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 TrialOpen Source
Free
Self-hosted
- Unlimited VUs locally
- Full feature set
- CLI tool
- JavaScript scripting
Most Popular
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.
