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k6 Pricing in 2026

Plans, hidden costs, and alternatives compared

Is k6 worth the price?

9/10

k6 open source is excellent for load testing.

Grafana Cloud k6 adds convenience with reasonable pricing.

Pricing Plans

Free Trial

Open Source

Free

Self-hosted

  • Unlimited VUs locally
  • Full feature set
  • CLI tool
  • JavaScript scripting
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Grafana Cloud Free

Free

Cloud hosted

  • 500 VUh/month
  • 14-day retention
  • Basic reporting
  • Up to 50 concurrent VUs

Pro

$0.15/per VUh

Plus base plan

  • 30-day retention
  • Advanced reporting
  • 8×5 support
  • Higher limits

Enterprise

$25,000/year minimum

Volume pricing

  • Volume discounts
  • Custom SLA
  • Dedicated support
  • Custom retention

Hidden Costs & Gotchas

Browser-based tests 10x cost

Enterprise minimum $25K/year

Which Plan Do You Need?

Developers

DevOps teams

Performance engineers

CI/CD pipelines

Our Recommendation

startup

Use open source locally or free cloud tier. Pay only for large-scale tests.

enterprise

Enterprise for volume discounts and SLA.

How k6 Compares to Competitors

Locust is also free/open source. JMeter is free but heavier. k6 is most developer-friendly.

Alternatives to k6