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Taurus vs Artillery: catalog facts
Taurus	Artillery
Free Free and open source.	Freemium The CLI is open source; Artillery Cloud has a free sign-up with paid options.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Web, Command line
One YAML format for several test tools Reuses existing JMeter scripts	Load testing and Playwright E2E testing in one toolkit Can run on your own AWS or Azure infrastructure
Command line only Depends on the underlying tools such as JMeter	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: Apache-2.0	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 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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