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Artillery vs autocannon: catalog facts
Artillery	autocannon
Freemium The CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.	Free Free and open source.
Web, Command line	Command line
Load testing and Playwright E2E testing in one toolkit Can run on your own AWS or Azure infrastructure	Quick to run from the command line against any URL Can also be used programmatically from Node.js
Reporting dashboard features belong to the hosted cloud service Turbo runner for Playwright is still in beta	Tests HTTP/1.1 only Requires Node.js to be installed
Downloadable app, Hosted service	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MPL-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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