Artillery
Artillery: A flexible performance testing platform spanning APIs, browsers, WebSockets, and distributed execution. Ranked #16 of 37 in Performance Testing Software by our editors (7.8/10); pricing: Free plan; best for teams testing APIs, browsers, and WebSockets.
At a glance
- Editor score7.8 / 10
- PricingFree plan
- Best forTeams testing APIs, browsers, and WebSockets
- Free planYes
- Paid from$199/mo
- Load testingYes
- Facts checked21 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Tests HTTP, WebSocket, Socket.IO, and Playwright browser workloads
- Runs distributed tests through AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Azure
- Connects with CI/CD, observability tools, dashboards, and cloud reports
Where it doesn't
- Free plan limits teams to 30 reports and 30-minute tests monthly
- Paid plans start at $199 per month
- The broad feature set may exceed the needs of basic API testing
Our verdict on Artillery
Artillery is a performance testing platform for developers, QA engineers, and SRE teams. Its CLI supports load and stress testing for APIs, web applications, and network services across HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.IO. Playwright-based browser load testing adds coverage for user-facing workflows, while custom JavaScript, phases, loops, and conditionals support more detailed virtual-user scenarios. Teams can run it on web, Windows, macOS, Linux, through an API, or in self-hosted environments.
Pricing is structured as a free tier and two paid monthly plans. Free includes 30 reports per month, one month of data retention, up to five distributed workers per test, a 30-minute test duration, and 25 test cases per report. Team costs $199 per month and raises those limits to 1,000 reports, six months of retention, up to 25 workers, two-hour tests, and 50 test cases per report. Business costs $499 per month and includes 2,500 reports, 18 months of retention, no stated distributed-worker or test-duration limit, and unlimited test cases per report. The published pricing page also states that annual subscriptions save 20%.
Its main advantage is breadth across testing, execution, and analysis. Distributed tests can run through AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, or Azure Container Instances, with cloud dashboards, collaboration features, automatic Web Vitals collection, and trace recording for failing browser-test virtual users. Integrations include GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Honeycomb, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, InfluxDB, and StatsD. Artillery fits teams that need one tool for API, browser, and network-service performance work. Teams seeking only lightweight, occasional API checks may prefer a narrower tool.
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Artillery fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | $199/mo |
| Load testing | Yes |
| Stress testing | Yes |
| Browser-based testing | Yes |
| Distributed load | Yes |
| API testing | Yes |
| Deployment model | Hybrid |
| Max virtual users | Not verified |
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted |
| Platforms | Web, Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Compliance & security | SSO/SAML, 2FA |
| Support | Email, Community, Docs |
| Built for | Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 19 integrations: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, Lightstep … See all → |
| Pricing | Free plan (source) |
| Website | artillery.io |
| Facts checked | 21 Sep 2026 |
Artillery integrations
Artillery lists 19 integrations on its own site.
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- New Relic
- Splunk
- Honeycomb
- Lightstep
- AWS CloudWatch
- InfluxDB
- StatsD
- Mixpanel
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- AWS CodeBuild
- CircleCI
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- VS Code
- PostHog
- Tracetest
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Alternatives to Artillery
- Grafana k6A scriptable performance testing tool with local, distributed, browser, and hosted execution.9.3
- OpenText Core Performance EngineeringA broad hybrid performance-testing suite for enterprise web, API, and mobile workloads.9.2
- Apache JMeterA free, established choice for protocol-level load, stress, API, and distributed testing.9.1
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