{"id":7383,"date":"2020-08-14T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2020-08-14T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:47:34","slug":"free-load-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/free-load-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Load Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most load testing tools offer a free version. There are typically many limitations that companies put on you when they offer free load testing.  If you don&#8217;t like limitations, then you&#8217;ll probably want to check out RedLine13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Limitations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a common set of free load testing limitations that you&#8217;ll find on load testing subscriptions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Number of tests<\/li><li>Test duration<\/li><li>vCPUs  (for load test servers)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RedLine13 Free Load Testing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what RedLine has to say about those limitations on free load testing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Number of tests &#8211; <strong>unlimited<\/strong><\/li><li>Test duration &#8211; <strong>1 day<\/strong><\/li><li>vCPU &#8211; <strong>10 vCPUs<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at these limitations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number of tests<\/strong> &#8211; You can run an unlimited number of tests and RedLine13 charges you nothing! You&#8217;ll simply pay AWS directly for your AWS costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Test duration<\/strong> &#8211; We rarely see even our biggest customers run tests longer than one day. So that should hardly be a limitation for anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>vCPUs<\/strong> &#8211; Let&#8217;s look at what you can run with a limit of 10 vCPUs. An m3.medium is 1 vCPU. So you can run 10 m3.medium servers. A t3.large is 2 vCPUs. That means you could use 5 of them. An m5.xlarge is 4 vCPUs so you can run two of them. Any of those options give you a lot of processing power. Here&#8217;s a good post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/how-many-vcpus-needed-for-load-testing\/\">How many vCPUs needed for Load Testing?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be wondering about other limitations and whether they will be an issue for you. Here are some others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Virtual users &#8211; <strong>unlimited<\/strong><\/li><li>URL&#8217;s graphed per test &#8211; <strong>100<\/strong><\/li><li>Reporting features &#8211; <strong>unlimited<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, you see that RedLine13 does very little to limit you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be wondering if you would ever need a paid subscription. The key reason would be if you need more processing power than what 10 vCPUs provides. A Basic subscription gives you 50 vCPUs. If you need even more than that or you have a team of load testers, then a Premium subscription is for you. But for many load testers, a RedLine13 free subscription is perfectly fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/Service\">RedLine13<\/a>\u00a0for yourself for free. And know up front how much you can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most load testing tools offer a free version. 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Limitations Here is a common set of free load testing limitations that you&#8217;ll find on load testing subscriptions: Number of tests Test duration vCPUs (for load test servers) RedLine13 Free Load Testing Here is what RedLine has to say<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/free-load-testing\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35],"tags":[218],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-user","4":"post-7383","6":"format-standard","7":"category-blog","8":"category-load-testing","9":"post_tag-free-load-testing"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free Load Testing - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are many limitations that companies put on you when they offer free load testing. 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