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Runscope

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Ranked in API Monitoring Tools·Free trial·paid from $79/mo

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Runscope is ranked #16 of 27 in API monitoring tools on Inferse. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $79/mo.

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Paid from
$79/morunscope.com
Check frequency
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Response assertions
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Multi-region checks
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Private locations
Yesrunscope.com
Incident workflows
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Facts

Current positioning
The Runscope homepage says API Monitoring is now available through BlazeMeter.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
What it does
Runscope provides developers a place to monitor and manage APIs used in mobile and web applications.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
API tests
An API test is one or more sequential HTTP requests, with assertions and variables available for validating and passing data between steps.help.blazemeter.com · 3 Oct 2026
Monitoring locations
API Monitoring can run tests in the cloud or behind a firewall against public or private APIs.help.blazemeter.com · 3 Oct 2026
Validation features
Tests can assert response time, JSON or XML content, HTTP headers, status codes, and response bodies.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Workflow features
The product supports chained requests, dynamic data, reusable checks across local, staging, and production environments, and imports from Swagger or OpenAPI formats.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Alerts
The documentation lists email, webhook, PagerDuty, and Slack notifications for completed or failed test runs.help.blazemeter.com · 3 Oct 2026
Integrations
The product page names Jenkins, Slack, HipChat, PagerDuty, Datadog, Splunk, and New Relic Insights integrations.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Private API access
The product page says an on-premises agent can monitor private APIs and supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Enterprise features
The enterprise page lists role-based access control, SAML single sign-on, an SLA option, custom support, and a dedicated account manager.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Support
BlazeMeter support hours are listed as 6 AM–5 PM PST, Monday through Friday; Unleashed customers can submit tickets through the support portal.help.blazemeter.com · 3 Oct 2026
Security
Runscope’s terms say it uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards, while noting that it cannot guarantee those measures will never be defeated.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Audience
The Runscope about page describes its mission as building tools for API, infrastructure, and developer experience teams supporting modern application development.runscope.com · 3 Oct 2026
Product status
The Runscope homepage says API Monitoring (Runscope) is now part of BlazeMeter.runscope.com · 4 Oct 2026
Purpose
API Monitoring evaluates API performance from the API consumer point of view and monitors uptime and correctness.help.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Test model
An API test consists of one or more HTTP requests executed sequentially, with assertions and variables available for test steps.help.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Test locations
Tests can run from the cloud or behind a firewall against public or private APIs.help.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Imports
The Small API plan lists OpenAPI (Swagger) import and Postman import.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Trial
The Runscope homepage offers a free trial, but does not state its length.runscope.com · 4 Oct 2026
Free tier
The pricing page lists a Free Starter plan with 1,000 API Monitoring and API Functional Testing runs per month (12k per year).blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Payment security
The pricing page says credit card information is sent over SSL to its PCI-certified payments provider and is not stored on its servers or databases.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Intended users
The product page describes the API testing and monitoring platform as designed for development and QA teams.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026
Run automation
The product page says teams can run API tests automatically in CI/CD pipelines and monitor live APIs in production.blazemeter.com · 4 Oct 2026

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