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    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

    $0.05

    Per Hour Per Instance

    TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest) is a full-stack, AI-native quality engineering platform that lets teams plan, author, execute and analyse software quality in one place, across web, mobile and AI applications. Performance and load testing: TestMu AI runs JMeter .jmx plans and Gatling simulations unchanged, at protocol level, on managed cloud load generators that are provisioned for each run across six regions and removed when it ends, so there is no load…

    $19

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Google App EngineTestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Virtual Live
    $19
    per month Parallel Test
    Real Device Plus Live
    $49
    per month 1 parallel test
    Test Manager
    $59
    per month per seat
    Web Automation on Desktop
    $99
    per month Parallel Test
    Virtual Automation Cloud
    $159
    per month Parallel Test
    HyperExecute Cloud (Multi OS)
    $199
    per month Parallel Test
    Real Device + Automation Cloud
    $249
    per month Parallel Test
    SmartUI Visual Regression
    $269
    per month Parallel Test
    Kane AI (Mobile + Web)
    $349
    per month Parallel Test
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Parallel Test
    HyperExecute On-Premise
    Custom Pricing
    per parallel test
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google App EngineTestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    98%
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    10 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    89 Answers
    Features
    Google App EngineTestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Google App Engine and TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Google App EngineTestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Google App EngineTestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (70 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    9.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Google App EngineTestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
    Incentivized
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    TestMu AI
    One day, I needed to test a specific issue that was occurring only on Pixel phones. I turned to LambdaTest, quickly identified the problem, and was able to fix it. There hasn't been a situation where I felt LambdaTest didn't help, it's my go-to solution for testing, as it solves many problems.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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    TestMu AI
    • Very accessible as multiple users can be added in each subscription
    • Very reliable as it is very close to the actual device when it comes to operating system and version behavior
    • There are a lot of options for devices and browsers that users can choose from when it comes to emulating and testing
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    Cons
    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    TestMu AI
    • More real devices should be added like I have Samsung mobile but it was not in the list
    • It takes time in checking the link on LambdaTest if we compare with real mobiles
    • Sometimes exact results are not matching as from real mobiles
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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    TestMu AI
    The reason i have given the 10 points becasue the problem LambdaTest solves is providing access to all devices in one place, allowing developers to identify the same errors they would encounter on real devices. This makes life much easier, especially for developers who regularly face cross-device functionality issues. It's a big plus point that positions LambdaTest as an all-in-one solution.
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    Usability
    Google
    I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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    TestMu AI
    Because of the ease of use of the platform, we just save a lot of time and effort with this as its a feature rich solution, we just need to upload app binary once and for everytime we need to test on a different device we can just directly install that binary on the device without the pain of reupload.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    TestMu AI
    yes always available
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    TestMu AI
    haven't found any glitch while using this
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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    TestMu AI
    The customer support team is very active and cooperative. Once, I contacted them in their off timings because of an issue, I got an instant reply from the executive and he resolved the issue very efficiently. This is why we have been using LambdaTest for more than two years. It is best suited for us.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    TestMu AI
    Implementation of Lambdatest was very easy for different project requirements.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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    TestMu AI
    While BrowserStack is also a well-established platform, we found LambdaTest to offer similar and even better features at reasonable pricing. LambdaTest is more cost-effective than BrowserStack. LambdaTest provides a free forever plan, while BrowserStack does not. Even manual testing plans are better priced than BrowserStack’s. In terms of UI and onboarding, we found LambdaTest more user-friendly as well.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    TestMu AI
    not all department, but we're using for our clients
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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    TestMu AI
    • Automation testing has a bit of a learning curve
    • Lack of real device keep that bug in your head if not on the website.
    • Need to wait for a while for a new OS or browser version on the contrary of immediate availability in case of owning a lab
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    TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest) Screenshots

    Screenshot of An automated screenshot.Screenshot of Mobile-browser-testingScreenshot of Automation testing on LambdatestScreenshot of Some of the available integrations.Screenshot of Real-time testingScreenshot of Responsive testing