Gatling
A load testing tool for web applications and APIs, with an open-source edition and hosted enterprise platform.
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About Gatling
Gatling generates simulated traffic against web applications and APIs so you can measure how they behave under load. The Community Edition is open source and can be downloaded and run yourself. Tests are written as code, which suits teams that keep load tests alongside the rest of their project.
Gatling Enterprise Edition is a hosted platform built around the same engine. It adds AI-based analysis, CI/CD automation, distributed tracing, failure diagnosis and an MCP server so coding agents can drive it. It is sold through a sales team, with a free trial available.
Strengths
- Open-source Community Edition you can run on your own machines
- Load tests are written as code and can be kept in version control
- Enterprise edition adds CI/CD automation and result analysis
Limitations
- Writing tests as code assumes programming experience
- Advanced analysis and tracing are only in the paid Enterprise Edition
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumThe Community Edition is free and open source; Enterprise Edition is a paid hosted service with a free trial.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Gatling
- Platforms
- Web, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- Developers and performance engineers load testing web apps and APIs
- Categories
- API clients, Developer tools, Website testing
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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