Performance Issues — Products Ranked
Which products are the slowest and buggiest? Speed, downtime, and technical issues ranked.
302 complaints across 156 products
Android Studio
•Gradle builds are painfully slow
•Extremely high RAM usage
•Emulator is slow and laggy
+4 more
RubyMine
•Extremely high memory consumption
•100% CPU usage without visible activity
•Slow startup, indexing, and shutdown
+3 more
Adobe After Effects
•After Effects 2025 dramatically slower than previous versions
•Rendering times taking hours for short videos
•Excessive RAM consumption causes crashes
+2 more
PhpStorm
•Extremely high memory consumption
•Slow indexing and re-indexing
•Multiple projects cause severe slowdowns
+2 more
GoLand
•High RAM and CPU consumption
•Slow import autocomplete
•Slower startup time than editors
+2 more
Xcode
•Massive storage requirements
•Indexing makes Xcode unusably slow
•Simulator is painfully slow and laggy
+2 more
Leonardo.ai
•Anatomical errors like extra hands persist
•Video generation produces distorted results
•Character consistency across poses still unreliable
+2 more
Riverside
•Constant freezing disrupts recordings
•Severe lag during panel discussions
•Upload times exceed 24 hours despite claims
+1 more
JetBrains IntelliJ
•High RAM usage causes system slowdown
•Frequent indexing freezes the IDE
•Slow startup compared to lightweight editors
+1 more
WebStorm
•Extremely high memory consumption
•Slow startup and indexing times
•IDE freezes during code editing
+1 more
PyCharm
•Extremely high RAM consumption
•Slow startup and indexing times
•IDE freezes and lagging issues
+1 more
CockroachDB
•Resource intensive - high CPU, memory, and storage consumption
•Not suitable for analytics or OLAP workloads
•Single-region performance trails PostgreSQL
+1 more
Meilisearch
•Service jams with large datasets (30M+ docs)
•Indexing falls behind by 30-50 minutes on updates
•Only searches first 100k of 1M+ records
+1 more
Chroma
•Not designed for production scale (1M+ vectors)
•Memory constraints - index must fit in RAM
•Metadata filters hang on 20M+ chunks
+1 more
DALL-E
•GPT Image outputs are dull compared to DALL-E 3
•Quality decline with smudged and blurred outputs
•Poor text rendering despite being 'best in class'
+1 more
Stable Diffusion
•Requires expensive GPU with 8-24GB VRAM
•Flux has overtaken SD3.5 in quality
•Hands and anatomy still generate with errors
+1 more
Runway
•AI misunderstands prompts and produces irrelevant clips
•Video quality inconsistent and often unusable
•All videos come out silent requiring post-production
+1 more
Pika
•Results are a complete lottery - inconsistent quality
•AI ignores prompts and changes specified elements
•Faces and hands often look distorted or off
+1 more
Postman
•App extremely slow and unresponsive - takes 14+ seconds to start
•Memory hog - CPU constantly spiking at 50-60%
•Freezes and crashes with large collections
Supabase
•Egress costs stack fast - small apps jump from $25 to $100+
•Database hits connection limits as user base grows
•Edge Functions cold starts and execution limits
InVision
•Failed to innovate against Figma
•Slow performance with large projects
•InVision Studio lacked critical features
Abstract
•Extremely slow syncing and file operations
•Sketch becomes incredibly slow when Abstract is installed
•Resource-heavy Mac app consumes significant system resources
Adobe Premiere Pro
•Export times drastically slower in 2025 version
•Timeline playback lag and stuttering
•Requires high-end hardware to run smoothly
DaVinci Resolve
•Frequent crashes and freezes
•Hardware demands are excessive
•4K footage doesn't run smoothly without proxies
Final Cut Pro
•Library corruption and preference file issues
•Massive disk space consumption
•Frame dropping and stuttering with 10-bit HEVC
Kapwing
•Export failures on complex videos
•Browser-based lag and freezing
•Processing slows during peak hours
Snapseed
•App freezes when editing RAW photos
•Photos don't open or freeze when selecting
•Saved photos show corrupted colors and corners
Procreate
•Layer limits based on iPad RAM frustrate complex projects
•Apple Pencil lag on some iPad models
•App crashes and freezes lose unsaved work
Cinema 4D
•Slow rendering with complex scenes
•High hardware requirements strain budgets
•Viewport performance degrades with many objects
