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Artillery vs Taurus: catalog facts
ArtilleryTaurus
Freemium

The CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.

Free

Free and open source.

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
  • One YAML format for several test tools
  • Reuses existing JMeter scripts
  • Reporting dashboard features belong to the hosted cloud service
  • Turbo runner for Playwright is still in beta
  • Command line only
  • Depends on the underlying tools such as JMeter
Downloadable app, Hosted service Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MPL-2.0 License: Apache-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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