NeoLoad vs autocannon

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Free and open source

Enterprise licensing by peak virtual users, negotiated annually.

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

Free edition limited to a small number of virtual users.

Everything, self-hosted

Established

Tricentis · since 2005

Established

OSS community · since 2016

• Handles enterprise protocols such as SAP GUI and Citrix that open-source tools cannot.
• APM correlation makes root-cause analysis much faster than latency graphs alone.
• Both GUI design and as-code authoring, so mixed-skill teams can share a suite.

• Zero configuration; useful output in seconds.
• Good percentile reporting for such a small tool.
• Scriptable from Node for micro-benchmarks in CI.

• Expensive, with a procurement-scale sales process.
• Overkill for a straightforward web or API workload.
• Proprietary scripts do not port to other tools.

• Single endpoint only — no user journeys, no correlation, no think time.
• No distributed execution.
• HTTP/1.1 focused.

Large enterprises performance-testing SAP, Citrix or Oracle estates.

Quick endpoint benchmarks and micro-optimisation work.