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blackfire.io vs. SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
blackfire.io
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Blackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow. The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web…N/A
SoapUI Open Source
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SoapUI is an open source API testing tool supported by SmartBear's community, supporting functional and performance testing of APIs.N/A
Pricing
blackfire.ioSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
blackfire.ioSoapUI Open Source
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
blackfire.ioSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Considered Both Products
blackfire.io
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
Chose blackfire.io
The pricing offered by blackfire.io was highly competitive and customisable as we opted for pay per use pricing model. Initial setup was very easy. The support team provided us with the detailed demo of the product and helped with the initial integration and setup. We already …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose blackfire.io
blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a …
SoapUI Open Source
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SoapUI Open Source
SoapUI Open Source is free, which is good for light use or simple things here and there. There is a Pro version that makes things more user-friendly. I also like that custom code can also be used for doing more complicated tasks.
I like that SoapUI can have a process/flow …
Chose SoapUI Open Source
Compared to SoapUI, we have been using "light" tools like RestClient extension in Firefox, or Postman.

Compared to Postman, SoapUI is more simple for WSDL / SOAP webservices, as SoapUI generate all envelop, but Postman does not.
Ajay Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ajay Kumar
Software Developer
Chose SoapUI Open Source
Every application has its own features and UI design but SoapUI is also very good at testing. All features are awesome.
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User Ratings
blackfire.ioSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
blackfire.ioSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
blackfire.io is best suited for any company that has a development team managing code releases into different environments. This tool is crucial in cases where there are codebase changes or upgrades and it really helps in load testing and code validity. With every new codebase release there could be a risk of how it affects the infrastructure supporting it so blackfire.io helps report on those metrics.
Verified User
Anonymous
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If you are making system upgrade project and you have existing system working and you want to imitate messages that are going in production but without making any data loads or switch it’s very suitable and convenient software. It serves well in manual test scenarios but wouldn’t be as good in case of mass tests.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources
  • Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks
  • Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • SOAP
  • REST
  • Authentication
JD
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Cons
  • They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles
  • Customer service needs a lot of improvement
  • The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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  • I actually like SoapUI as it is, I have not found things to improve, except for the speed of response is very complex services.
Abraham García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abraham García
Web Development Manager
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Alternatives Considered
The pricing offered by blackfire.io was highly competitive and customisable as we opted for pay per use pricing model. Initial setup was very easy. The support team provided us with the detailed demo of the product and helped with the initial integration and setup. We already had tried our free version as well and the results looked good. So opted for blackfire.io
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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SoapUI Open Source is free, which is good for light use or simple things here and there. There is a Pro version that makes things more user-friendly. I also like that custom code can also be used for doing more complicated tasks. I like that SoapUI can have a process/flow (conditional/loop/waits/etc.) set up for scripting purposes, which is good for beginners and light users. However, I think the user interface has room for improvement.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers
  • 2x decrease in load time for the website
  • 100% performance validation before production release
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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  • Testing resolves most of the issues in the development phases.
  • User friendliness of the app makes it good.
  • Overall client happiness depends on the clean project, which is possible by testing.
Ajay Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ajay Kumar
Software Developer
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