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Best PerfView Alternatives in 2026

Taken from Profiling Software, where PerfView is listed too, in the same order.

  1. 1

    Blackfire.io

    Blackfire.io is a cloud platform for monitoring, profiling, testing, alerting, recommendations, browser monitoring, and analytics for PHP and Python applications.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.0 Club score
  2. 2

    Javadoc

    Javadoc generates HTML API documentation pages from Java source files and comes with the Java Development Kit (JDK).

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    7.9 Club score
  3. 3

    Scalene

    Scalene is a free, open-source profiler for Python programs.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    7.9 Club score
  4. 4

    YourKit Java Profiler

    YourKit Java Profiler profiles Java applications and servers locally or remotely during development, testing, and production.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.8 Club score
  5. 5

    Parca

    Parca is a free, open-source profiling system that continuously collects and stores CPU, memory, I/O, and other profiles for later querying.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.8 Club score
  6. 6

    YourKit .NET Profiler

    YourKit .NET Profiler analyzes CPU performance and memory use in .NET and .NET Core applications.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.8 Club score
  7. 7

    VisualVM

    VisualVM is a free standalone tool for troubleshooting Java applications in development and production.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.6 Club score
  8. 8

    Valgrind

    Valgrind is a free, open-source instrumentation framework for building tools that analyze programs for memory and threading errors and profile performance.

    • Free plan
    • macOS · Linux · Android
    7.5 Club score
  9. 9

    JProfiler

    JProfiler is a desktop profiler for Java and Kotlin applications running on the JVM.

    • Free trial
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.4 Club score
  10. 10

    Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

    Amazon CodeGuru Profiler collects runtime performance data from live applications to help teams find CPU bottlenecks and improve performance.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.3 Club score
  11. 11

    JetBrains dotMemory

    JetBrains dotMemory profiles memory in .NET software to help investigate leaks, memory consumption, garbage collection, and allocation behavior.

    • Free trial
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.3 Club score
  12. 12

    AMD Auto-Detect and Install Tool

    AMD Auto-Detect and Install Tool checks a Windows PC for its AMD Radeon graphics hardware, AMD Ryzen chipset and Windows version, then fetches drivers for the detected…

    • Free plan
    • Windows
    7.3 Club score
  13. 13

    Intel VTune Profiler

    Intel VTune Profiler analyzes application and system performance to help developers locate bottlenecks across AI, HPC, cloud, IoT, media, and storage workloads.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · Linux · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  14. 14

    Node.js --prof

    Node.js --prof is a free command-line option for generating V8 profiler output from Node.js programs.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  15. 15

    py-spy

    py-spy is a free, MIT-licensed sampling profiler for Python programs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.2 Club score
  16. 16

    Polar Signals Cloud

    Polar Signals Cloud is a hosted service for storing and analyzing continuous profiling data.

    • Free trial
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  17. 17

    Pyroscope

    Pyroscope is a profiling tool for examining CPU, memory and thread use in applications.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    7.2 Club score
  18. 18

    async-profiler

    async-profiler is a free, self-hosted sampling profiler for Java that measures performance while avoiding safepoint bias.

    • Free plan
    • macOS · Linux · API
    7.1 Club score
  19. 19

    JetBrains dotTrace

    JetBrains dotTrace is a desktop performance profiler for .NET applications.

    • Free trial
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.1 Club score
  20. 20

    Google Cloud Profiler

    Google Cloud Profiler helps teams find resource-intensive code in production applications by collecting CPU usage and memory allocation data and connecting it to source…

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.0 Club score

The whole list: Profiling Software