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Gatling vs autocannon: catalog facts
Gatling	autocannon
Freemium The Community Edition is free and open source; Enterprise Edition is a paid hosted service…	Free Free and open source.
Web, Command line	Command line
Open-source Community Edition you can run on your own machines Load tests are written as code and can be kept in version control	Quick to run from the command line against any URL Can also be used programmatically from Node.js
Writing tests as code assumes programming experience Advanced analysis and tracing are only in the paid Enterprise Edition	Tests HTTP/1.1 only Requires Node.js to be installed
Downloadable app, Hosted service	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is 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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