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Artillery vs Locust: catalog facts
Artillery	Locust
Freemium The CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.	Free Free and open source; paid support is available separately from Locust.cloud.
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	Test scenarios written as ordinary Python code Distributed runs across multiple machines
Reporting dashboard features belong to the hosted cloud service Turbo runner for Playwright is still in beta	Requires writing Python to define tests Documentation is focused mainly on HTTP testing
Downloadable app, Hosted service	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MPL-2.0	License not stated
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 September 23, 2026

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