TL;DR - Artillery
- Artillery is a modern load testing toolkit for developers and DevOps teams
- It runs performance tests against APIs and web apps with scenario-based scripting
- Free open-source version, Pro from $49/month
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Pricing Plans
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Free
Free
Open source
- Load testing
- YAML config
- Plugins
Pro
$99/month
Teams
- Cloud runs
- Dashboards
- Team features
About Artillery
Artillery tests your backend under load before real users do. Define scenarios that simulate realistic traffic patterns, then watch how your system responds when thousands of virtual users hit it simultaneously.
Write tests in YAML or JavaScript. Run from your laptop or scale to massive distributed tests in the cloud. Detailed reports show latency distributions, not just averages.
Engineering teams use Artillery to catch performance problems in staging instead of discovering them in production during a launch.
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Artillery FAQ
Artillery Core is open source and free. Artillery Pro cloud service starts at $99/month. Enterprise pricing for advanced features and support.
Artillery is a load testing and performance testing tool. Test HTTP, WebSocket, Socket.io, and more. Write scenarios in YAML, run from command line.
Both are modern load testing tools. k6 uses JavaScript for scenarios. Artillery uses YAML with optional JS. k6 has more scripting power; Artillery is more approachable.
HTTP APIs, WebSocket connections, Socket.io, GraphQL, and custom protocols via plugins. Good for API and real-time application testing.
Install via npm, write scenarios in YAML, run from CLI. Can run locally or use Artillery Pro for distributed cloud testing. Results in JSON or HTML reports.