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Artillery vs Cypress: catalog facts
Artillery	Cypress
Freemium The CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.	Freemium The Cypress App is free and open source; hosted Cypress Cloud features are paid.
Web, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Load testing and Playwright E2E testing in one toolkit Can run on your own AWS or Azure infrastructure	Tests run in a real browser with step-by-step replay End-to-end and component testing in one tool
Reporting dashboard features belong to the hosted cloud service Turbo runner for Playwright is still in beta	Tests are written in JavaScript or TypeScript Some AI and collaboration features belong to paid services
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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