# Prefix Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Prefix the right Application Development solution for you? Explore 29 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/300585/Stackify-Prefix/reviews --- Prefix 4.7 (29) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/300585/Stackify-Prefix/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated December 13th, 2025 # Reviews of Prefix Ease of use 4.7 Customer Service 4.6 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 29 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Scott W. Systems Architect Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Quick insights and easy setup" December 16, 2016 5.0 Prefix allows us a quick view of how all of our web apis are behaving and if there any unexpected errors or performance issues we need to address. Using it in conjunction with ReTrace provides even deeper insights without slowing down our production code. Pros Easy to setup and use. Cons Getting detailed logging can sometimes take playing around with your config settings to get the ideal results. Review Source Michael M. Software Developer Individual & Family Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Awesome product bugs beware" December 20, 2016 5.0 This is by far the most wonderful bug tracking and fixing tool I have ever used. I helped solve a lot of performance issue in my project and meet my deadlines Review Source PM Patrick M. Senior Software Developer Publishing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy to use and help me in identifying issue in our applications" December 16, 2016 4.0 I have been using prefix for awhile now and issues it identifies are spot on. It has helped me so much in writing better code hy reducing how many calls to our database i was making and help me identify exactly why a few pages where taking so long to load. It is a great product and i am looking forward to seeing what stackify comes up with next. Pros Easy to use and clearly shows you exactly where any issue may be happening Cons When new updates cone out i have had to renstall the product instead of just an upgrade Review Source John H. Senior Information Technology Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Awesomeness" December 22, 2016 5.0 By far one of the best and easiest to use profiling tools I've ever used. Most of the other tools are either to hard to setup or don't give me what I want. Prefix shows me exactly what I need to see on one screen, exceptions, SQL queries from EF, load times. It has become a tool I use daily for software development Pros Easy to setup Easy to use and understand Pretty much all the info I need to debug and tune my apps Cons None that I can think of Review Source Emre S. Software Developer Internet Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "A great, non-intrusive profiler" May 30, 2017 5.0 Pros Just use it out-of-box. Without additional configuration or whatsoever, it tells you more than you need. Great tool to measure query times, inspect memory leaks, hidden exceptions. Cons Stack trace is already good now but it think guys behind this awesome product can do better in that area. UI filter can be improved a little as well. Review Source Ben B. Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Extremely valuable free tool for .Net devs" December 15, 2016 5.0 Within 60 seconds of using Prefix I discovered a nested loop that was performing over 100 DB calls that I was completely unaware of. This was after 3 different senior devs had already attempted to optimize the exact code in question for performance. I was instantly sold on the product. Pros Quick to discover problem areas in running code. Free. Quick to install. New features being added rapidly. Cons Sometimes it's a little confusing when the prefix icon appears in the system toolbar (on windows) if prefix is really running and taking up a lot of resources or if it's just in a sort-of idle mode. Review Source Lincoln Q. Arquiteto de Soluções Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Very easy to install and configure" August 29, 2017 5.0 Pros You start to profile you application within seconds. You can find exactly what you searching for. Profile database times, ORM times and all other stufs that matters. Review Source Adrian T. Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "my goto tool to debug sql and mvc" December 6, 2017 5.0 Pros So easy to set up and works instantly, Haven't found a single issue as of yet that would make me think negative about it. Review Source Nikolas R. Senior Developer Public Relations and Communications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Slick, smooth and easy to use" December 21, 2016 4.0 I've been using Stackify's Prefix offering to help identify bottlenecks in both new and legacy websites. The ability to see SQL queries along with the various web requests is an absolute god send. When you find that request that should be using a cache but is smashing the database, those problems get solved so easily with Stackify Pros It's ease of set up. Getting up and running is (almost) as simple as install and go. Cons Sometimes the Visual Studio integration can be tricky to get to work. I'm yet to try profiling custom code with it. Review Source Julien M. Développeur Xamarin (iOS/Android/Windows) Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best profile tool" December 16, 2016 5.0 A must have tool to profile asp.net application. Be able to check how many SQL requests are made to database and check what are they is a real pros ! (Entity framework generate some mess sometime) Pros Profiling by requests SQL requests Cons Partial dotnetcore support Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Awesome Tool" December 17, 2016 5.0 Prefix is a great tool which has helped pick up issues before I knew there was issues! Its not intrusive and will sit quietly monitoring while I run everything locally, it also has a great UI and makes me look around 43% smarter when its on my second screen :). Review Source JI Jahiezer I. Desarrollador Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best option to identify problems in a easy way" June 13, 2018 5.0 Pros Its the most useful tool right now in he market to identify and solve a troubleshoot. Intuitive system, easy to use. Way to faster and easy to instal than others software. Reallly quick feedback loops. Cons I cant think one, really love it. However, i know everything can be better, in my personal opinion, maybe let software be more free to take automaticas decisions can be nice Review Source YK Yavuz K. Senior Software Developer Paper & Forest Products Used the software for: ### "Excellent Tool" December 16, 2016 5.0 Excellent tool for finding bugs and bottlenecks in .NET web applications. You can easily find out what is slowing down your application and improve it. Pros Easy to use. Provides very detailed log. Cons Making it work after installation is a bit tricky. Review Source Geovanny A. Senior Full Stack .NET Developer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "null" February 22, 2018 5.0 Review Source WV Werner V. Consultant Used the software for: ### "Was up and running in under five minutes are immediately saw performance issues!" May 3, 2016 5.0 I was tasked with improving the performance on web API calls for a particular project that seemed "slow". After doing the usual performance analysis with Visual Studio, I was reaching for Glimpse and stumbled upon Prefix so decided to give it a go since it required no additional dependencies in the project. Prefix quickly highlighted that there were hundreds of database calls for a single web method call, something that didn't show up in the standard performance analysis tools. This was very obvious from the summary icons so any developers could have identified this. The problem was a component that populated a string lookup from the database in the constructor and was not set to be a singleton in the dependency injector container. Almost everything used this and as the type was resolved/injected it would hit the database each time instead of using a singleton. This simple fix literally cut the web method call time in half making me look like an instant hero! Review Source RS Ravi S. Technology Specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great Tool for the developer" May 3, 2018 5.0 Pros \* Lightweight \* Easy to setup \* Focused towards the things that matters. \* Easy breakdown of different tiers \* Database query capture Cons As per my requirement I didn't find any cons with the tool. . Review Source Hugh S. Web Developer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Useful" December 20, 2016 5.0 Really useful for tracking down performance issues in asp.net web applications. Lets you see interactions, database calls and so on in a nice simple timeline, and really go into detail where you need it. Review Source Kyle C. Used the software for: ### "null" March 7, 2017 5.0 Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great app for quick view of issues in IIS" October 29, 2018 5.0 Pros \- See all processes in a request stream, and breakdown of what is time consuming - I am using the free version. I may upgrade if I get too annoyed about commercials and want to see code snippets and suggestions (really nice features). But for now - happy with this incredible freemium. Cons Nothing so far. The freemium are limited in certain ways, but is to be expected. It may also be annoying for some that there are advertisements often... Review Source Tony L. Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "null" November 29, 2017 4.0 Review Source John W. Sr Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "null" February 20, 2018 2.0 Review Source TJ Taibe J. Senior Software Engineer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "null" November 13, 2017 5.0 Review Source Soumyadeep D. Senior Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "null" May 25, 2017 3.0 Review Source Sebastian Sebusæter E. Web Developer Sporting Goods Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "null" December 16, 2016 5.0 Review Source AF Anderson F. Sitecore Technical Team Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "null" December 4, 2018 5.0 Review Source Similar Products Featured