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At a Glance
Gatling
Gatling
Star Rating
(61)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (40.0% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial Per Month
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k6
k6
Star Rating
(31)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (66.7% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Not enough data
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Gatling vs k6

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found k6 easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with k6 overall.

  • Reviewers felt that k6 meets the needs of their business better than Gatling.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that k6 is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of k6 over Gatling.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Gatling
Gatling Enterprise Cloud and Self-Hosted
Free Trial
Per Month
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k6
No pricing available
Free Trial
Gatling
Free Trial is available
k6
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.5
53
9.3
14
Ease of Use
7.7
53
9.2
15
Ease of Setup
7.8
25
9.6
9
Ease of Admin
7.6
24
9.4
9
Quality of Support
7.9
44
9.3
14
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.8
23
9.3
9
Product Direction (% positive)
8.5
48
10.0
14
Features by Category
8.1
45
9.0
13
Functionality
9.0
43
9.5
13
7.5
33
9.2
12
8.0
39
8.6
13
Reporting
8.0
44
8.6
13
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Software Testing
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Gatling
Gatling
k6
k6
Gatling and k6 are categorized as Load Testing Tools
Unique Categories
Gatling
Gatling is categorized as Software Testing
k6
k6 has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Gatling
Gatling
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
35.0%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
40.0%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
25.0%
k6
k6
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
6.7%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
66.7%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
26.7%
Reviewers' Industry
Gatling
Gatling
Computer Software
25.0%
Information Technology and Services
13.3%
Banking
10.0%
Retail
8.3%
Computer & Network Security
5.0%
Other
38.3%
k6
k6
Computer Software
26.7%
Information Technology and Services
16.7%
Telecommunications
6.7%
Retail
6.7%
Financial Services
6.7%
Other
36.7%
Alternatives
Gatling
Gatling Alternatives
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TestRail
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k6
k6 Alternatives
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Apache JMeter
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Locust
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LoadView
LoadView
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Discussions
Gatling
Gatling Discussions
Is Gatling better than JMeter?
1 Comment
What are the protocols supported by Gatling?
1 Comment
Peter D.
PD
Hey there, I'm the Customer Success Team Lead here at Gatling. Apologies for the delayed reply. We have native support for HTTP, HTTPs, MQTT, and JMS....Read more
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k6
k6 Discussions
Hi guys, please teach me how to write the response body o whatever data, in a txt file, csv o .dat file as a dataset for subsequent requests. ?
1 Comment
Pepe C.
PC
Hi Cesar, we could assist you better if you post your question to the k6 OSS community forum: https://community.k6.io/c/k6-support/ It would be...Read more
What is k6 performance tool?
1 Comment
Marcin B.
MB
Basically, it's a powerful, modern framework for performance testing.Read more
Monty the Mongoose crying
k6 has no more discussions with answers