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Cypress vs Artillery: catalog facts
Cypress	Artillery
Freemium The Cypress App is free and open source; hosted Cypress Cloud features are paid.	Freemium The CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Web, Command line
Tests run in a real browser with step-by-step replay End-to-end and component testing in one tool	Load testing and Playwright E2E testing in one toolkit Can run on your own AWS or Azure infrastructure
Tests are written in JavaScript or TypeScript Some AI and collaboration features belong to paid services	Reporting dashboard features belong to the hosted cloud service Turbo runner for Playwright is still in beta
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MPL-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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