Loadrunner Vs Jmeter Vs NeoLoad With Table And Differences
By Sam Z // Thursday, June 12, 2014
Criteria
Loadrunner
Jmeter
NeoLoad
Commercial License
Yes
No (Open Source Tool and has Good Online Community Support)
Yes
Launched By
HP
Apache Foundations
Neotys/NeoLoad
Protocol Coverage
It supports more than 30 protocols including enterprise software SAP
Focus primarily on HTTP and Java-related protocols (JMS, JDBC).Also supports FTP, LDAP, SOAP.
NeoLoad has good support of more than 40 Protocols. It supports enterprise Applications SAP, Oracle Siebel etc.
Record and Playback capability
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Based Recognition
Yes
Yes
Yes
Text Based Recognition
Yes
Yes
Yes
Real Time Test Monitoring
Yes
Minimum
Yes
Result Reporting
Yes
Minimum Support(No GUI Graphs - Need to use additional tools/plugins for graphs)
Yes
Cost
Expensive
Free
Low when compared with the Loadrunner
Load Generation
Depending on Type of License
Unlimited Load Generation
Depending on Type of License
IPSpoofing
Yes
No
Yes
Cloud Based Solution
Yes
No
Yes
Browser Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Firefox Browser
Yes
Yes
Yes
Chrome Browser
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internet Explorer Browser
Yes
Yes
Yes
Device OS Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Android 4.1
Upto 4.0.3
Yes(with additoinal plugins)
Yes
Android 4.1
Yes
Yes(with additoinal plugins)
Yes
Access to Device Logs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Support to PC OS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows XP and above
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mac OSX
No
Yes
No
Linux
Yes(Only Load Generators)
Yes
Yes
Parallel Execution on Multiple Devices
Yes
Yes
Yes