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Loadster vs Gatling: catalog facts
Loadster	Gatling
Freemium Free to start testing, with paid plans for larger tests.	Freemium The Community Edition is free and open source; Enterprise Edition is a paid hosted service…
Web	Web, Command line
Choice of real browsers, HTTP bots or Playwright scripts Runs from 32 cloud regions	Open-source Community Edition you can run on your own machines Load tests are written as code and can be kept in version control
Cloud service only, not self-hostable Large tests require a paid plan	Writing tests as code assumes programming experience Advanced analysis and tracing are only in the paid Enterprise Edition
Hosted service	Downloadable app, Hosted service
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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