter	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	The BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform, supported by Broadcom since the acquisition of CA Technologies in 2018 and now by Perforce since the September 2021 acquisition, provides scriptless test automation, as well as unified functional and performance testing. It allows users to test and monitor public, private, and 3rd party APIs, and is deployable as a SaaS, or deployed from a private cloud.	$199 per month

Pricing

blackfire.io

BlazeMeter

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $149.00
per month
Pro: $649.00
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
blackfire.io	BlazeMeter
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	blackfire.io	BlazeMeter
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Open source Pro Faster and easier Pro Load testing
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Learning curve Minus High learning curve Minus Drill down

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	blackfire.io	BlazeMeter
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User Ratings
	blackfire.io	BlazeMeter
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	blackfire.io	BlazeMeter
Likelihood to Recommend	Blackfire Blackfire.io is super helpful in allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. Blackfire.io provides actionable insights to improve code proactively by integration with the development software. Also tracks the live production environment and is able to highlight any loading issues or unusual bounce rates. Blackfire.io also monitors HTTP requests and SQL queries which again help improve efficiency for developers and reduce development time. Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Perforce Software It is well suited for applications that are mission-critical or applications that can receive high traffic/transactions at unscheduled time periods. Using the load testing feature of BlazeMeter, we can test and ascertain the capacity of the application without the drawbacks of the usual Apache JMeter load testing which depends heavily on the host system from where the load testing is performed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Blackfire Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Perforce Software Results are easy to read Tests can be run easily Tests can ben imported easily from jMeter Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Blackfire They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles Customer service needs a lot of improvement The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Perforce Software BlazeMeter should not require the purchase of 2 dedicated IPs for each suite of performance tests. BlazeMeter should make custom packages cheaper than they are today when purchased for an enterprise and should include dedicated IPs in the package. BlazeMerer should have integration with Jenkins Pipeline 2.0. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Blackfire blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a level of reporting that were did not find any competing products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Perforce Software Personally, I prefer using JMeter + Redline13, however we had some business folks that wanted to be able to run a few of their own tests. The non-technical individuals preferred to use Blazemeter because of its simple and intuitive UI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Blackfire Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers 2x decrease in load time for the website 100% performance validation before production release Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Perforce Software It helped positively by helping to identify the maximum capacity needed for high traffic periods Saved revenue by eliminating unwanted duplication of systems Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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