VS Code
•High memory usage and lag with extensions
•Struggles with large monorepo projects
•Slow search on large projects
JetBrains Rider
•Excessive memory consumption
•UI freezing and hangs
•Slow startup and indexing
DataGrip
•High RAM consumption (2GB+ just to stay open)
•Very slow with many databases
•Data source loading takes too long
GitLab
•Notoriously slow performance
•CI/CD pipelines slow without proper optimization
•Self-hosted instances require significant resources
Tabnine
•Glitchy behavior and frequent logouts
•High memory usage on large codebases
•Slower innovation than competitors
CodeSandbox
•Slow performance on larger projects
•Slower startup than StackBlitz
•Browser runs heavy and requires disk space
Upstash
•REST API adds latency vs TCP connections
•Slow query performance reported by some users
•Scaling during peak loads presents challenges
Typesense
•High RAM requirements - data must fit in memory
•Indexing only 65-100K docs/minute on large datasets
•Struggles with real-time frequent updates
Weaviate
•Performance degrades at scale (18M+ objects)
•Memory usage grows heavily with data
•gRPC timeout errors during batch imports
Qdrant
•Slow startup with large collections
•Initial ingestion hiccups at large scale
•gRPC slower than REST with payloads
ChatGPT
•GPT-5 quality feels like a downgrade
•Slow and laggy responses especially on GPT-4/5
•Coding ability feels downgraded since GPT-5
ElevenLabs
•Voice randomly switches languages or accents mid-sentence
•Voice cloning sounds 'horrifically fake' without pro audio
•Voice tone inconsistent across sessions
Jira
•Painfully slow with multi-second page loads
•Third-party plugins cause thread exhaustion
Close
•New lead page update caused productivity drop
•Call quality issues with slowness and voice distortion
Copper
•Email sync problems link messages to wrong contacts
•System slows down significantly with larger databases
Figma
•Large files cause severe performance issues and crashes
•Prototypes have extremely long load times
Airtable
•50,000 record limit per base blocks growth
•Database slows to crawl with complex formulas
Miro
•Large boards become extremely laggy and slow
•Uses excessive RAM, long launching times
Hotjar
•Website slows down by 500ms-1 second after install
•Ad blockers break site functionality when Hotjar installed
Vercel
•Serverless function timeouts at high load
•Cache invalidation problems scaling Next.js
Netlify
•Serverless function timeout of 10 seconds is too restrictive
•Deployment speed slower than Vercel and competitors
Zeplin
•Slow performance with large workspaces
•Frequent software update interruptions
Adobe Photoshop
•Severe lag with large files and many layers
•High system requirements exclude older hardware
Adobe Illustrator
•Severe lag and slowdowns after 2025/2026 updates
•High memory and resource consumption
InShot
•Video quality compressed despite HD input
•Heavy storage drain and memory issues
CapCut
•App crashes and freezes during editing
•Phone lag and storage issues after use
Adobe Lightroom
•Extreme slowness with large catalogs
•AI features consume excessive resources
Inkscape
•Severe slowdowns with complex or large files
•Mac version significantly slower than Linux
Blender
•Performance degrades with complex scenes
•New EEVEE slower than legacy in some cases
3ds Max
•Heavy software requiring expensive hardware
•Long render times for animation/games
Godot
•3D graphics trail Unity and Unreal significantly
•Physics engine is under-optimized
Atom
•Frequent freezing and performance issues
•High resource consumption for a text editor
MongoDB Atlas
•Query performance can be sluggish
•Consumes more storage than relational databases
Neon
•Cold starts affect user experience
•Serverless driver slower than direct Postgres
Elasticsearch
•Shard management problems at scale
•Indexing lag and merge storms under load
Anthropic Claude
•Quality degrades during 'high capacity' - concise mode
•Claude 'got dumbed down' - viral Reddit sentiment
Google Gemini
•Context window glitches with long conversations
•Coding assistance enters infinite error loops
Mistral AI
•Reasoning model gets stuck in infinite loops
•Codestral struggles with multi-file coordination
Midjourney
•Bad anatomy in hands, teeth, and complex poses
•GPU queue times reach 40+ minutes on busy days