blackfire.io vs. PerfDog

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
blackfire.io
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
PerfDog
Score 0.0 out of 10
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PerfDog is a cross-platform performance testing tool that collects over 200 metrics including FPS, CPU, memory, and GPU data from Android and iOS devices in real time, without requiring root or jailbreak access.N/A
Pricing
blackfire.ioPerfDog
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
blackfire.ioPerfDog
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPerfDog uses a subscription-based pricing model with flexible testing minute packages. Pricing varies based on the volume of testing minutes purchased. PerfDogService for automated testing requires a separate subscription and token. Enterprise plans with private deployment options are available upon request.
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User Ratings
blackfire.ioPerfDog
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
blackfire.ioPerfDog
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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WeTest
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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
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