# Akamai CloudTest Reviews **Vendor:** Akamai Technologies **Category:** [Load Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About Akamai CloudTest CloudTest provides a comprehensive performance platform for quickly validating and optimizing web and mobile user experience. ## Akamai CloudTest Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Akamai CloudTest to be **easy to use** , facilitating seamless testing for mobile applications across various environments. (6 reviews) - Users praise Akamai CloudTest for its **optimal app performance** in real-world scenarios and seamless framework integration. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **cloud compatibility** of Akamai CloudTest, enabling real-time testing and global accessibility for optimal performance. (3 reviews) - Users value the **powerful mobile app testing tools** of Akamai CloudTest for ensuring optimal performance in various conditions. (3 reviews) - Users value the **performance optimization** capabilities of Akamai CloudTest, ensuring apps excel in real-world conditions. (3 reviews) - Tools (3 reviews) - Availability (2 reviews) - Cloud-Based Hosting (2 reviews) - Easy Integrations (2 reviews) - Insights (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **limited customization options** in Akamai CloudTest restrictive, hindering complex testing scenarios and flexibility. (4 reviews) - Users find Akamai CloudTest **expensive** , making it difficult for small organizations to afford the tool. (3 reviews) - Users find the **limited features** of Akamai CloudTest restrictive, hindering advanced testing capabilities and diversity in tool usage. (2 reviews) - Users find the **poor documentation** of Akamai CloudTest challenging, wishing for more detail and user-friendly guidance. (2 reviews) - Users find Akamai CloudTest helpful for real-time loads, but face **configuration issues** with its XML setup flexibility. (1 reviews) - Device Unavailability (1 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (1 reviews) - Limited Options (1 reviews) - Navigation Issues (1 reviews) - Testing Difficulties (1 reviews) ## Akamai CloudTest Reviews ### 1. Akamai CloudTest **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagesh J. | Lead Digital Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** 1. able to export and import the cloud test objects. 2. Increase the cloud memory which help us to store more data in cloud 3. global network capacity of 300+ Tbp **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Integration of these tools with the leading EPM tools **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Troubleshoot CloudTest Grid Errors 2.Setting up the CloudTest Conductor and monitoring devices ### 2. Best mobile app testing tools available **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atul C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** Akamai cloud testing offers different tools for mobile app testing to ensure optimal app performance in real-world scenarios. It also supports integration with Selenium like test automation framework. It is cloud based testing framework which makes it always and everywhere available. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Sometimes, running complex testing scenarios can be challenging with limited customization options for scripts. Being a cloud framework, It has dependency on Akmai Infrastructure and also cost is on higher size, so its tough for small organizations to afford it. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us with simulation of real world network condition and traffic during mobile app testing. It can distribute traffic accross multiple servers so load can be well balanced. The framework also provides mobile app performance reports. ### 3. One of the Best Mobile App Testing Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atul C. | Associate Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** Akamai cloud testing is a powerful mobile app testing solution that provides tools for apps to perform optimally under real-world conditions.i It also support integration with popular test automation frameworks, such as Appium and Selenium, making it easy for developers to incorporate cloud testing into their existing testing processes. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Cost and dependency on Akmai infrastructure. Scripts are limited in terms of customization options, which can make it challenging to run more complex testing scenarios. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to test mobile apps on real devices, browsers, and operating systems which helps to achieve better quality, performance apps.It also helped us to identify and fix the defects. ### 4. Very good Test available at Akamai CloudTest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhadip K. | Senior Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** This is a real time cloudtest which helps to enrich the product capabilities, capacities by huge traffic. Its a good and useful tool for system or application's health checkup. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** need to involve more for computing related staffs . This product is helpful for real time load run . but could be more flexible with xml setup. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many problems solved by using Akamai CloudTest. Many more function involved so that we able to test all the load testing function, by thread , class and control . ### 5. Akamai Cloud Test is just Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vamshi K. | Specialist Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** Very indepth knowledge I gain in akamai Cloud Test. Very helpful in my professional career. Easy to perform load and stress testing. And also quickly validating the user experience. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** It should clear documentation and user friendly. And also Expecting to allow few more scripting options to the cloud. Maintain a support page for resources can post there blockers and expert can answer to that questions. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** More helpful in predicting the user pluse performance Testing.And also it is helping our application balancing load test on day to day traffic. ### 6. "Akamai Cloud Test Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Reliable" **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhijeet K. | Assistant Vice President, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** its ability to simulate realistic user traffic, comprehensive test reporting, integration with other Akamai tools, and high levels of security and scalability. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Some practical experiments would add more value to it. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** At this time when everyone is moving towards mobiles and apps. App testing is an area which needs some dedicated time and resources. Akamai is helping to do it with ease. ### 7. Realtime stimulation of Applications (Scalable service with limited scripting options) **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** It focuses more on load and stress testing stimulating a real-time setup in test environments. Moreover, this tool helps quickly identify any predictable issue as it allows users to monitor the performance of their services. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** A limited number of scripting options are available, putting this tool at a disadvantage for organisations that wish to diversify their tech stack and require advanced capabilities. It also means that dedicated resources need to be assigned. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** As the traffic is increasing every second, organisations face a continuous challenge to tune the performance of their application. Akamai helps scale the application horizontally by adding more servers and data centres. It also routes users to the nearest data centres using its feature of Load Balancing. ### 8. Intranet mobile app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** This provides a scalable and cost-effective way to test mobile applications across a wide range of devices, operating systems, and network conditions. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** This tool is a valuable tool for mobile app testing with some downsides like limited device selection, high pricing and will need to improve navigations. