Loadster 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: Loadster
Rating: 5.0 (5 reviews)

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Overview

Loadster

5.0

(5)

Pricing

Starting at $97.00 per month

About Loadster

Loadster is a cloud-hybrid load testing tool for performance testing websites, web applications, and APIs. Record scripts in your browser with the Chrome or Firefox within various browsers like Chrome or Firefox using extensions, fine-tune them in the script editor, and then run your script with thousands of bots to see how your site performs under heavy load.

With Loadster, you can modify the test scenarios and increase or decrease load to simulate visitor traffic. The platform lets testers add, edit or remove steps from scripts and view HTTP requests and responses at every stage of the simulation. The collaboration functionality allows teams to create scripts, deploy tests, and share results. Additionally, managers can gain insights into response time, errors, and user performance via real-time reports, charts and graphs

Loadster supports integration with various third-party applications including PagerDuty, VictorOps, Opsgenie and Slack. Pricing includes pay-as-you-go Loadster Fuel as well as monthly/annual subscriptions. Support is through email, FAQs, and thorough online documentation.

Loadster Screenshots

Loadster Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $97.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$97.00

per user, per month

No plan information available

Loadster Features

Popular features found in Performance Testing
Load Scenarios
Load Testing
Testing Management
Testing Scripts
Web Testing
More features of Loadster
Activity Dashboard
API
Benchmarking
Bottleneck Identification
Browser Performance Metrics
Charting
Cloud Load Testing
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Monitoring
Parallel Testing
Performance Metrics
Performance Testing
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Regression Testing
Reporting/Analytics
Server Monitoring
Software Testing Management

Loadster Integrations

Slack

PagerDuty

Loadster User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

5.0

Have you used Loadster and would like to share your experience with others?

Pierre d.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

The perfect tool to load test your app.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

While migrating ScrapingBee out of Heroku we wanted to know how the new infra would react to the load. Simulating 400 users can be very resource-intensive and it would have been difficult to do it on our own machine. In Loadster it took me literally less than a minute. Using Loadster also allowed us to perfectly size our servers and we now know perfectly what are our bottlenecks what we will need to upgrade once we hit a certain usage threshold.

Cons:

One killer feature would be to compare multiple testing runs. Let's say I launch test A. Then tweak my app and launch test B, I'd love to be able to easily compare A and B regarding what I changed in the app.

Steve L.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2021

One of the few tools I thoroughly enjoy using

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A bloody great tool - the scripts are easy to write, and the reporting / alerting are excellent. Makes setting up load testing & monitoring straightforward and easily repeatable.

Cons:

Overall uptime reporting (e.g. monthly) isnt currently available :( However, the data is all available via API so you can roll your own.

Reasons for switching to Loadster

Loadster offers a huge benefit over JMeter purely because it is web based and therefore easy to manage - but also because it offers integrated 24/7 api monitoring using the same scripts, which would otherwise have to be separately set up & configured - saving us significant cost.

Christina L.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Reviewed January 2022

Invaluable tool for website load and performance testing!

We loved this application and what it provided for us. We will continue to use it for periodic testing of more specific updates and applications where performance and load testing are needed. I do expect we'll also continue to do benchmark testing several times a year to continue to monitor our production sites and how they perform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

This tool was super easy for us to get started with and use for a few items. Originally we used it to test out a emergency issue with our website and then we continued to use it to help us build new environments and when upgrading our website software. It gave us benchmarks to see that we were improving where we needed and helped us find areas that had issues. It also allowed us to feel confident that our site would handle the load of users it gets and more.

Cons:

I believe that we struggled only with getting to know more about how to use it and needing to do so very quickly. The learning curve to get going took a bit but given the ability the software has that was to be expected. I think we would have looked for some training tutorials if we had time. Also I think we struggled with how to test a development environment that isn't open to the public and not sure we solved being able to do that without opening somehow to the 'outside' web.

Verified

Reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Simple to use, powerful performance testing

Highly recommended, will be using again regularly in the future and it's added another tool to our belt!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The user experience is awesome. The billing is simple and straightforward - the Fuel Calculator made it easy to work out the required usage. The actual script setup is easy as pie and so intuitive. You download the chrome extension and it records the script instantly. The screenshots auto generate so you can check it's run properly and it can easily handle entering values into fields, clicking on buttons and navigating around the site. If you've never used a performance testing tool for traffic, this is the one to go for - it didn't take much clicking around to feel familiar with the Dashboard and it's capabilities.

Cons:

It's more suited to enterprise in terms of pricing as the minimum top up amount is $119 which is quite high, it would be great if there was a smaller package.

Reasons for choosing Loadster

Easier to setup and more user friendly.

Alexandru M.

Verified reviewer

Security and Investigations

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Reviewed January 2023

Loadster is Awesome !

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Clear and intuitive UI - I did not have to reach out for help or even trawl through docs, everything was self-explanatory- Good level of detail in the report - much needed to make sure the results are properly understood- Option to import from Postman (which is a good but relatively slow tool) - I literally let out a small moan of satisfaction when I saw this was an option- Good trial offering

Cons:

What's there to dislike ? Nothing !There is no such thing as perfect, but this hits the spot so well you might as well call it that !

Reasons for choosing Loadster

Because of all the reasons mentioned in this review.

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