blackfire.io vs. k6

blackfire.io

3 Reviews and Ratings

k6

3 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
k6	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Grafana Labs' k6 load testing tool (formerly known as Load Impact)is used to simplify and automate load and performance testing for agile software development teams. Through integration with other automation and Continuous Integration tools, k6 states they enable performance testing earlier in the development cycle.	$59 per month

Pricing

blackfire.io

k6

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Developer: $59
per month (annual plan)
Team: $339
per month (annual plan)
Pro: $1,199
per month (annual plan)
Custom & Enterprise: Contact Sales

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
blackfire.io	k6
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	blackfire.io	k6
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Load testing Pro Performance testing Pro Ci cd
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus User interface Minus No user

Features

blackfire.io

k6

Load Testing

Comparison of Load Testing features of Product A and Product B
	blackfire.io - Ratings	k6 8.0 1 Ratings 5% below category average
End to end performance management	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Real time monitoring	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Automated anomaly detection	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	blackfire.io	k6
Small Businesses	GitLab Score 8.9 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	GitLab Score 8.9 out of 10	JMeter Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	GitLab Score 8.9 out of 10	JMeter Score 8.5 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	blackfire.io	k6
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	blackfire.io	k6
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	Grafana Labs [k6 (formerly Load Impact)] is well suited to run performance automated suites and to run stress tests, spike tests and load tests[.] We can run tests from recorded [sessions] but we cannot run npm modules and we cannot run nod js libs[.] Incentivized Mahmoud Shaaban Senior Validation Engineer 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	Grafana Labs Load testing Stress testing Performance testing Spike testing Incentivized Mahmoud Shaaban Senior Validation Engineer 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	Grafana Labs I would like to see k6 run in browsers I would like to be able to import npm modules I would like to see k6 has a GUI Incentivized Mahmoud Shaaban Senior Validation Engineer 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	Grafana Labs No answers on this topic
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	Grafana Labs K6 make its easy to engage Devs in testing Extremely fast installation make it count for us Not using all system resources is a great benefit Incentivized Mahmoud Shaaban Senior Validation Engineer Read full review
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