Artillery

Load testing and Playwright end-to-end testing toolkit with an open-source CLI and an optional cloud dashboard.

FreemiumOpen sourceWebCommand line
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About Artillery

Artillery is a performance and reliability testing toolkit. The Artillery CLI runs load tests against websites, APIs and services and can also run Playwright end-to-end tests at scale, on Artillery's cloud runners or on your own AWS or Azure infrastructure.

Artillery Cloud adds a central dashboard for test results, Web Vitals tracking, traces and screenshots in reports, and a GitHub Actions integration that comments on pull requests. The CLI source is published on GitHub.

Strengths

  • Load testing and Playwright E2E testing in one toolkit
  • Can run on your own AWS or Azure infrastructure
  • GitHub Actions integration with PR comments

Limitations

  • Reporting dashboard features belong to the hosted cloud service
  • Turbo runner for Playwright is still in beta

Details

Pricing
FreemiumThe CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.
License
MPL-2.0
Developer
Artillery
Platforms
Web, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app, Hosted service
Account
Not required
Best suited for
Teams load testing web apps and APIs and running Playwright suites in CI
Last verified
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Provenance
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