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is designed to solve several problems that arise when testing mobile applications in a cloud-based environment. Some of the problems that Akamai CloudTest addresses include Device fragmentation, Network variability, Cost and scalability, and benefits are improved app performance, cost saving etc. ### 9. Great Performance Testing Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saksham A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** It's easy to use GUI along with the capability to perform testing in different load conditions. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** It's documentation could be more detailed and should be more user friendly. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping in balancing the load across remote hosts and we can configure or modify the load according to our requirement in between the test too. ### 10. Highly recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thangamala G. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** The accurate test results are the bedt part about Akamai CloudTest. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Nothing I found so far to dislike about Akamai CloudTest **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** For the newly created apps I'll use this platform for wide range of testing ### 11. Review of G2 Akamai Cloudtest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravindra Reddy M. | QA Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** Usability and compatability of the product to local networks **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Technical skills required for the user to access the system **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves issues of the stimulation and ### 12. Performance testing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** It is one of the easiest performance test. The GUI is very user friendly. Their is option of 2 types of correlations - manual correlations and automatic correlations. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Their are some new functionalities such as burst. Also, recording with conductor sometimes consumes a lot of time. You can use the chrome extension instead of conductor **Recommendations to others considering Akamai CloudTest:** Nice tool for performance testing **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used akamai cloud test aka soasta for load testing purpose of an ecommerce application. Conducting stress test with akamai cloud test is very easy. You can increase the user mid way also ### 13. Very interesting tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillermo C. | Manager Business Application Platforms Audit Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** It allows you to measure performance and provides real time analytics **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** So far I do no see any downsides, it seems to be a really complete tool **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows you to measure performance in real time and also get data in real time ### 14. Bot prevention - Akamai **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** Simple UI, easy to use, and is easily configurable. It has lots of resources as well for help and guidance. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Since there are many resources, sometimes it isn't easy to find the solution online if not searched with proper keywords. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Akamai for cross-browser testing and bot mitigation. We make sure that bots are unable to perform any transactional tasks on the website. ### 15. Scalable And Stable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward L. | Campaign Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** The agents on the cloud have been extremely valuable for us. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** The test clip should be more user-friendly. **Recommendations to others considering Akamai CloudTest:** It all depends on what you're looking for, but this solution is exactly what we need for performance testing and load testing of this. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** After running the load test we can determine the capacity our backend can handle. ### 16. Revolutionary in Performance testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raju K. | Assistant Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** CloudTest has the ability to generate load on multiple locations and it has Cloud load agents on-demand integration with AWS **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** Technical documentation and support is very minimal and It is difficult to find an expert in case of any difficulties **Recommendations to others considering Akamai CloudTest:** Yes, I recommend others considering CloudTest for Load and Performance Testing **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to buy hardware to generate load in premises and getting the accurate number of users for dynamic ramp-up load was a challenge. We were able to generate the load on Multiple Geographies and generated the huge number of the load with accuracy. ### 17. Accurate and fast to perform realistic load testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Preety K. | Director of Human Resources, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** I like the feature to integrate with AWS and it has the ability to simulate the real user experience to generate load in a different location from across the world. Integrated access to all major public cloud platforms, plus customers' internal private cloud and even bare-metal hardware for use in scalable internal and external tests. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** CloudTest is a cloud-hosted tool, hence, the initial setup would need whitelisting to access on-premise application under test and this is a huge time taking action. Documentation needs improvement to debug the issues occurs during the test. **Recommendations to others considering Akamai CloudTest:** I recommend others to consider CloudTest **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using the local machines to generate the load and it was not accurate and consistent. We moved to CloudTest which is hosted on the cloud and tested the application using loads from across the locations in a very short time. ### 18. Scalable Load Testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** I appreciate the ability to load test without needing to involve dozens of extra players on my side. CloudTest takes all the work off of my plate. **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** I do wish it was a bit cheaper. I could stand to load test more often than I do but the price is sometimes prohibitive. **Recommendations to others considering Akamai CloudTest:** Definitely pair this solution with a synthetic test like Rigor because otherwise, you'll miss a good portion of what the end user is seeing. **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** Far and away the best thing I have learned from CloudTest is how to better prepare my website for peak periods. I'm used to synthetic testing showing basic performance but knowing for sure how it responds when under load has helped me scale infrastructure to keep the experience as good as when it's not under as much load. ### 19. CloudTest Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Akamai CloudTest?** Ease of use, Support to pretty much any given cloud provider, flexibility of the tool to run test etc., **What do you dislike about Akamai CloudTest?** It might get a little slow when it comes to resolving issues via support tickets **What problems is Akamai CloudTest solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Performance issues. The quick scalability cuts down time to ship products to Production in a very efficient manner ## Akamai CloudTest Discussions - [What is Akamai CloudTest used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-akamai-cloudtest-used-for) - [View Akamai CloudTest pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-cloudtest/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A32%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f471f26c-3ea0-4760-b3fa-2ce361e9a686&secure%5Btoken%5D=b11d8bffc197253794ecb147ef8a4c615f71158ddecb3af29b2a237583a5fe2e&format=llm_user) ## Akamai CloudTest Features **Functionality** - Stress Testing - Extreme Cases - Test Variety **Functionality** - Test Feedback - Test Variety - Emulation **Reporting** - Reporting **Management** - Test History - Automation - Organization ## Top Akamai CloudTest Alternatives - [BrowserStack](https://www.g2.com/products/browserstack/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,233 reviews) - [Xcode](https://www.g2.com/products/xcode/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (993 reviews) - [Ranorex Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/ranorex-studio/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (243 reviews)