Artillery vs BlazeMeter

Free and open source

From $149 per month (indicative entry plan)

Open source and free, including distributed runs on your own AWS account. You pay AWS, not Artillery.

Priced by concurrent virtual users. Large enterprise tests are a substantial annual commitment.

Everything, self-hosted

Free tier with a small virtual-user cap and limited test duration.

Widely used

Artillery Software · since 2015

Widely used

Broadcom · since 2011

• Distributed load on your own AWS account, so no per-virtual-user vendor pricing at all.
• Reuses Playwright scripts for browser-level load without rewriting journeys.
• YAML for simple scenarios, JavaScript when you need real logic.

• Runs your existing open-source scripts unchanged — no migration cost.
• Global load generation from many regions without owning infrastructure.
• Reporting and trend analysis suited to handing results to management.

• Serverless distribution requires AWS knowledge and IAM setup.
• Reporting is basic without exporting to an observability platform.
• Smaller community than k6 or JMeter.

• Expensive relative to running the same open-source scripts on your own machines.
• Virtual-user pricing makes frequent large tests costly.
• Adds a vendor to a workflow that can function entirely on open source.

AWS-native teams that want large-scale load tests without vendor VU pricing.

Enterprises with existing JMeter estates that need scale and reporting without building it.